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Near-Peer Mentoring Program for Sophomore Commuters
Let's Get Ready is a near-peer mentoring program that pairs sophomore students at Southern Connecticut State University, ages 18-24, with experienced student mentors. What’s a near-peer? It’s someone close in age and experience to you in the Let’s Get Ready program who can help you navigate college until you graduate.
How It Works
Let’s Get Ready’s college student coaches are available on your phone via text to answer your questions and to offer encouragement along the way. Let’s Get Ready also sends you weekly texts to remind you of important dates such as FAFSA renewal, class registration, and finals preparation or offering helpful suggestions on resume building, internships, and time management, or occasionally just checking in on how you are doing. So not only can you text us with questions, we will text you too!
Let’s Get Ready provides eligible Southern students with free college completion support through graduation. Services are led by near-peer college student coaches and are tailored to your college journey. Throughout your time with LGR, you’ll have lots of choices about how you engage with LGR college student coaches, including:
- Personalized one-on-one goal-setting, accountability, and encouragement from a current college student
- Mentoring relationship building with current college students who have been in your shoes
- Text-based completion support
- College re-enrollment support if you hit any bumps along the way
Benefits
- Assigned a real peer mentor, not a bot
- Text-based and flexible to your schedule – no meetings or phone calls are required
- Identify and address any academic, social, or financial barriers you may face
- Have a greater college experience to help you earn your Southern degree
- Free service
- Opt-out anytime
Let's Get Ready's Impact
Let’s Get Ready has served almost 3,000 Connecticut students since 2003. Connecticut-based students who have participated in Let’s Get Ready are outpacing their peers in college enrollment and graduation, matching national impact trends. Let's Get Ready is on pace to serve over 25,000 students nationally this year.
Sign Up Today
You must be a Southern sophomore commuter student between the ages 18-24. Opt-out anytime. Sign up and a member of the Let's Get Ready team will be in touch with you. If you are interested in learning more about Let’s Get Ready but have some questions, please let us know on the form or email us at icommutescsu@owls.outhernct.edu and we will reach out to you.
