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Learn more about the Advantage Testing Foundation, our unique educational partnerships, and our public service initiatives.

The Advantage Testing Foundation identifies and cultivates future leaders of every background. By forging strategic partnerships with leading universities and other distinguished institutions, we expand the opportunities of our nation’s extraordinary young people.

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Initiatives & Partnerships In partnering with preeminent universities and like-minded public service organizations, the Advantage Testing Foundation seeks to pool the outstanding academic resources already available in this nation and help direct them to where they are needed most.

Initiatives & Partnerships

TRIALS Program

The Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools

In 2009, the Advantage Testing Foundation launched Trials in partnership with Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law. Trials is the nation’s most selective full-scholarship pre-law program, preparing students of underrepresented socioeconomic backgrounds for admission to leading law schools. Trials students are selected on the basis of their compelling personal narratives, ability to overcome adversity, commitment to public service, and academic achievements. Trials scholars spend five weeks at Harvard Law School or the NYU School of Law to study logical reasoning, argumentation, critical reading, and essay writing with Advantage Testing instructors. Trials scholars are also awarded a $4,000 stipend on completion of the residency.

TRIALS SCHOLARS VITAL STATISTICS

• 50%+ first-generation college students • 80%+ underrepresented minorities • Median starting diagnostic LSAT score at the 40th percentile • Median official LSAT score at the 90th percentile • 150+ admissions to T14 law schools • 75+ admissions to Harvard Law School • Numerous NYU Root-Tilden Scholars and An-Bryce Scholars • Alumni include 1 Rhodes Scholar, 2 Rhodes Finalists, 4 Fulbright Scholars, 2 Soros Fellows, and 2 Marshall Scholars

PAST GUEST SPEAKERS INCLUDE

• John Manning, Dean of Harvard Law School • Trevor Morrison, Dean of NYU School of Law • Martha Minow, former Dean of Harvard Law School • Richard Revesz, former Dean of NYU School of Law

• John Sexton, former President of NYU and Dean of NYU School of Law • Robert Bordone, Founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation Clinic • Randall Kennedy, HLS Michael R. Klein Professor of Law • Hon. Jesse M. Furman, US District Court, Southern District of New York • Kristen Clarke, Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the US DOJ

FOR MORE INFORMATION trials.atfoundation.org

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Future Leaders in Law

A partnership with Harvard Law School and Paul, Weiss

Launched in 2023, the Future Leaders in Law Program prepares individuals primarily from first-generation and less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds to apply for admission to law schools around the nation. During a week-long residency at Harvard Law School, Future Leaders in Law Fellows engage with HLS faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Following the residency, Advantage Testing provides several months of rigorous LSAT instruction as well as academic and professional counseling. This full scholarship program covers all costs to participate, including transportation, lodging, instructional fees, and preparation materials. FLL also provides a $3,000 stipend for participating students, as well as need- based assistance for law school application fees, LSAC’s Credential Assembly Service reports, and LSAT administration fees.

FLL VITAL STATISTICS

• Students who completed six timed practice tests and review with Advantage Testing have increased their scores by an average of 41 percentile points.

FOR MORE INFORMATION hls.harvard.edu/professional-and-lifelong-learning/pre-law-programs/fu- ture-leaders-in-law-program/

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LEDA

Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America

Each summer, the Advantage Testing Foundation and Princeton University pool their resources to provide institutional, academic, and financial support to LEDA, a college access program widely recognized as the most successful in the nation. LEDA’s goal is to help underrepresented public high school students of modest means earn acceptance to and succeed at the nation’s leading colleges and universities.

LEDA SCHOLARS VITAL STATISTICS

• LEDA enrolls 100-150 high school juniors annually • Median household income of ~$30,000 • 51% of the most recent LEDA cohort will attend Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford • 69% of the most recent LEDA cohort was admitted to an Ivy League college, MIT, or Stanford • ~95% of all LEDA graduates have enrolled or currently enrolled in “Ivy League/Most Competitive,” “Highly Competitive,” or “Very Competitive” institutions (ranked by Barron’s ) • In 2014, LEDA participated in President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s first White House Summit on College Opportunities for Low Income Students.

FOR MORE INFORMATION www.ledascholars.org

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LEDA LEGAL

A partnership of LEDA, the AT Foundation, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and NYU School of Law

Launched in 2023, LEDA Legal is a scholarship program designed to expand the opportunities of underrepresented, low-income students who aspire to attend top-tier law schools. The program helps these high-achieving scholars explore legal careers, navigate the application process, and ultimately gain admission to the best law schools in the nation. Participants receive intensive preparation for law school, including rigorous LSAT preparation provided by the Advantage Testing Foundation and, along with additional support from LEDA, development of their law school applications. NYU School of Law, Harvard Law School, and Yale Law School lead workshops and academic- and career-focused panels for the cohort throughout the eight-month program.

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AT Foundation/Jane Street Math Prize for Girls

“The country’s preeminent math competition for young women” —MIT Office of Admissions

In 2009, the Advantage Testing Foundation launched MP4G, the largest math prize for girls in the world. In 2022, Jane Street Capital partnered with the AT Foundation by endowing the Math Prize for Girls in perpetuity. Since then, approximately 2000 young mathematicians have taken our exceptionally challenging exams of mathematical analysis and creative problem solving and compete for more than $100,000 in prizes, including a first prize of $50,000.

ENDOWING PARTNER

HOST INSTITUTION

• Jane Street Capital

• MIT

PAST CEREMONY SPEAKERS INCLUDE

• Susan Hockfield, former President of MIT • Dina Katabi, MIT Professor and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient • Stephen Wolfram, Founder of Wolfram Research and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient • Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Winner and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient • Priya Natarajan, Yale Professor of Astronomy • Shafi Goldwasser, MIT Professor and Turing Award Winner • Corina Tarnita, Princeton Professor • Tomasz Mrowka, Former MIT Math Department Chairman • Radhika Nagpal, Harvard Professor

BOARD OF ADVISORS INCLUDES

• Michael Sipser, the Dean of the School of Science at MIT • Maria Klawe, the President of Harvey Mudd College & the former Dean of the School of Engineering at Princeton • Leading mathematicians on the faculties of MIT, Harvard University, University of Washington, and University of Wisconsin

CONTEST CONTRIBUTORS

• The Akamai Foundation • Wolfram Research • Canada/USA Mathcamp

FOR MORE INFORMATION mathprize.atfoundation.org

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Prep for Prep

SAT and ACT instruction

The Advantage Testing Foundation provides pro bono intensive SAT and ACT instruction to high school juniors in Prep for Prep, a highly regarded and extremely successful leadership development program for minority students founded in 1978. Students enter Prep for Prep in the fifth, sixth or seventh grade and complete a rigorous 14-month course of study to prepare for the transition from New York City public schools to leading independent schools. Prep for Prep supports student success in high school and college by provid- ing participants with leadership opportunities, college and career counseling, and access to a deep alumni network. • More than 280 Prep for Prep students prepared for college admission tests • 40.5% of Prep for Prep students tutored by Advantage Testing attend or have graduated from an Ivy League institution

FOR MORE INFORMATION www.prepforprep.org

AT Foundation Honors & Recognitions

• Profiled in the Wall Street Journal’s “Donor of the Day” column for “helping to find the next generation of leaders who will bring diversity, new ideas, compassion and a different kind of leadership to institutions.” • Honorary Pi Eta Kappa Fellowship awarded by Medgar Evers College for “advancing the lives of young men of color.” • AT Foundation President Arun Alagappan was the 25th Reunion Class Speaker for Harvard Law School’s Class of 1985. Delivered presentation on “Promoting Access: How Private Enterprise Can Partner with Universities to Diversify the Nation’s Leadership Pool.” • Featured in New York Magazine’s “The Influentials,” a compilation of 200 professionals “whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York.” • South Asian Council for Social Services Award for extraordinary service to the community. • Mr. Alagappan was recognized as Guest of Honor at LEDA’s 15th Annual Gala and awarded the first-ever LEDA Hero Award for his “relentless support of LEDA and our Scholars.” • Recognized by Mayor Bloomberg for fostering “an extraordinary commitment to the public good…Advantage Testing’s commitment to excellence and social responsibility truly represents the very best our great City has to offer.”

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Board of Trustees

Society of London and is a recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology, and the Genetics Society of America Medal. Dr. Tilghman formerly served on the Board of Trustees of LEDA. She is a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and a director of Google, Inc. Dr. Tilghman is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University. Martha Minow , Vice President , is the 300th Anniversary University President and former Dean of Harvard Law School. She is an expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities. Ms. Minow served on the Independent International Commission for Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Co- existence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in post-conflict societies. Her honors include the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award, selected by the Harvard Law School Class of 2005, the Holocaust Center Award, 2006, and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Toronto, 2006. In 2008, she served on advisory committees addressing legal policy and educational policy for the Obama campaign. Ms. Minow received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.Ed. from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.

Arun Alagappan , President , is the President and Founder of Advantage Testing, Inc. He is a magna cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School. Mr. Alagappan sat on the Board of Editors of the Harvard International Law Journal , served as Law Clerk to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked briefly at the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City. He was a Teaching Fellow in Harvard’s Department of Mathematics and was awarded a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Teaching of Harvard Undergraduates from the Dean of the College. Mr. Alagappan serves on the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep and as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of LEDA (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America). Shirley M. Tilghman , Vice President , is the President Emerita of Princeton University. She is a world-renowned scholar of molecular biology who has conducted pioneering research in the field of human genetics. Dr. Tilghman is a member of the National Research Council’s committee that set the blueprint for the Human Genome Project and was a founding member of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project for the NIH. Prior to being named President of Princeton, she served on the university’s faculty for 15 years. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine, and the Royal

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John Manning , Vice President , is the Dean of Harvard Law School. He is also the Morgan and Helen Chu Professor of Law. He served as the law school’s Deputy Dean from 2013–2017, and from 2007–2017, Dean Manning was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law. He serves on the Harvard University Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging and on the HarvardX faculty committee. Dean Manning is a prolific scholar of public law, focusing on statutory interpretation and structural constitutional law. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he was the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Dean Manning was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dean Manning is a summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

John Edward Sexton , Vice President , is the President Emeritus of New York University, as well as the Ben- jamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School’s Dean Emeritus. Dr. Sexton is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of both the Association of American University Presidents and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Boards of the New York State Commission on Higher Education, the American Council on Education, the Institute of Interna- tional Education and the Association for a Better New York. While Dean of the Law School he was President of the Association of American Law Schools. Dr. Sexton received a B.A. in History from Fordham College, an M.A. in Comparative Religion and a Ph.D. in History of American Religion from Fordham University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Before joining NYU, he served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court, and to Judges David Bazelon and Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals.

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J. Tomilson Hill , Treasurer , is a private investor whose five-decade career has spanned both investment banking and the asset management business. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone’s Hedge Fund Solutions Group and Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group, where he was also on the Board of Directors. Mr. Hill is also the founder of the Hill Art Foundation, a public exhibition and education space in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he chairs the Investment Committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Center Theater, where he serves as Vice Chairman. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn

Museum and Sculpture Garden and as a Trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. In addition, Mr. Hill is a member of the Investment Committee of the Smithsonian Institution’s endowment. He formerly served on the Board of Trustees of Milton Academy and The Nightingale- Bamford School. Sandor Lehoczky is a senior leader at Jane Street who has promoted math education, competition, and access for more than three decades. A Math Olympian in high school, Sandor founded the Mandelbrot Competition with Sam Vandervelde and Richard Rusczyk in 1990. In 1994, he and Richard went on to write and self-publish the seminal two-volume set The Art of Problem Solving , books that continue to have a revolutionary impact on math preparation for ambitious high

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school students. In the mid-2000s, Sandor co-

firm mentor in the entire nation. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. BK Fulton is an award-winning filmmaker and author of 11 books. In 2017, he founded Soulidifly Productions, an integrative film, stage, and TV production company whose mission is to promote a more inclusive narrative in major media. BK is a principal in Winner’s Circle Ventures, a strategic investment company benefiting women and minorities. He has also held senior leadership, media, technology and policy development posts with Verizon, the U.S. Department of Commerce, AOL, Time Warner, and the National Urban League. BK serves on the boards of Norfolk State University, TowneBank, Aer Wireless, Virginians for Reconciliation, the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation, and the Library of Virginia Foundation. BK holds a Bachelor’s degree in urban affairs and planning with two years of computer engineering and architecture from Virginia Tech, a Master of Science degree from the New School’s Milano School of Management, a Professional Certificate in Policy Analysis from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. in intellectual property law from New York Law School. Lauren Frank is a Partner at Reiss Capital Management (RCM), a family office that invests across multiple asset classes including hedge funds, public equities, private equity, venture capital and real estate. Before joining RCM, Ms. Frank was Director of Strategic Planning at the WPP Group, a marketing and

founded the Art of Problem Solving Initiative (AoPSI), a nonprofit focused on bringing powerful resources to high-achieving students who have encountered barriers to success in mathematics. In addition to serving on the board of AoPSI since its inception, Sandor was a Trustee of the Cathedral School of St. John the Divine for nine years, serving both as Treasurer and as a member of the Executive Committee. Sandor graduated from Princeton University with academic honors with a BA in Physics and a certificate in Applied Mathematics. Jackie Stone is a partner at McGuireWoods with decades of experience advising clients on government relations as well as regulatory and immigration matters. She is the former chair of her firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is a former member of the Board of Partners. Jackie has more than 30 years of experience working on immigration and nationality matters. She works closely with the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of Labor, and officials of U.S. Embassies and Consulates. Jackie has been recognized as a Virginia “Super Lawyer” and as one of Virginia's “Legal Elite” in government relations and immigration law by Virginia Business magazine. In 2018, Jackie was honored with the prestigious National Women in Law Award for Lifetime Achievement by Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel , leading ALM publications. Jackie was recently recognized as the top law

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communications services holding company. Ms. Frank began her career as a strategic planning analyst at the Walt Disney Company. A leader in education philanthropy, Ms. Frank serves on the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Lower East Side and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Bronx. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund and on the Steering Committee of New York Presbyterian Hospital’s New Leaders Group. Beth Nash has a longstanding record of promoting positive social change through scholarly work and philanthropic pursuits. She is particularly interested in championing leadership roles for traditionally underrepresented groups including women and girls. Ms. Nash was a founding board member of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project. In 2015, A Better Balance presented her with a “Distinguished Leadership Award” in recognition of her founding the NYU School of Law’s Carr Center for Reproductive Justice. Ms. Nash co-founded and served as principal of her own investment firm. She had previously worked at Goldman Sachs and, subsequently, at CREF. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds graduate degrees from Columbia Business School and NYU. Troy McKenzie is Dean of NYU School of Law. He has also served as faculty co-director of the Institute of Judicial Administration (IJA) and of the Center on Civil Justice. His research and teaching interests include bankruptcy, civil procedure, complex litigation, and the federal

courts. From 2015–17, he took a leave of absence from NYU to serve in the U.S. Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Dean McKenzie earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and a law degree from NYU, where he was an executive editor of the Law Review . After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court.

FORMER BOARD MEMBER

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan served as Vice President of the Advantage Testing Foundation’s original Board of Trustees from 2007–2009, a position she resigned upon her nomination for Solicitor General by President Barack Obama. Prior to her nomination, she was the Dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University. In addition to her service as a Trustee of the Foundation, Justice Kagan was an original partner of the Advantage Testing Foundation’s Trials law school preparation program. Her contributions in shaping that program will continue to benefit outstanding scholars of underrepresented backgrounds for many years to come. Justice Kagan is a summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School.

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