Summary of Advantage Testing’s Public Service Initiatives
Advantage Testing has always worked hard to make high quality education available to students of every background. To that end, the group has provided pro bono instructional help and financial support to a variety of individuals and public service organizations, offered generous financial aid packages to students with demonstrable need, and donated tutoring services to charity benefits and school scholarship funds. In 2007, Arun Alagappan launched the Advantage Testing Foundation to advance the academic and professional aspirations of students of every background by expanding their educational opportunities. The following list represents a few of our other efforts to provide broader access to our academic tutoring, test preparation, and educational counseling programs • We hold small weekly SAT and ACT financial aid classes. Most of our students in these classes attend free of charge. • We have provided free tutoring to selected motivated students from Harlem Village Academy and the Bronx Preparatory Charter High School. • We have established the Advantage Testing Academic Enrichment Fund in support of the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP), an organization that offers on- campus opportunities for academic and cultural enrichment to underprivileged New Jersey public high school students from Trenton, Newark, and Ewing. • We taught SAT students pro bono at The Point Community Development Corporation in the Bronx, a non-profit organization dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. The students we worked with participated in The Point’s Activists Coming to Inform Our Neighborhoods (A.C.T.I.O.N.) program, a leadership workshop in which teenagers craft and implement a variety of initiatives geared to enacting social change in their community. • Many of our tutors volunteer to work one-on-one with needy families on a pro bono basis. • Advantage Testing of New York matches the financial aid grants of other Advantage Testing locations dollar-for-dollar. • We offer reduced-rate, one-on-one tutoring to families who qualify for financial assistance. • It is our explicit goal to enroll motivated students in our programs, regardless of their ability to pay. We ask families applying for financial aid to tell us what they can reasonably afford for our services. In many cases, our financial aid grants are equal to or greater than the amount of aid requested by qualifying families.
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