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, an academic intervention program widely recognized as the most successful in the nation. LEDA’s goal is to help primarily rural public high school students of modest means earn acceptance to and succeed at the nation’s leading colleges and universities. More than 85% of LEDA Scholars in the 2018 cohort are the first in their family to attend college. o median household income of ~$30,000. o more than 35% of the last five LEDA cohorts admitted to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford o 56% of the most recent LEDA cohort will attend Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford o 70% of the most recent LEDA cohort admitted to an Ivy League college, MIT, or Stanford o 95% of all LEDA graduates currently enrolled in “Ivy League/Most Competitive,” “Highly Competitive,” or “Very Competitive” institutions (ranked by Barron’s ) o 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. o Advantage Testing Associate Director John Roberts served as President of LEDA’s Board of Trustees from 2010–2015. o In April of 2019, Advantage Testing Foundation President Arun Alagappan was recognized as Guest of Honor at LEDA’s 15 th Annual Gala and awarded the first-ever LEDA Hero Award for his “relentless support of LEDA and our Scholars.” o LEDA Scholar vital statistics:
For more information: http://www.ledascholars.org
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