LEDA

The Advantage Testing Foundation provides financial support, pro bono SAT tutoring, and academic instruction to Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America.

LEDA is an academic intervention program that prepares exceptional public high school students of modest means from primarily rural areas across the country for acceptance to the nation’s leading colleges and universities.

The Advantage Testing LEDA Scholars Program recruits bright, highly motivated 11th-grade students to participate in a multifaceted college preparation program. AT LEDA scholars attend the eight-week Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute at Princeton University tuition-free. At the Institute, AT LEDA Scholars discuss challenging readings in a seminar setting, roleplay complex social, historical and political scenarios, and participate in team-building group activities. Residential life and cultural excursions prepare students for adjustment to college life and strengthen their sense of community.

• Of the original cohort of 51 LEDA Scholars (Class of 2006), 16 of 24 applicants were offered admission to Princeton, 8 of 10 to MIT, 6 to Harvard, 5 to Yale, 5 to Stanford, 9 to Amherst, and numerous others to Brown, Dartmouth, and other leading colleges and universities.
• Of the 79 LEDA Scholars enrolled in the Class of 2007, 8 were offered admission to the University of Pennsylvania, 7 to Cornell, 6 to Princeton, 6 to Brown, 5 to Harvard, 9 to Amherst, 6 to Wesleyan, 5 to Stanford, 5 to Georgetown, and numerous others to Dartmouth, Yale, and other leading colleges and universities.
• The recent college acceptance data for LEDA’s Class of 2008 include: 11 admissions to Cornell, 9 to Stanford, 8 to Dartmouth, 7 to Princeton, 6 to Georgetown, 5 to Harvard, and 4 each to the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, Brown, and Wellesley, among many others.

You can read more about Advantage Testing's partnership with LEDA here.

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