COLLEGE READY™
For the Part of College You Can't Study For.
College teaches the course. College Ready™ helps students practice everything happening around it.
College Ready™ is a live, facilitator-led college-life simulation where students practice managing academics, money, time, resources, relationships, well-being, and career opportunities before those decisions carry real-world consequences.
COLLEGE IS MORE THAN CLASSES.
Students can arrive academically capable and still be unprepared for the decisions surrounding college life. College Ready™ helps students practice seven critical areas:
ACADEMICS
Professors, grades, syllabi, academic expectations, and academic recovery.
MONEY
Budgets, unexpected expenses, credit, debt, and everyday financial decisions.
TIME
Studying, employment, social life, responsibilities, sleep, and competing priorities.
RESOURCES
Knowing where to go, what to ask, and when to ask for help.
PEOPLE
Roommates, professors, coworkers, friends, communication, and boundaries.
WELL-BEING
Recognizing overload and responding before pressure becomes a crisis.
CAREER
Opportunities, networking, professional communication, and Career Capital.
YOU DON’T LEARN COLLEGE READY. YOU PRACTICE IT.
College Ready™ uses the College Life Simulation™ to help students practice real decisions before they’re on their own.
Students receive an assigned College Identity™ with academics, finances, employment, housing, responsibilities, and starting circumstances.
Throughout the program, students encounter realistic situations, make private decisions, lock those decisions, experience consequences, navigate resources, and learn how to recover when things do not go according to plan.
IDENTITY
SITUATION
DECISION
RESOURCE
CONSEQUENCE
RESPONSE
RECOVERY
"There is no perfect semester.
The goal isn’t to practice perfect answers. It’s to practice how to respond."
THE FIVE CORE SKILLS
College Ready™ focuses on five core skills that shape how students experience college life.
PLAN
See beyond the immediate moment.
DECIDE
Weigh information, priorities, and tradeoffs.
NAVIGATE
Find and use the right resources.
ADVOCATE
Ask questions and communicate effectively.
RECOVER
Respond when something doesn’t go according to plan.
College-ready people recognize when something isn’t working and know what to do next.
THE COLLEGE READY™ LAB.
The full College Ready™ experience.
PROGRAM FORMAT
10 Weeks
Tuesday–Thursday
90 Minutes Per Day
30 Live Sessions
45 Instructional Hours
Virtual
Cohorts of Up to 15 Students
WEEKLY RHYTHM
TUESDAY — LEARN IT
"Students learn the week’s college-life skill, concept, strategy, or resource."
WEDNESDAY — LIVE IT
"Students enter the College Life Simulation™, make decisions, weigh tradeoffs, and lock their choices."
THURSDAY — NAVIGATE IT
"Students experience consequences and curveballs, practice recovery, navigate resources, and transfer what they learned to real life."
NOT READY FOR THE FULL LAB YET?
COLLEGE READY™ PREVIEW PLAYBOOK
Experience One Week Before You Take On a Semester.
$29
The College Ready™ Preview Playbook™ lets students manage Taylor Morgan through one compressed week of college decisions involving academics, money, time, work, relationships, and opportunities. Students make the decisions first and then discover what those decisions reveal about how they approach college life.
The Preview shows you the decisions. College Ready™ helps you build the skills.
ALREADY OWN THE PREVIEW?
YOU FINISHED THE WEEK. NOW UNPACK YOUR DECISIONS.
Preview owners receive access to the complimentary College Ready™ Decision & Consequence Guide™.
The companion guide walks students through Taylor’s major decision paths, tradeoffs, likely consequences, recovery moves, and the college-readiness lessons behind each situation.
FOR PARENTS & FAMILIES.
YOU CAN’T MAKE EVERY COLLEGE DECISION FOR THEM. YOU CAN HELP THEM PRACTICE BEFORE THEY HAVE TO.
College Ready™ gives students a safe environment to experience realistic college-life decisions and consequences before tuition, grades, financial aid, employment, relationships, and independence are actually at stake.
The program allows families to support readiness without requiring students to disclose private personal circumstances.
Students are never required to disclose their family’s real finances, mental-health information, housing circumstances, family challenges, or other private personal information.
College Ready™ is NOT:
- An admissions-prep course
- An SAT or ACT preparation program
- A tutoring service
- A college application workshop
- A lecture series
College Ready™ IS:
An experiential college-life readiness program focused on planning, decision-making, resource navigation, self-advocacy, and recovery. Students don’t simply learn what they should do. They practice deciding what to do when college life gets complicated.
