What are People Saying about Prep for Prep?

“As a corporate citizen, Goldman Sachs views Prep as one of the most effective efforts now underway to ensure that the leadership pipeline available to business, government, academia, and all important sectors of American society includes a far larger number of well-educated, highly motivated young people from segments of our American population that continue to be underrepresented in that critical leadership pool.”

                                                       - Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs

 

“Prep for Prep combines vision and effectiveness in a rare and potent way.”

                                                       - Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University

 

“There is no more critical issue facing our society than providing a quality education for all students.  Prep for Prep is truly an extraordinary organization.  Its alumni have gone on to careers of achievement, commitment, service, and integrity.  Prep for Prep shows the power of believing in a vision and the work needed to make it come true.”

                                                       - Caroline Kennedy, Chief Executive, Office of Strategic  Partnerships, New York City Department of Education

 

“Since 1978, 25 classes of Prep for Prep students have transformed the vision of the program’s founder into the reality of names, faces, and a stunning record of academic success.  It has been heartening for all of us who care about the future of education in this country to see gifted students move to levels of achievement because of the opportunities that Prep opens up for them.  As a result, countless families, schools, colleges, and universities have been enriched and I am happy to say that Princeton has been a major beneficiary of these ripple effects.  We have found that Prep students who apply to Princeton are extremely well prepared for our rigorous academic programs, and those we are fortunate enough to attract to the University have not only excelled academically but made their mark as student and alumni leaders.”

                                                       - Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University

 

“For the past 25 of our 375 years, we have had in Prep for Prep the most catalytic partner imaginable in helping us, and other like-minded schools, reach our laudable goal of inspiring and training young people in order that they might go on to lead and serve.  Rarely in a community does an attractive idea, however compelling, have the powerful impact that Prep for Prep has had on the students who have been part of the program.  And that says nothing of the rest of us, students and faculty, whose own lives have been dramatically affected by schools that are palpably more dynamic, just, and interesting than they would have been were it not for this fruitful partnership.”

                                                       - Kerry Brennan, Headmaster, Collegiate School

 

“Harvard has benefited enormously from the amazing work Prep for Prep has done over the years and with the 72 Prep for Prep alumni already with Harvard degrees and the 43 more currently here.  Throughout my career, I have cited Prep for Prep as one of the country’s most important programs in identifying and developing promising students from all backgrounds.  If we could replicate Prep for Prep around the country, America would be in a much better position to make full use of its talented young people.”

                                                        -William R. Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Harvard College