AT Foundation Booklet

AT Foundation Booklet

The Advantage Testing Foundation identifies and cultivates future leaders of every background. By forging strategic partnerships with leading universities and other distinguished institutions, we expand the opportunities of our nation’s extraordinary young people.

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Initiatives & Partnerships In partnering with preeminent universities and like-minded public service organizations, the Advantage Testing Foundation seeks to pool the outstanding academic resources already available in this nation and help direct them to where they are needed most.

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TRIALS Program

The Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools

In 2009, the Advantage Testing Foundation launched Trials in partnership with Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law. Trials is the nation’s most selective full-scholarship pre-law program, preparing students of underrepresented socioeconomic backgrounds for admission to leading law schools. Trials students are selected on the basis of their compelling personal narratives, ability to overcome adversity, commitment to public service, and academic achievements. Trials scholars spend five weeks at Harvard Law School or the NYU School of Law to study logical reasoning, argumentation, critical reading, and essay writing with Advantage Testing instructors.

TRIALS SCHOLARS VITAL STATISTICS

• 50%+ first-generation college students • 80%+ underrepresented minorities • Median starting diagnostic LSAT score at the 40th percentile

• Median official LSAT score at the 90th percentile • Multiple admissions to all top 10 U.S. law schools • 72 admitted to Harvard Law School

• 4 selected as NYU Root-Tilden Scholars • 3 selected as NYU An-Bryce Scholars • Alumni include 1 Rhodes Scholar, 2 Rhodes Finalists, 4 Fulbright Scholars, 2 Soros Fellows, and 2 Marshall Scholars

PAST GUEST SPEAKERS INCLUDE

• John Manning, Dean of Harvard Law School • Trevor Morrison, Dean of NYU School of Law

• Martha Minow, former Dean of Harvard Law School • Richard Revesz, former Dean of NYU School of Law • John Sexton, former President of NYU and Dean of NYU School of Law • Ronald Sullivan, HLS Criminal Justice Institute Director • Robert Bordone, Founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation Clinic • Gloria Tan, Former Deputy Director of HLS Criminal Justice Institute • Randall Kennedy, HLS Michael R. Klein Professor of Law • The Honorable Jesse M. Furman, US District Court, Southern District of New York • Kristen Clarke, Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice

FOR MORE INFORMATION trials.atfoundation.org

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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 underrepresented public high school students of modest means earn acceptance to and succeed at the nation’s leading colleges and universities.

LEDA SCHOLARS VITAL STATISTICS

• Median household income of ~$30,000. • More than 35% of the last five LEDA cohorts were admitted to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford • 51% of the most recent LEDA cohort will attend Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford • 69% of the most recent LEDA cohort was admitted to an Ivy League college, MIT, or Stanford • ~95% of all LEDA graduates have enrolled or currently enrolled in “Ivy League/Most Competitive,” “Highly Competitive,” or “Very Competitive” institutions (ranked by Barron’s )

NOTABLE MILESTONES

• 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. • In April of 2019, Advantage Testing Foundation President Arun Alagappan was recognized as Guest of Honor at LEDA’s 15th Annual Gala and awarded the first-ever LEDA Hero Award for his “relentless support of LEDA and our Scholars.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION www.ledascholars.org

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AT Foundation/Jane Street Math Prize for Girls

“The country’s preeminent math competition for young women” —MIT Office of Admissions

Each year since 2009, the Advantage Testing Foundation has offered the largest math prize for girls in the world. In 2022, Jane Street Capital partnered with the AT Foundation by endowing the Math Prize for Girls in perpetuity. Nearly 300 young mathematicians annually take our exceptionally challeng- ing examination of mathematical analysis and creative problem solving and compete for more than $50,000 in prizes, including a first prize of $25,000.

ENDOWING PARTNER

HOST INSTITUTION

• Jane Street Capital

• MIT

PAST CEREMONY SPEAKERS INCLUDE

• Susan Hockfield, former President of MIT • Dina Katabi, MIT Professor and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient • Stephen Wolfram, Founder of Wolfram Research and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient • Esther Duflo, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Winner and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient • Priya Natarajan, Yale Professor of Astronomy • Shafi Goldwasser, MIT Professor and Turing Award Winner • Corina Tarnita, Princeton Professor • Tomasz Mrowka, Former MIT Math Department Chairman • Radhika Nagpal, Harvard Professor

BOARD OF ADVISORS INCLUDES

• Michael Sipser, the Dean of the School of Science at MIT • Maria Klawe, the President of Harvey Mudd College & the former Dean of the School of Engineering at Princeton • Leading mathematicians on the faculties of MIT, Harvard University, University of Washington, and University of Wisconsin

CONTEST CONTRIBUTORS

• The Akamai Foundation • Wolfram Research • Canada/USA Mathcamp

FOR MORE INFORMATION mathprize.atfoundation.org

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Prep for Prep

SAT and ACT instruction

The Advantage Testing Foundation provides pro bono intensive SAT and ACT instruction to high school juniors in Prep for Prep, a highly regarded and extremely successful leadership development program founded in 1978. Students enter Prep for Prep in the fifth, sixth or seventh grade and complete a rigorous 14-month course of study to prepare for the transition from New York City public schools to leading independent schools. Prep for Prep sup- ports student success in high school and college by providing participants with leadership opportunities, college and career counseling, and access to a deep alumni network. • More than 280 Prep for Prep students prepared for college admission tests • 40.5% of Prep for Prep students tutored by Advantage Testing attend or have graduated from an Ivy League institution

FOR MORE INFORMATION www.prepforprep.org

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Board of Trustees

Society of London and is a recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology, and the Genetics Society of America Medal. Dr. Tilghman formerly served on the Board of Trustees of LEDA. She is a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and a director of Google, Inc. Dr. Tilghman is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University. Martha Minow , Vice President , is the 300th Anniversary University President and former Dean of Harvard Law School. She is an expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities. Ms. Minow served on the Independent International Commission for Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Co- existence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in post-conflict societies. Her honors include the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award, selected by the Harvard Law School Class of 2005, the Holocaust Center Award, 2006, and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Toronto, 2006. In 2008, she served on advisory committees addressing legal policy and educational policy for the Obama campaign. Ms. Minow received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.Ed. from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.

Arun Alagappan , President , is the President and Founder of Advantage Testing, Inc. He is a magna cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School. Mr. Alagappan sat on the Board of Editors of the Harvard International Law Journal , served as Law Clerk to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked briefly at the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City. He was a Teaching Fellow in Harvard’s Department of Mathematics and was awarded a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Teaching of Harvard Undergraduates from the Dean of the College. Mr. Alagappan serves on the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep and as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of LEDA (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America). Shirley M. Tilghman , Vice President , is the President Emerita of Princeton University. She is a world-renowned scholar of molecular biology who has conducted pioneering research in the field of human genetics. Dr. Tilghman is a member of the National Research Council’s committee that set the blueprint for the Human Genome Project and was a founding member of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project for the NIH. Prior to being named President of Princeton, she served on the university’s faculty for 15 years. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine, and the Royal

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John Manning , Vice President , is the Dean of Harvard Law School. He is also the Morgan and Helen Chu Professor of Law. He served as the law school’s Deputy Dean from 2013–2017, and from 2007–2017, Dean Manning was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law. He serves on the Harvard University Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging and on the HarvardX faculty committee. Dean Manning is a prolific scholar of public law, focusing on statutory interpretation and structural constitutional law. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he was the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Dean Manning was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dean Manning is a summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. John Edward Sexton , Vice President , is the President Emeritus of New York University, as well as the Ben- jamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School’s Dean Emeritus. Dr. Sexton is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of both the Association of American University Presidents and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Boards of the New York State Commission on Higher Education, the American Council on Education, the Institute of Interna- tional Education and the Association for a Better New York. While Dean of the Law School he was President of the Association of American Law

Schools. Dr. Sexton received a B.A. in History from Fordham College, an M.A. in Comparative Religion and a Ph.D. in History of American Religion from Fordham University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Before joining NYU, he served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court, and to Judges David Bazelon and Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals. J. Tomilson Hill , Treasurer , is a private investor whose five-decade career has spanned both investment banking and the asset management business. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone’s Hedge Fund Solutions Group and Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group, where he was also on the Board of Directors. Mr. Hill is also the founder of the Hill Art Foundation, a public exhibition and education space in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he chairs the Investment Committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Center Theater, where he serves as Vice Chairman. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and as a Trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. In addition, Mr. Hill is a member of the Investment Committee of the Smithsonian Institution’s endowment. He formerly served on the Board of Trustees of Milton Academy and The Nightingale- Bamford School.

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Lauren Frank is a Partner at Reiss Capital Management (RCM), a family office that invests across multiple asset classes including hedge funds, public equities, private equity, venture capital and real estate. Before joining RCM, Ms. Frank was Director of Strategic Planning at the WPP Group, a marketing and communications services holding company. Ms. Frank began her career as a strategic planning analyst at the Walt Disney Company. A leader in education philanthropy, Ms. Frank serves on the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Lower East Side and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Girls Prep Bronx. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund and on the Steering Committee of New York Presbyterian Hospital’s New Leaders Group. Beth Nash has a longstanding record of promoting positive social change through scholarly work and philanthropic pursuits. She is particularly interested in champion- ing leadership roles for traditionally underrepresented groups including women and girls. Ms. Nash was a founding board member of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project. In 2015, A Better Balance presented her with a “Distinguished Leadership Award” in recognition of her found- ing the NYU School of Law’s Carr Center for Reproductive Justice. Ms. Nash co-founded and served as principal of her own investment firm. She had previously worked at Goldman Sachs and, subsequently, at CREF. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds graduate degrees from Columbia Business School and NYU.

FORMER BOARD MEMBER

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan served as Vice President of the Advantage Testing Foundation’s original Board of Trustees from 2007–2009, a position she resigned upon her nomination for Solicitor General by President Barack Obama. Prior to her nomination, she was the Dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University. In addition to her service as a Trustee of the Foundation, Justice Kagan was an original partner of the Advantage Testing Foundation’s Trials law school preparation program. Her contributions in shaping that program will continue to benefit outstanding scholars of underrepresented backgrounds for many years to come. Justice Kagan is a summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School.

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