Bridge To Success Program
For the third consecutive year, this August Rosemont will conduct our Bridge to Success Program. Bridge is a pre-orientation program which offers: academic support emphasizing writing and reading, college readiness, and study skills to a selected group of students in the class of 2014. Bridge students attend four days of classes taught by Rosemont professors.
While this is basically an academic program, there are also fun activities in the late afternoon and evening. Five student mentors are assigned up to 8 Bridge students each. They have meals with them and participate in the outside of class events (e.g. a bowling outing, game night, etc.) so that bonds begin to form, The mentors continue to be available to the Bridge students all during the year.
During the course of the year both the Coordinator and the staff of Student Academic Support will “touch base” with each student regularly, as will the student mentors.
Prospective students will be interested to know that statistics show that “graduates” of the Bridge Program do significantly better academically in their freshman year than do students who were invited to attend Bridge, but chose not to do so.
Bridge is by invitation only, based on high school record and test scores. Selected students receive invitation letters shortly after they deposit. Space is limited so invitees are urged to respond promptly!