Empowering High School Students for Successful College Transitions
Psycollegey Advantage is an innovative, research-based program focused on helping students build and strengthen the social and emotional skills needed to successfully transition to college.
Our fundamental wish is to see our students leave for college excited, filled with wonder, and with the tools to competently face common first year challenges.
Being Prepared for College Goes Beyond Academics
Students who are better prepared socially and emotionally than their peers report a much better experience in their first year and have a higher rate of academic success.
60%
of first-year college students report wishing they had gotten help to be better emotionally prepared for college.
Our Approach
Our research-based curriculum focuses on
 four key areas:
1. The Social Self
Skills for Healthy Relationships
1. The Social Self
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​​Making and maintaining relationships
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Living with others
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Navigating conflict
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Managing social anxiety
1. The Social Self
Skills for Healthy Relationships
3. The Independent Self
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Self-care habits
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Work-life balance
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Adulting skills
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Financial literacy
Through experiential activities, self-assessments, and presentations students will take what they learn and directly apply and practice skills that will help them navigate first-year challenges.
1. The Social Self
Skills for Healthy Relationships
2. The Emotional Self
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Coping with stress
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Value-based decision making
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Cultivating self-compassion
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Support for mental health
1. The Social Self
Skills for Healthy Relationships
4. The Academic Self
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Time management
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Accountability planning
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Self-advocacy
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Managing perfectionism
No matter what your role is in the college process, we can help build the foundation for first-year success.
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Who Are We?
After decades of experience as psychologists working with high school and college students, we became increasingly aware that the overarching emphasis in college preparation efforts surrounds the process of getting into college, often at the risk of overlooking what is needed to thrive once in college. Our goal is to close this gap.