The gap does not begin in college. It begins the summer before.
The MyGRIT Course® Transition Program is a structured bridge experience designed for the most vulnerable academic moment in a student's life — the transition from high school to college. For students, parents, and high schools. Built on the same Effort Learning Model™ that powers the full platform.
Most students enter college without a process for learning at the college level.
High school teaches students what to know. College expects them to know how to learn. That gap — between content delivery and self-directed knowledge acquisition — is where first-year failure lives.
First-generation college students carry this gap at twice the rate of their peers. Not because they are less capable. Because no one ever walked them through what studying, reading, reviewing, and preparing actually look like at the college level.
The Transition Program closes that gap before they ever sit in their first lecture.
The most dangerous academic transition happens in a single summer.
High school teaches students what to know. College expects them to know how to learn. That gap — between content delivery and self-directed knowledge acquisition — is where first-year failure lives.
The numbers are clear. Among students who meet none of the four ACT college readiness benchmarks, only 38% graduate within six years. Among those who meet all four, 84% do. The difference is not intelligence. It is preparation — specifically, preparation in the process of learning itself.
Source: ACT Newsroom, October 2024.
The Transition Program closes that gap before the first lecture. Not by teaching content. By teaching process — the same Effort Learning Model™ that powers the full platform, delivered in the window when it matters most: the summer before freshman year.
Three audiences. One bridge.
You are not behind. You were not prepared. There is a difference.
The Transition Program teaches the Effort Learning Model™ before your first college class begins. You will learn the DGRP™ thinking framework, all seven Effort Learning Actions™, and how to use the Twin AI™ companion to regulate your effort from day one. This is not orientation. This is the process your high school never gave you.
Get on the interest listYou want to help. You will not always know the subject. That is not the barrier.
The Transition Program gives you the language and the questions to support your student through college without needing their textbook. You will learn the DGRP™ question framework so you can ask the right things at every stage. Your involvement does not require a degree. It requires the right process.
Get on the interest listCollege readiness is not a test score. It is a set of behaviors.
The Transition Program integrates into existing senior seminar, advisory period, and college prep programming. It gives your students a structured behavioral system for college-level learning before they leave your building. It gives your counselors and teachers a shared framework for the college readiness conversations you are already having. Title I eligible. Designed for low-friction adoption into existing schedules.
Request a school pilotWhy this summer. Why this year.
The summer before college is the only window between high school structure and college expectation. After that window closes, students learn their process gaps through failure — on exams, in GPA, through the experience of sitting in a lecture they were not taught how to absorb.
The Transition Program moves that learning to before the gap opens. Students arrive at college knowing how to prepare before class, take notes that build understanding, study in a way that actually works, and prepare for exams from their professor's perspective.
That is not a college prep program. That is the process every student deserves to have before they need it.
What students learn before their first college class.
- 01The DGRP™ Framework
Distinguish, Group, Relationships, Perspective. The four cognitive moves that work across every subject, every assignment, every professor.
- 02All 7 Effort Learning Actions™
From preparation before class through test preparation. Students understand the full learning cycle before they face it under pressure.
- 03How to read at the college level
Not faster reading. Strategic reading using DGRP™ to extract and organize meaning rather than highlight and hope.
- 04How to use the Twin AI™ companion
Students complete the “Meet Your Twin” onboarding experience, selecting their AI personality mode and recording their future self message before classes begin.
- 05How to identify what they do not know
The single most important college survival skill. The Transition Program teaches students to locate their own knowledge gaps before exams surface them.
- 06How to involve their support network
Students build their support contact list inside the app and learn the DGRP™ questions their parents, mentors, and advisors can use to help without needing the subject.
Beta program details.
The MyGRIT Course® Transition Program is currently in beta development. Beta participants receive early access to the program curriculum, direct feedback opportunities with the development team, and founder pricing locked at launch. We are accepting interest from individual students, parents, and high school counselors and administrators.
Currently in beta. Launching with the full platform in August 2026.
Rising college freshmen, parents of college-bound students, and high school senior seminar and college prep programs.
Submit interest through the contact form. Beta access is limited. Early interest list members receive priority.
The process your student needs exists. The question is when they get it.
The summer before freshman year is the right time. Not orientation week. Not after the first failed exam.