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Jeannie V. Lang '00 says that when she decided to start a group as a junior, she was simply trying to apply what she was learning in the classroom to the real world...
...found academic life very stultifying for me," Lang says. "I was tired of writing papers that nobody really cared about and I really wanted to do something...
During the summer after her sophomore year, Lang started an SAT tutoring program in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with the goal of reaching less affluent high school students who couldn't afford classes at the major test-prep companies. When she returned to Harvard that fall, she founded a similar program, Get Ready!, in Boston...
Jeannie V. Lang '00, another member of SAC, is taking next year to expand a small start-up non-profit organization that helps under-privileged youngsters get to college. The organization, Get Ready! works with churches, schools and families to provide free SAT prep and college/financial aid advising to under-served urban high school students...
...time being, my interest in public service has shifted to the non-profit sector," Lang says, "but I don't know that that is permanant. My main interest in politics and the IOP has always been how government works as an agent in people's lives; it can have such a huge effect...