Getting In
Was the Work.
Staying In
Is the Challenge.
41% of first-generation college students seriously consider leaving school during their first year. Not because they are not capable. Because no one gave them a clinical map of how they are wired emotionally. College Edge is that map, built as a lifetime practice you begin in high school, deepen through college, and carry into your professional career.
See the TiersThere Is No Roadmap.
College Edge
Builds You One.
If neither of your parents completed a four-year college degree, you are entering an environment your family has never navigated. That is not a disadvantage. It is simply a context.
First-generation students leave college at twice the rate of their peers, not because they lack ability, but because they lack the emotional architecture to navigate an institutional culture their family did not map for them.
College Edge builds that architecture before you arrive. The EI Assessment gives you a data-grounded understanding of how you handle stress, how you communicate, and how you recover from setbacks. The work begins in summer and compounds over a lifetime.
Source: Common App 2025; NSCRC 2024
You Will Know Exactly
How You Are Wired.
How You Handle Pressure
The EI stress resilience scale tells you exactly where you break down under pressure and gives you a clinical strategy for strengthening it before finals week.
How You Communicate
The Communication Mapping profile shows whether you lead, influence, support, or analyze by default. You will walk into college knowing how you show up in a room.
How You See Yourself
Self-regard is the EI subscale that predicts impostor syndrome. Students with low self-regard are significantly more likely to disengage in the first semester.
How You Build Belonging
The interpersonal relationship subscales map how you connect in an unfamiliar environment. Students who build community in the first eight weeks are the ones who stay.
How You Solve Problems
The problem-solving subscale predicts whether you will ask for help or struggle silently until the situation becomes irreversible.
How You Recover
Emotional resilience, the capacity to fall and come back, is the defining competency for first-year survival. College Edge builds it systematically across summer, freshman year, and beyond.
College Edge is not a test-prep service or a one-time assessment. It is the entry point into a lifetime emotional intelligence practice. You begin in the summer before college, deepen the work through your degree, and carry the same framework into your professional career. The same EQ data that helps you survive freshman year is the data that helps you lead a team a decade later.
Begins in summer Deepens through college Continues into careerEvery tier includes an EQ/EI validated assessment, DISC behavioral profile, one 60-minute 1:1 report debrief, and the weekly community mentorship mastermind call. Each tier builds on the one before it.
- EQ/EI Validated Assessment, 15 emotional competencies
- DISC Behavioral Profile
- One 60-minute 1:1 report debrief
- Student profile report with development priorities
- Weekly community mentorship mastermind call
- (1) Parent debrief session
- Three 30-minute 1:1 coaching sessions
- Communication Mapping debrief, how you show up in every room
- College Edge resource guide and survival toolkit
- Personal persistence action plan
- 30-day follow-up check-in after debrief
- Weekly community mentorship mastermind call, 12 months
- Three additional 1:1 coaching sessions, six total over 12 months
- Summer Bridge Intensive included, no add-on required
- College transition action plan for the first eight weeks
- Post-enrollment fall check-in in October
- Extended parent debrief and partnership session
Already Enrolled in College?
Students already on campus start with Momentum, the 12-month engagement designed for the persistence work that matters most once classes begin. Same EQ-i 2.0 and Maxwell DISC foundation, sized for where you actually are. Skip Launch and start where the work meets you.
Enroll in In-College Momentum $2,497, one-time payment
Six dedicated check-ins over 6 months designed around your persistence progress. Your parents get the strategies, language, and clinical insight to be informed partners without overstepping. Particularly valuable for first-generation families, and for students 18 or older where your debrief belongs to you.
At College Edge, every student is the rightful owner of their own emotional intelligence work. If you are under 18 and not yet enrolled in college, your parents are full partners in the debrief and receive a dedicated Parent Briefing.
If you are 18 or older, OR already enrolled in college, the debrief belongs to you. Your parents may attend only with your written consent. This is how serious clinical work treats the person being assessed: with respect, and in compliance with the legal data ownership rules under FERPA.
Parents who want structured involvement have a dedicated path through the Parent Partner Add-On. Full details are in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
One Method.
A Complete Ecosystem.
College Edge is the applied version of The Persist Method, the EQ-grounded approach to persistence developed by Dr. Tremayne Thurman, OTD. The book starts the conversation. The workbook builds the practice. The Lab applies it for senior year. The College Edge tiers do the deep work across college and into early career. Your enrollment is your entry point into a complete framework.
Persist, Your Destiny Awaits
The book. A clinical and personal field guide to persistence by Dr. Tremayne Thurman, OTD. Read Chapter 1 free now. Full book launches Summer 2026.
Get Chapter 1 Free →The Persist Workbook
The companion workbook. Practical exercises, family conversation guides, and EQ-grounded prompts that turn the book into daily practice.
The Persist Method Online
The self-paced course. Twelve modules, video lessons from Dr. Thurman, downloadable practice tools.
Senior Year Life Skills Lab
The twelve-week curriculum from Chapter 9. Sleep, money, time, food, body, communication, anchor.
College Edge Launch
The six-week summer bridge. EQ-i 2.0, DISC profile, sixty-minute debrief with Dr. Thurman, weekly community call.
College Edge Momentum
Twelve-month engagement. Three coaching sessions, Communication Mapping debrief, persistence action plan.
College Edge Persist Advantage
The premium twelve-month engagement. Six coaching sessions, Summer Bridge included, transition action plan, fall check-in, extended parent partnership.
The Persist Workshop
The institutional engagement. Half-day, full-day, and multi-day programs for universities, healthcare systems, K-12 districts, and ministries.
Certified Facilitator Program
For coaches, counselors, and educators who want to deliver The Persist Method in their own communities under TGG licensing.