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.
See the PackagesThere 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.
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 over 10 months.
Three Packages.
Every Student Has a Starting Point.
The weekly group community persistence call is included in every package.
- Emotional Intelligence full validated assessment
- Communication Mapping behavioral profile
- Individual 45-minute clinical debrief with Dr. Thurman
- Written personal profile summary
- Weekly group community persistence call included
- Best for 10th or 11th grade self-awareness development
- Everything in Clarity
- 3 coaching sessions with Dr. Thurman (45 min each)
- College Edge resource guide and survival toolkit
- Personal persistence action plan
- 30-day follow-up check-in after debrief
- Weekly group community persistence call included
- Summer Bridge add-on available ($600)
- Everything in Momentum
- Parent debrief session (30 minutes)
- College transition action plan for first eight weeks
- Post-enrollment fall check-in (October)
- Summer Bridge Intensive included
- Weekly group community persistence call included
- Best for first-generation families