ehairston

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by ehairston 6y ago
Thank you so much for sharing!
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by ehairston 7y ago
Glad our service could resonate with you. Thanks for support!
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by ehairston 7y ago
Wow! You highlighted exactly what we've heard from sooo many students: OH being slammed during projects as a major pain point. To avoid helping students cheat, we have all Edlyft mentors agree to an academic honesty policy, go through
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by ehairston 7y ago
Great question! We've built our model so that for every full price paying student, we can admit a need-based financial aid student.
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by ehairston 7y ago
Completely agree. CS departments deserve a ton of credit for having to adjust to insane levels of growth that are unlike any other department. Also you're spot on about Cal. In fact, I too questioned whether or not it made sense for us
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by ehairston 7y ago
That's a great idea! Especially now that students are alone and off campus, the community aspect has become even more important.
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by ehairston 7y ago
Congrats on making it through and thank you for sharing! Your story resonates so much with me and so many of our students. Often the content isn't the most discouraging part, but instead the environment. So well said!
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by ehairston 7y ago
You're spot on; we were very intentional about starting niche in these intro weed out STEM courses because we recognized that there was a huge gap in the system and a "hair on fire" problem we could solve: 50% of STEM student
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Launch HN: Edlyft (YC W20) – Paid Support Program for CS College Students
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