Advantages Of AVID

The goal of AVID is to assist students into getting accepted to a 4 year college. This is accomplished through various ways, some of which are helpful and others which, are quite frankly a waste of time. AVID is not a perfect program but it does offer some advantages such as fee waivers for the SAT and ACT which encourages the AVID students to take those tests. Another clear positive are the AVID tutors which greatly assist the students when it comes to overcoming difficulties that they may face in their other classes whether it be practicing for a test or learning new material. I do feel the that the TRF’s were over complicated, we couldn’t just ask our tutors for help when we needed it but it was mandatory. This meant that many students