The Freshman JumpStart programme prepares students enrolling in universities in Fall 2003 for the unique challenges of their first year of post-secondary education. A student’s performance during the Freshman year — when a number of key prerequisite courses may be simultaneously taken — may have far-reaching consequences for subsequent applications to competitive professional programmes such as Medicine, Law, and Dentistry. In Ontario the situation has been rendered even more acute this year as the Double Cohort finally hits university campuses across the province in September. The Freshman JumpStart helps ensure each of its programme participants gets ahead of the academic curve and stays ahead of the competition for the rest of the year.