GradeCheck Founder Sheila Mcbride

As the founder of GradeCheck Corporation, an academic coaching service,  Sheila McBride knows the value of listening and responding to customer needs.

Customers, McBride says, were the driving force behind her team’s recent decision to provide an expanded website. “Taking into careful consideration the feedback of the students, parents and educators currently using GradeCheck, we are proud to announce the launch of enhanced services on www.gradecheck.net ,” said  McBride, founder and CEO of GradeCheck.

Launched on April 23, GradeCheck’s enhanced services include a  new interactive app called  the ” What If ”  calculator, a feature that allows students to create a series of academic scenarios that will meet their personal academic goals.  The “What If” calculator is an interactive application that allows students to input their future course selections, set their desired grade point average (GPA) and save and retrieve their information.  The calculator then provides the student with a variety of ways to reach their desired GPA. The student then determines what action steps  are needed to stay on track.

In addition, the “What If” calculator visually represents for the student the impact individual course grades have on their overall academic performance.

“These enhancements provide our users with the ability to stay up-to-date with the academic performance levels they need to achieve in order to take advantage of the variety of post-secondary opportunities available,” says Jeffrey Poulsen, CIO of GradeCheck.

About GradeCheck Corporation

GradeCheck is an academic coaching service paired with an internet-based system that stimulates academic achievement by helping students see where they stand today, decide where they want to go tomorrow, and create a plan to get there successfully.  Founded in 1997 to help student-athletes through the rigorous process of achieving academic eligibility for NCAA scholarship acceptance, GradeCheck has since expanded to provide academic support, tools and resources to students, parents and administrators at all primary and secondary education levels. For more details, visit www.gradecheck.net or contact Brian Curtis at bcurtis@gradecheck.net.