Frequently Asked Questions for students

In the 2025/2026 school year, only members of the Class of 2027 (Juniors) are eligible to participate. Every year thereafter, members of the Junior and Senior class will be able to participate.

You can pre-register now by completing this online form. Once you do, you will be among the first to know when the official registration opens in August!

August 2025 – Registration opens for students.
September 2025 – Matching takes place
October 2025 – Program begins
March 2026 – Program concludes

The 2025/2026 program will kick off in September after matches have been made and ends in March. Along the way there will be six milestones with separate deadlines that mentoring pairs will be expected to meet (about one per month). You and your mentor are free to decide to meet more frequently if you mutually desire.

Yes! Members of the Class of 2027 are eligible to participate during the 2025/2026 school year and/or the 2026/2027 school year.

The new and improved connectGettysburg platform has advanced matching algorithms that are used to match students with alumni. Not only will it consider information in your profile like your major and industries of interest, but when you register for the program, you will be asked a series of questions about what is important to you in a mentor.

No. In fact, we have designed this program to be entirely virtual so mentorship can be completed from anywhere. Student mentees and mentors will decide together the best mode for mentorship meetings, but we highly encourage the use of the advanced communication tools such as video conferencing in connectGettysburg.

Of course! While the mentoring program has a clear start and finish date as well as required benchmarks throughout, if you have built a trusted relationship with your mentor and mutually want to keep meeting, you will just need to work out those details with your mentor outside of the program.

Not exactly. Students can only be matched with one mentor as part of the Formal Mentoring Program at a time. However, students are permitted to join future mentoring programs, and of course, students can access micro mentoring at any time using the connectGettysburg platform.

The Formal Mentoring Program is not going to be a perfect fit for everyone. If that’s the case for you, don’t worry, you can still find alumni to help you with career advice, networking help, and post-college transition support through micro mentoring on connectGettysburg.

Yes! Depending on where you will be studying, it should be easy to coordinate meeting with your mentor at times that work for each of you and meet all the benchmarks in a timely manner.

For the purposes of this program, all students will be matched using the algorithm. That said, every student in the program will have the opportunity to select up to three alumni as “favorites,” which the algorithm considers during matching, but there is no guarantee.