Episcopal Social Services of New York

PYA Visits Cornell University

One of the components of the Preparing Youth for Adulthood (PYA) program is to help the teens with the college admissions process.  The staff in the PYA program assist the teens with identifying colleges/universities that they should apply to, as well as the application and financial aid process.  Visiting colleges helps high school students to become familiar with all of the benefits that a college education has to offer.  As a result, ESS  takes the teens in our PYA program on college tours. 

5 teens from the PYA program chaperoned by 2 PYA staff, and 1 of the NYC Civic Corps members, visited Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.  The teens got a special Saturday tour from a student tour guide.  The tour guide, who was a Junior at Cornell, gave the teens great insight about choosing the right major and the importance of being involved on campus through extracurricular activities.  The PYA teens also learned the university’s history, and received a complete tour of the vast campus. 

“I’m really excited to go to college in the Fall!” one of the teens expressed after the tour.