NYC schools chancellor continues push to get more high schoolers college bound
365 NYC Schools Participating in College Application Week This Year - Less than Half the City’s Total
Public high school educators across the city will be driving home a special message to their students this week: Think college.
Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina announced Monday that a record 365 New York City high schools – 115 of them in Brooklyn — will participate in College Application Week, which runs Oct. 17-21.
Now in its fourth year, College Application Week promotes college awareness in all high school grade levels by holding college application and financial aid sessions; bringing students on visits to local college campuses; hosting question-and-answer seminars for students and their families, decorating school hallways and classrooms with college posters and even having staff and alumni wear college gear around high school campuses.
Farina explained that the school system’s participation is part of Mayor de Blasio’s College Access for All Initiative, and added that this week’s activities would be “focused on low-income students and those who would be the first in their family to go to college.”