Co-published by: CARANYC and Brooklyn Community Foundation (2012).

The path from high school to college success is a challenging one, and this is especially true for firstgeneration college goers. There has never been so much focus and push toward college attendance, nor has there ever been a time when the cost, academic preparation, and road to enrollment were so difficult to maneuver. In the White Paper, Lori Chajet and Lisa Cowan highlight a number of programs in the city that are putting young people in a leadership role to help their peers to prepare for college and to move through the application process.