The Yleana Leadership Academy is a residential summer academy for rising high school seniors in low-SES urban areas (Boston and Boston’s North Shore, NYC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore) which seeks to close the achievement gap through a three-week transformative intervention which allows students who might not be sure about an away-from-home college experience (or college, for that matter!) to try out college living for themselves on Colgate University’s beautiful campus, while at the same time benefiting from:

• intense SAT training using the Socratic method and grounded in asking questions
• a curriculum specifically designed around higher order thinking skills
• leadership training
• a traditional summer camp experience

All students attend on full scholarship, including room, board, all books and materials, and free transportation to and from the campus (all qualify as low-SES, and most of our population is first-generation and of color). The Yleana experience is, for many, the first time our kids have slept away from home for a protracted period of time, and provides a unique opportunity to live on a college campus to truly imagine themselves in college - while at the same time becoming part of a welcoming and introspective camp community. To learn more about us, check out our promotional video (which gives the look and feel of an Yleana experience): https://youtu.be/jQNa_XsFh-U.