Mission

The TEAK Fellowship helps talented New York City students from low-income families gain admission to and succeed at top high schools and colleges. Along with academic support, TEAK provides leadership training, exposure to the arts and outdoors, mentoring, career experience, and assistance with the high school and college application processes. TEAK admits high achieving, low-income seventh-grade boys and girls from all five boroughs of New York City and works with them through the summer after they graduate from high school. Gaining admission to a top high school, having support during high school, and being exposed to a strong group of peers, advisors, and mentors will give talented students who lack the economic resources of their peers more equal footing from which to compete and succeed.