Student Success Center

HUGE shoutout to Emanuel Vidal, who is a POSSE Scholarship finalist for Lafayette College! The POSSE Scholarships rewards a full tuition scholarship for high achieving scholars! Congratulations on all your hard work Emanuel! 🎉🩵🤍🩶👨‍🏫

MASSIVE shout out to our 3 QuestBridge National College Match Finalists! QuestBridge received over 25,000 applications this fall, with only 7,026 students becoming finalists (including 3 of our own!) Congratulations to Michael Vega, Katie-Ann Lluberes, and Bryan Valle on this amazing feat! 🩵🤍🩶🧑‍🏫👩‍🏫👨‍🏫

College Prep with Ms. Jane Higgins was a success! On Saturday, September 27th, Ms. Higgins met with students and lead writing exercises for our students to work on their personal statements

On Friday, September 26th, Princeton University’s Admissions Director visited students in the SSC! This was a great opportunity for our students to learn all about what the Ivy League school has to offer their new incoming class!

Our very first Workshop Wednesday was a success! For our first workshop of the year, during all lunch periods the SSC YLs gave a quick presentation about the post secondary options their peers are encouraged to pursue this year as well as assisted everyone in creating accounts for their college application portals and FAFSA portal!

The Student Success Center along with High School for Mathematics, Science, & Engineering hosted their annual Spring College Fair for our 2026 graduating class. Over 65 reps from various colleges/universities, career, military & vocational programs attended the event & provided information for our junior class as they embark on their postsecondary journey.

As we say Goodbye to our outgoing Seniors, we wanted to take some time to congratulate them on their future steps.

On Friday May 23rd, A. Philip Randolph Campus High-School / Good Shepherd Services: Student Success Center took some juniors on a trip to John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

the Student Success Center took students from the junior class on a trip to the New Jersey campus of Universal Technical Institute.

UTI is a technical trade college that offers specialized technical education programs under the banner of several brands. Those brands include, NASCAR Technical Institute, Motorcycle Mechanics Institute & Marine Mechanics Institute. Programs offered at UTI are Automotive Technology, Welding Technology, Electronics & Industrial Technology, HVAC, Robotics & Automation along with others.

Students met w/ an admissions officer & were able to get an information session on academics, FAFSA, internships & residential life. Students then went on a campus tour where they got to visit UTI's beautiful campus & various workstations. To end the day students enjoyed lunch provided by UTI.