The TEAK Fellowship Reviews
16 W 22nd St, 3rd FL
New York, NY 10010
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TEAK serves 145 6th- through 12th-grade Fellows annually and currently supports 160 graduates through an Alumni Program. Since TEAK's inception, we can proudly report:
• TEAK has helped 100% of its active Fellows (twelve classes) earn admission to one or more academically selective high schools. They have secured nearly $31 million in aid representing 96% of their total tuition.
• The Fellows have been placed at top public, independent, and parochial high schools across New York City and the Northeast including The Brearley School, Bronx Science High School, Choate Rosemary Hall, Collegiate School, Deerfield Academy, Horace Mann School, Phillips Academy Andover, Phillips Exeter Academy, Regis High School, Riverdale Country School, Saint Ann’s School, St. Paul’s School, Stuyvesant High School, and Trinity School.
• 100% of the 12-grade Fellows from the first eight classes graduated from high school and were accepted at one or more colleges and universities. They collectively earned $23 million in financial aid.
• 100% of Fellows have matriculated to college – 87% of whom matriculated to top tier national universities or liberal arts colleges, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, including 23% to the Ivy League.
• Members of the first four classes graduated from college and are now pursuing academic and professional endeavors including a Fulbright Scholarship, medicine, law, pharmacology, engineering, cancer research, AmeriCorps service, public health, journalism, finance, and teaching.
• Through TEAK's Public Service Internship Program, Fellows have cumulatively performed over 32,000 service hours over ten summers at non-profits including American Museum of Natural History and The Carter Burden Center for the Aging
• Over ten years of TEAK’s Private Enterprise Internship Program, companies including Bumble and bumble, Goldman, Sachs & Co., JPMorgan Chase, and SONY Music have hosted over 325 TEAK internships wherein Fellows have earned over $710,000 in wages.
• TEAK has earned 3- and 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator, the evaluation site’s highest rank- ings for financial management, and TEAK was rated the #1 education & literacy program in Contribute New York’s “2007 Contribute 200 – Guide to Investor-Worthy Charities.”