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PaSSS Benefits

First Summer:

  • Get your college career off to a successful start in a more relaxed summer setting
  • Become familiar with the faculty and staff and learn about resources available to support your learning
  • Meet classmates earlier and develop a new group of friends
  • Build your résumé early by getting work experience and earning up to $1,000 in engagement funds
  • Receive personalized instruction in math to increase your college readiness

Key Components:

  • PaSSS lasts six weeks during the summer prior to your first year at Penn State.
  • The 2022 program runs from Wednesday, June 29 – Friday, August 12, 2022 (Summer Session 2).
  • If you successfully complete your first full year at Penn State, you will be eligible to continue the PaSSS program and earn additional scholarship funds to take classes in your second and third summers of enrollment at a Commonwealth campus.
  • You will take six credits (two courses) during the first summer and up to twelve credits (four courses) during the following two summer(s).
  • You can earn engagement funds for working on campus, for engaging in research with a faculty member, or to earn a stipend for an unpaid internship or community or service-learning service project.
  • You will be paired with a peer mentor who will assist with the transition to college; in the second summer, you can become a student-mentor to assist new PaSSS students.

Pathway to Success: Summer Start Program

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Pathway to Success: Summer Start

Penn State Lehigh Valley’s PaSSS program will provide you with tools and resources to increase the likelihood that you will graduate and earn your Penn State degree on time or early, potentially saving thousands of dollars in tuition and fees.

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Part of the historically rich and economically vibrant Lehigh Valley for more than 100 years, Penn State Lehigh Valley allows students to pursue a globally known degree in a small, close-knit campus setting. Recently enhanced by a multi-million-dollar expansion project, PSU-LV boasts first-rate facilities and faculty, diverse extracurricular programming, and access to 275 Penn State degrees, 10 of which can be completed entirely at the campus.  
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