LEAP students take courses together, live together, and take a team approach to learning. This exciting and comprehensive experience is offered only during the summer and only to first semester undergraduates admitted to University Park. Coming to Penn State in the summer and enrolling in LEAP gives you all the benefits of a big university but makes that big university seem small. Other helpful workshops to get you started right away with the latest of computer technologies, including the World Wide Web and Internet. Quality professors and instructors in each of the targeted content areas interested in helping you make the transition from high school to college life.
Team approaches to problem solving and projects.
Living arrangements that allow you to live with the students you work with in your set of classes. Access to student mentors to assist you with class work, learning your way around University Park, and team work skills. This summer, L.E.A.P. will offer nineteen different course option packages or Prides. A pride consists of two integrated courses, a group of students, their instructors, librarians, and mentors. Each pride allows students to complete one of Penn State's required communication courses and focus on an academic area of interest.