Youth Tennis Advantage (YTA) instructors, administrators, and supporters ultimately want to see each YTA girl or boy receive a college education. The College Pathway program is in place to help faciliate this important goal by helping to motivate and encourage academic success in children and teens in a number of different ways. For example, College Pathway enables students of participating local colleges to link with a YTA youngster in order to provide tutoring and mentoring support. The program instills life long skills that increase self esteem, perseverence, and academic achievement and helps them overcome and challenges in their formal education.