For many of the high schools on the Lower East Side it's a struggle just to get the kids to graduate. But the University Neighborhood High School, surrounded by housing projects, works hard to prepare students for higher education as well. The expectation that kids will achieve and go to college hovers in the air. College trips, administered through the Grand Street Settlement, begin in the 9^th grade. (This community organization also runs the school's college office with a full time counselor on staff.) A few seniors take. . .