The experimental Vocational Exploration in the Private Sector (VEPS-I) program, 1971-72 was intended to provide dropout-prone Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) youth with intensive counseling, supportive services and work experience in the private sector, to encourage completion of high school, and to assist in obtaining full-time employment upon graduation. This report is a longitudinal impact study of enrollees from their selection in June, 1971, to a point after high school graduation in June, 1973. The analysis indicates that VEPS achieved significant success in attaining its objectives. Outcome data for the VEPS-I completers was compared to similar data for a control group of NYC youth. T-score tests on change in grade point average and school attendance over the 1970-71 to 1972-73 school years reveal statistically significant improvement. No difference could be observed in comparing graduation/dropout rates for the two groups, although the VEPS-I group could have been expected to have a higher school dropout rate. VEPS-I youth achieved a statistically significant higher employment rate upon graduation compared to the control group. (Author)