Papers presented at the City University of New York's English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Council conference on maximizing the chances for success of limited-English-proficient college students include the following: "Thresholds, Alienation, and Syntax" (Geoffrey Summerfield); "Storytelling: Starting with the Familiar" (A. Duku Anokye); "Teachers Talk about Reading and Writing Connections" (Jean Withrow, Gay Brookes, Martha Clark Cummings); "Student Autonomy and Group Reliance in an ESL Reading/Writing Course" (Jack Gantzer, Nancy Erber Cadet); "Learning Vocabulary through an Academic Subject: A Case Study" (Kate Parry); "What Happens beyond the Developmental Writing/ESL Course?" (Trudy Smoke); "Person to Person: The Stay in School Partnership Program" (Miriam Eisenstein, John Devine, Timothy Ebsworth, Judith Horvath, John Mancuso, Lauren Sunstein); "Language Facilitation: A Way of Improving the Odds" (Carlos Yorio, Pilar Enright, Elaine Klein); "Improving Learning by Teaching from Students' Strengths" (Adele MacGowan); "The Model and Its Variations: The Pre-Freshman Summer Program of CUNY's Office of Special Programs (SEEK & College Discovery)" (Frank Kehl). A report of a panel discussion on "Improving the Odds" concludes the document. (MSE)