<p>Since this isn't getting much attention in the summer programs forum, I decided I would make a thread here about it.</p>
<p>Has anyone on here ever been to Summer Session? It looks amazing, and if I got in I would want to major in Speech and Debate and minor in either International Relations or Introduction to Arabic. </p>
<p>I have a friend that's interested in it as well, and it would be great if we could both go.</p>
<p>Also, if I were to go to Andover Summer Session, do you think if I applied to Andover the following year it would increase my chances of acceptance because they might think that since I experienced the school a bit they may know that I must have really liked it if I applied to be a student?</p>
<p>my cuz went to st. georges as a day student a few summers ago when i was visiting. she had a lot of homework to do when she was out of school, so it's intense. she went to bring up her grades before applying to other boarding schools, but there are always overachievers looking to get ahead (at andover, you can take trig and precal at the same time, which substitute a year of precal.. in what, 5 weeks?)..so there are the overachievers and the remedial kids who want to (or need to, by their parents' wrath) bring up their grades.</p>
<p>FA isn't much i dont' think. LOTS of international students (at all summer programs.. i'm not sure what it is.. well, i guess it's like us going to europe in the summer.. except, this is america. lol..). i think they work 6 days a week? if not 7?? yikes.</p>
<p>Going to the summer session would increase your chances of acceptance, but not in the way that you thought. They would take more notice because it means you've been exposed to work about at the level expected of the Andover pupils in the normal school year, so they would assume you could handle it better and perhaps have been better exposed to the boarding environment there.</p>
<p>blair, I don't need a lot of financial aid. I have $1,000 saved up anyway, but I don't want to use my life savings on a summer program. lol. I'd be willing to spend some of it, though.</p>
<p>I'm sure my grandmother wouldn't mind paying the difference. She's all for academics!</p>
<p>The summer program is not nearly as rigorous at any prep as the regular program. The competition is not the same as they take most applicants, many of the teachers are just hired for the summer...it's just a whole different thing. Don't think it helps in admissions.</p>
<p>It probably helps a little bit, suze. Just not a whole lot. One thing is that a teacher might really like you, and then you would have a connection when you applied later.</p>
<p>Most of the teachers are not the same as those who teach year round. The only help I see is that they know you know the school. You've spent extensive time there. This makes their yield prediction stronger if you're a highly competitive candidate.</p>
<p>You need to understand, they'll take just about anyone who can pay during summer sessions.</p>
<p>Then I'm sure it true jonathan, but most will be young, new teachers. Andover (and I'm sure other school) teachers treasure their summers. Most go off and do interesting things like teach abroad, research, pleasure travel. They can even get grants from the school for summer projects.</p>
<p>my sister went to the Andover summer program session. she said that the program is exteremly challenging and that some of her roommates parents just sent them off to the program to get rid of them. she said that some kids even went to NYC on the weekends( thats 300 miles away). but she said she rly enjoyed it and that students who really want to learn should go. i also asked her if goin would increase my admission, however, she said no. summer school is summer school and that the program doesnt give you sence of what Andover is rly like. the only reason they do these porgram is because the school is out of the summer and the school wants to make money</p>