<p>Any specific suggestions on summer programs for incoming 10th graders? Prefer something that isn't 6 to 8 weeks long. Are there any good two or three week programs?</p>
<p>I think you may get more replies if you can be specific about what sort of programs you mean. There are fun programs, competitive programs, super competitive programs, those for college credit and those dedicated to research. If you can hone in on a subject area and basic content/speed, it will be easier to offer ideas.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins CTY and other talent search programs.</p>
<p>^^ That is false. CTY is not a good program for high school students if you’re looking at highly-competitive programs. I would go for your state’s governor schools.</p>
<p>The OP did not specify highly competitive, though. Some other options:</p>
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<li><p>Concordia Language Villages - language immersion camps, you can get credit if you go for a month to some of them. Lots of languages offered.</p></li>
<li><p>THINK at the Davidson Institute - if you have qualifying scores. Super intense, though.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I did JSA at Princeton the summer after 9th grade. Was pretty worthwhile at that age in my opinion.</p>
<p>Can’t find much for rising juniors that’s worthwhile going.</p>
<p>great books is really good</p>
<p>You know, I hear very little firsthand about the Great Books program, though it sounds quite fun for literature fans. Can you please elaborate? What made it “great”?</p>
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<p>Perhaps he just means reading good books? I’ve never heard of 'Great Book’s lmao</p>
<p>Great Books is a summer program for 1,2,3, or 4 weeks and is at Amherst and Stanford. There is a lot of information on their website. The program is split into an intermediate program and a senior program. the senior program is for high schoolers and the intermediate is for younger. there are very in depth discussions/lectures on the readings you do. you also get to choose 2 electives based on your interests. its really fun and very organized and planned out.</p>
<p>[Greatbooks</a> Summer Program](<a href=“http://www.greatbookssummer.com/]Greatbooks”>http://www.greatbookssummer.com/)</p>
<p>yup thats the website.</p>
<p>CTY eligibility test scores require 99%ile. It’s harder than you think…</p>
<p>I’ll have to follow this thread, I’m rather interested in freshman summer opportunities too.</p>
<p>Here’s the list that I’ve made so far:</p>
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<li> Mathcamp (5 weeks)</li>
<li> CTY (3 weeks)</li>
<li> MOSP (3-4 weeks)</li>
<li> Ross Mathematics Program (8 weeks)</li>
<li> MARS Math (2 weeks)</li>
<li> PROMYS (6 weeks)</li>
<li> AwesomeMath (3 weeks)</li>
<li> Hampshire College Summer Study of Mathematics (6 weeks)</li>
<li> TOPS Physics (2 weeks)</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: I made this list based off of programs that /technically/ are available to freshmen. They’re all pretty competitive, and some of them are more competitive than others, so some of them would be a huge long shot, especially for freshmen summer. (It probably wouldn’t be an understatement to say that it’s harder to get into MOSP than Harvard. I mean, that’s for the best handful of math students out of everyone who qualifies for the AIME and takes it.) Also, they’re all pretty math-and-sciencey. Hope it helps anyway.</p>
<p>Anything competitive/impressive that doesn’t have to do with math and wasn’t mentioned before?</p>
<p>The summer after my 9th grade year I did the Summer@Brown program. I thought it was really great because there is no set length, since it all really depends on what class you can take. I believe you can go anywhere from 1 week to 7 weeks. I think you can only get college credit if you take a 7 week course though, if that’s what your looking for. It worked really well for me, because I only wanted to do a short program. </p>
<p>Here’s the link to the website:
[Summer@Brown</a> - Pre-College Programs at Brown University | Brown University Office of Continuing Education](<a href=“http://brown.edu/ce/pre-college/]Summer@Brown”>Pre-College Program | Brown University)</p>
<p>I was wondering if someone could elucidate on the Great Books Program. It looks like it is a private program that has nothing to do with Stanford or Amhearst but uses their facilities. I also looked at the book lists and don’t see how you could read more than one or two of the books in a week. On the schedule you do Thoreau one half hour and Wardsworth the next half hour. How does it exactly work?
Thanks</p>
<p>for great books, you don’t read whole books. i read one last year but it was a shorter one. you read excerpts out of stories which they put in one big binder that you get to keep and annotate.</p>
<p>Any new ideas for freshmen?</p>
<p>Did you really enjoy the summer at brown program? :)</p>