My son did well at a certain name boarding school’s e-summer school last summer. Should he mention this and share the transcript with other boarding schools for which he is applying as a full-time regular student for next year, or mention it only to the school whose e-summer school it was?
The boarding school summer programs are just camps and are viewed as such by all schools with no impact on admissions so mentioning or not is up to you. Treat it the same way you’d treat any other summer experience.
If you think it shows achievement that is not evident on the rest of his transcript and/or it explains why he has skipped something in the normal progression of classes, I would be inclined to include it for everyone.
I would otherwise mention it as an activity/EC.
If it adds to the picture of who this student is, include it. I don’t think that school A will care it was at School B.
Personally, I don’t think that for middle schoolers, summer classes signal as much about the student as about the parent.
It may help show interest in a particular field of study (robotics, music), but on the whole, it will be close to a meaningless data point. The good news is that no admissions office will assume that because junior attended a rival’s summer program, they are more inclined to accept an offer from the other school. In other words, yield management will not play a part in the admissions process.
I think anything your kid did over an entire summer is relevant. (I’m going to assume that 3 months of anything had a positive impact on a kid that can be worked into the application narrative.). I think it shows that the child has had a teeny-tiny glimpse into the world in which they are asking to join. And whatever they studied shows some additional interest for the ECs/subjects that I’m guessing are elsewhere in the application.
(What it does not do, I’m going to guess, is impress anyone: “oh! he got an A at GrotvilleOver so he must be smart enough!” Not that you were asking that. But anyway I do think it’s relevant, if not particularly “impressive.”)