The benefits is learning and exploring interests. Would you be taking classes that interest you at Brown? Would you have the classes have real Brown students too? If the classes are in English, math or an interest area, it has to be better than a random summer job.
Summer@Brown has both non-credit and for-credit courses. The latter can have Brown students in them too.
Does anyone know anything about the Carleton Summer Humanities Program or Stanford’s Summer Humanities Institute? They seem pretty pre-college to me, but apparently they have acceptance rates between 20-30%. Would colleges view them akin to Summer@Brown or a NYLF-type program?
I think if you’re considering mainly how a program looks to colleges, you’re not doing it right.
Brown may run summer college classes, but Summer@Brown is non-credit for “students completing grades 9-12 by June 2016.”
@OHMomof2 I’m not doing it just for colleges (they actually do appeal to me and align with my interests) but as they are expensive, I don’t want to cause any financial strain if they are deemed to be a run-of-the-mill pre-college program. Also, I’m applying to some prestigious writing programs, and in the off-chance that I do get into one of them, if I have to choose, due to scheduling constrains, between going to a renowned writing workshop vs. viewed-as-pre-college history-type summer program (even though ideally I could attend both since I am interested in both), I would choose the writing workshop.
EDIT: I realized just now that maybe you weren’t directly addressing me but the OP / students in general.
@lookingforward http://www.brown.edu/academics/pre-college/credit-courses.php
D was able to choose one of those or one of the non-credit summer courses, with her scholarship. IDK if the pre-bac is “technically” Summer@Brown but it’s all in the same area of their web site, and is also for HS students.
But this is Summer@Brown
http://www.brown.edu/academics/pre-college/pre-college-courses.php
They’re all under the umbrella of pre-college courses at Brown, certainly both are open to HS juniors and seniors to apply to, which was why I mentioned it. Leadership and BELL and such are under that umbrella too, and take place during the summer. The Dean’s Scholarship is available for all of them.
We can split these hairs but IDK what it would accomplish.
Pre-bacc is the undergrad summer session. Try this one
http://www.brown.edu/academics/pre-college/overview.php
It shows both. And look at the cost differences.
Maybe you did see that.
My point was (and is), that all are offered during the summer at Brown, all are open to high school students (juniors and seniors in the case of the for-credit pre-Bacc),and all are eligible for (significant) need-based aid in the form of the Dean’s Scholarship.
Taking the pre-Bacc courses and doing well is probably “more prestigious” than taking a non-credit course. And possibly useful, if one can use the credits at the school eventually chosen for college.
What are we disagreeing on, exactly, @lookingforward ?