So, I understand that daughter is in good hand for planning future courses and afterschool activities at her BS. They know her unique background and are the professionals whom I can depends on.
How about her Summer activities? Is it completely on me to help her or do they also discuss that with the students?
I think it’s up to the family. Since students return home and available activities at home vary, I imagine it is difficult for them to advise other than giving general guidance.
DS school has a summer activities/gap year fair each winter. There is a list of organizations you can explore. The school has a few trips each year - spring break or beginning of summer. They are usually affiliated with a department, team or music group.
Sometimes a teacher will recommend that a student apply to/look at something for the summer (i.e., a theater program, sports camp, or programming internship ), but you shouldn’t depend on that. They might be willing to discuss options with you, but you should plan on taking the lead in this.
For the most part, you are on your own, however I think your daughter could always discuss things with her teachers and see if they have any programs to recommend.
Also, visit the summer program section of CC.
What are your thoughts for your daughter’s summer?
Nothing wrong with staying home and getting a job. 
Right now the chance is combination of taking art classes at community colleges and universities. Also selective art camps and atelier workshops are considered.
BS so far has been more academically challenging than we imagined. I didn’t expect 4 essays turned in during the first 3 weeks of a freshmen English class. So there seems is less time to satisfy her creativity during school years.
She might consider something else if she is advised that just art art art is too lopsided for adcoms’s taste. We are trying to figure out optimal depth and width of EC for her.
I think lopsided can be good - if you have a specific talent and if the academic strength is also there, as it is for your daughter. It helps to have an application that paints a picture and being lopsided can help with that.
IME, colleges are trying to build a well-rounded class, not looking for a class of well-rounded students. While one can argue that your daughter might want to explore something other than art, there is no need to have a breadth of EC’s.
My children have planned their own summer activities while in high school. They know that I will support them in what they choose and they know a general budget, but otherwise, they figure this out for themselves.
There is a real need to decompress especially after the first year… boarding school is very intense and non stop, like really… non stop. Summer break is unique to everyone’s needs. It is a long time from now… best to revisit this in Dec/Jan… or just let it go for the first year…
It seems so true about being intense and non stop. Although D’s school has 2 semesters, it’s more like 7 periods each with own exams and grade reporting. Although, she just realized that she is managing without heavy intake of caffeine and is not sleep deprived, so it must be less stressful then last year.
D wants to have academic-less, adventure-less and job/volunteer/research/internship-less Summer, just doing ceramic sculpture and rock climbing. Sounds very good to me. This is the current plan.
Boy @SculptorDad you are very eager and seem to want to have your DD’s life scheduled out way too far. Why not just let it be for now – let her settle into her new school and worry about next summer, well next summer… I say this in the nicest of ways honestly. I’m stressing out for you!
@MAandMEmom , I would love to worry about Summer schedule later. But some of them have due dates as early as in 3 weeks (NSLI-Y - Oct 27) or rolling admission that fills up quick. CSSSA has Feb 28 due, but since it requires 3 specific art pieces (visual art program) and BS is so busy, the only way to apply for DD is spending her Winter break for that.
I believe that this statement sums up @MAandMEmom 's concern that your D’s life is being overscheduled.
On a related note, you are aware that the odds of getting accepted for NSLI-Y as a freshman are somewhere between slim and none, right?
NSLI-Y was just an example. D is only applying to CSSSA and it still takes planning ahead.
Now you’re stressing ME out! DD is applying to NSLI-Y and hasn’t started her essays yet. She doesn’t have time right now (she’s leaving for a weeklong school trip tomorrow). But she has learned to plan out not only her work, but her “worry” as well. So, she can’t work on it now and therefore won’t worry about it until the time comes that she CAN work on it. A bit close to the deadline for my taste, but I’m not the one applying 
@GMC2918, good luck for your DD! I am sure she will finish it on time and superbly! Please share how she enjoyed the program later if she gets in. I have heard life-altering (actually just career defining) good story from a past participant.
If CSSSA was due in 3 weeks and my DD hasn’t started, she might have to give it up even though she already as a detailed plan. It will take 20~30 hours of clay work, dry it, bisque fire, glazing, then firing it again. And that is if she makes only one new piece and reuses her previous artworks for 2 of the 3 required pieces.
Missing the deadline or not getting accepted would be totally fine. But she wants to try CSSSA for next Summer still the same. She wanted to do it during the Winter so I am arranging it with a local ceramics place. It’s a large piece with high temperature rating, so it can’t be done with home equipment. I have some experience in placing her in adults facilities and I think I will manage.
CSSSA is far less competitive than NSLI-Y. And I feel a bit more confident now that she has been accepted to 3 juried national shows. 1~2 could be pure luck but 3 means something I hope.
I recently asked how she is managing her busy schedule. She said she writes essays faster now and overall it’s getting easier. She said she just realized how now is less busy and stressful than last Fall because she is apparently managing fine without caffeine / sugar addiction and sleep deprivation.
The strict lights-out policy and study hall definitely teaches time-management skills! Learning to be efficient and set priorities is a tremendous benefit of boarding life in my opinion. She’s a smart girl and will figure out how to manage it all @SculptorDad - but I’m sure will make a few mistakes along the way. The sculpture project sounds cool; what is CSSSA?
She totally didn’t have the strict light control last year. How can I turn off her light when she as a final? Instead I stayed some nights with her, or got up at 5 without protest to quiz her what she had memorized overnight. Some nights she stayed awake, other days she slept till late afternoon. It was definitely not healthy and not a good habit. For that I am very happy with bs.
http://www.csssa.ca.gov/ is a California state subsidize high school art camp at CalArts campus. She can choose Visual Arts and then “major” ceramic sculpture. It seems very good, and the best that accepts 9th grade applicants. I am hearing that it is competitive, but not so much. I think dd has a reasonable chance. I like that it had her think about her first ever piece conveying a social issue, which reflects her mind’s growing up.