<p>Does anybody know of a reputable program that offers a course in high school chemistry that one could take, say, over the summer -- that isn't CTY?</p>
<p>Thanks,
Ben</p>
<p>Summer school.</p>
<p>One that isn't too bad is the Center for Talent Development. They have programs at Northwestern University (the main one) and Case Western, where they offer high school classes for credit or for enrichment. The programs are three weeks long. While I never took the Honors Chemistry class, I know people who did and I've heard that they were able to take their school's placement tests to pass out of the class.</p>
<p>Community college is under-rated, hehe.</p>
<p>Edit: probably not relevant.</p>
<p>There is Harvard Secondary Summer School.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ssp.harvard.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.ssp.harvard.edu/</a></p>
<p>I don't know if there are age requirements though.</p>
<p>at carnegie mellon, you can take college courses, including chemistry trough APEA. if you are an underrepresentative minority, you can apply through SAMS and tuition/room/board is free.</p>
<p>enjoy!</p>
<p>The advantage to taking a community college or university extension class is that the student will be exposed to far more lab experience than s/he will usually have in a high school course. Moreover, depending on what state you're in, fees for the community college may be waived for high school students (it's true of California). An Intro to Chem class is about equivalent to a high school chemistry class. </p>
<p>A program in which a student to simply takes one class seems a little absurd to me, and if you haven't heard of it, well, it's not likely to be so reputable, is it? I wouldn't recommend Harvard's SSP, simply because it's taught by TAs and is watered down -- and for what you pay for it, you might as well pay some guys at Tech to privately tutor and they'd probably do a better job of it. University extension/summer classes are probably your best bet.</p>
<p>Hope I was helpful. :)</p>
<p>CTY provides a list of other summer programs:</p>
<p><a href="http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/linkA.htm%5B/url%5D">http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/linkA.htm</a></p>
<p>However, I have too little time at present to look at individual details.</p>
<p>mebbe Stanford's summer school? I'm not positive. I know they offer Phys Chem.
There's also community colleges.</p>
<p>I don't know if anyone is still reading this but...</p>
<p>MIT offers free (no-credit, on your own) courses in a program called Open Course Ware(<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/index.htm)%5B/url%5D">http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/index.htm)</a>. For some of the courses, all of the lectures were videotaped and put online. I would highly reccomend this anyone who wants to learn on their own, I found one of the Physics courses quite helpful when I had a question about a certian concept.</p>