Does anyone know of any summer programs that are slightly selective (think TASS, NSLI-Y etc.), but are for the summer after 9th grade. This is also for a 9th grader with a September 2001 birthday, so they won’t turn 15 until after the summer, which eliminates them from the NSLI-Y and state department programs which have a June 2001 deadline. Free is best, but around $1000-3000 is doable. Thanks!
Also they are interested in a lot of things including international relations, exchange, but also math and science, so any suggestions for a broad range of programs would be appreciated.
@rosered55 Thanks for the list! OUSMI and MMSS will be backups but we are looking specifically for something that is residential and for a longer time period (3 weeks+)
Check out MathPath. D2 worked there the summer after her sophomore year in college. It’s at Macalester next year. Expensive but I think there are scholarships. http://www.mathpath.org/whoapplies.htm
Check your local universities’ websites, some have excellent high school outreach/camp/summer college programs, some with competitive admissions/scholarships available.
There are amazing opportunities in online education. MOOCs are a great example of this. Taking classes online lets you learn in your off-hours so you can still have a work experience during the day. I have an online class that runs over the summer where I teach a group of freshmen and sophomores how to market themselves like a start-up company in order to stand out on college applications. Most of my sophomore students work during the day.
YYGS-Singapore. It’s an extension of the Yale Young Global Scholars program but its’s held in the Yale-NUS campus in Singapore and it’s for freshmen and sophomores. I think that if you’re an American applicant who’s interested and willing to go to Singapore for the experience, you have a very good chance of getting in because they want the diversity (and most applicants will probably be from the Australasia region)
Program is very liberal-arts based, and it’ll help if you want to apply for the original YYGS program later. Link here: http://yygssingapore.yale.edu/
Both RPI and WPI have summer programs that skew engineering / math. Reasonably priced. Our S did a one-week program at RPI summer after 9th grade. There’s also the PAN (Physics Atomic Nuclei) at Michigan State and Notre Dame - but that’s generally rising juniors and seniors. Our S attended summer before senior year. The PAN program is fairly competitive - while the RPI and WPI less so but they fill up quickly. If he’s into computers, iDtech has all sorts of programs hosted at different universities, many residential, some for 2 weeks. Not at all affiliated with the universities, but gives you a sense of living on a campus, etc. Lastly, if he qualifies for Johns Hopkins Gifted & Talented program they’ve got lots of great courses / programs - they were a bit out of our budget, but I always found them intriguing and I’ve heard good things from others.
@sweepscult Thanks for the response. How long was the course your son took? She wants at least around a 2 week course. Do you know if there were any rising sophomores?
My D also did Summer@Brown, twice in fact, 3 weeks each. There are courses from one week to 6 or 8. The first time she did it was the summer after 9th grade and she was young, she has a late summer birthday. She loved it.
The longer the class session, the higher the cost. There is excellent financial aid available but it is need-based and first-come first-serve.
Her classes were taught by Brown profs and/or grad students. Brown runs the program, it doesn’t just rent out the campus.
I don’t know anyone who applied and wasn’t accepted, I think any reasonably high achieving student can go.