<p>Tobsta:</p>
<p>Was there a curfew or rules on where you could go?</p>
<p>What did you usually do while not in class?</p>
<p>david06, both my brothers went to Harvard Summer School and loved it.</p>
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david06, both my brothers went to Harvard Summer School and loved it.
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<p>Do you know what courses they took?</p>
<p>if you speak a language...exchange programs are SO much fun i did one through AFS this summer...one of the best times of my life</p>
<p>hmmmm...i'll have taken four years of (honors) German by summer, but don't speak fluently. Would i be able to function at an exchange program? I am taking AP 5 next year.</p>
<p>definitely...i took 3 years of honors spanish and picked up so much of the language before i left...if you have the opportunity i would recommend it to anyone...the program i did was 5 weeks i met so many people that i still keep in touch with...germany would be amazing too im sure</p>
<p>and im taking AP spanish this year and it is a breeze...it definitely helps a lot</p>
<p>Does anyone know a summer school/college prep program thats under 3 thousand that offers the most college credit classes that one could take? Im looking and Harvard, PSU, and Brown but they are all so expensive for only 6 credit hours.</p>
<p>You might check out the Hoagies Gifted Site. They have a lot of information about summer programs and college programs for high schoolers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/summer.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/summer.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.earlycollege.com/earlycollege/quality.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.earlycollege.com/earlycollege/quality.htm</a></p>
<p>Also, the MIT MITE2S site has a list of summer programs.</p>
<p>Now I have a questions - has anyone attended the Summer Science Program Ojai, California or at Socorro, New Mexico?</p>
<p>Last summer I attended Columbia's Summer Program for High School students and absolutely loved it (I am applying ED to Columbia). The program (at least the engineering course I took) was not intensive at all...but I do know from my roomates that they had some work (a lot of them were in writing courses). You have a large amount of freedom. You can go anywhere in the city on weekends...only rules are curfew rules which are a little early for my liking..but one deals because the experience was great.</p>
<p>Two summers ago I spent 3 weeks at Stanford partaking in the Summer Philosophy Institute. That was a great program as well. Very intensive (3 9 page papers in 3 weeks, plus 2 2 page papers a day) but it was great to get college credit as well as experience what life is like on a college campus. There are no curfew rules and no sleeping rules. Completely free. </p>
<p>I would highly recommend both programs.</p>
<p>david06.. did i have rules AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH omg, that couldnt be further from the truth. Here is verbatim what they said on the first night
There are very few rules here at Summer@Brown:
1 No drugs, if we catch you using, or posessing, or under the influence of any drugs, you will be immediately sent home
2 No alcohol, we have the same policy with alcohol as we do with drugs
3 You cannot spend the night in someone else's room, but there is no curfew
4 If you're gonna leave campus for a while, tell me [your RA] so in case ur rents call for some reason, i can tell them I know where you are</p>
<p>Just so you know, i broke rules 2-4, and could have broken rule 1 if i wanted, but i dont do drugs. One of my friends there was a girl who got caught breaking rules 1+2 the year before, they erase everything about u from their records if u get caught, and so she was admitted back to the program this year.</p>
<p>Outside of class, i just hung out alot, my class (Forensic Science) had no hw, so i had A LOT of free time, some of my other friends occasionally had hw to do. But basically we would chill on thayer street, we went to RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) twice, to chill with actual students, and kids at the RISD summer program, also we met some actual Brown students who were taking summer classes, and we would chill with them. It was incredible, i highly recommend it, and they have a billion classes, so you will def find something u like.</p>
<p>david06, at Harvard Summer School, my eldest brother took economics and went back for organic chemistry. My other brother just took economics.</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend a computer programming summer program?</p>
<p>Duke precollege is pretty fun, the six weeks go by way too fast. It's much stricter than the ivy league ones though, probably because it's done through TIP. My sister went to Cornell and we had WAY more rules than her, but it was still the best summer ever.</p>
<p>U of Chicago doesnt have a lot of rules either u dowhat u want but dont act stupid.</p>
<p>t1388 - i know cornell offers a programming course & one of the girls at my school went. i don't know much about it, but i know it exists. and i'm assuming that schools with other pre-college summer programs (stanford, carnegie mellon, etc.) would have similar classes.</p>
<p>Techiedork, thanks, but my son is too young to go to the Cornell Camp. He is only in the 8th grade. He went to a computer camp last summer. It was fun and he learned how to program Visual Basic. However, I think the camp has too much computer gaming time. I am looking for some camps where he can learn structure programming, play sports and chill out with his friends. I will appreciate any suggestion.</p>
<p>Over30 - one of my students attended the summer science inst. in New Mexico this past summer and had a fabulous experience. She feels like she has made lifetime friendships. It was pretty intense - something like 6 hours a day of classes plus evening viewing time on the telescopes. They were doing some sort of original research, which they had to write up and present at the end. She has been on the Science Bowl team that I coach both last year and this year, and I can really tell that she learned a ton of astronomy in between. Did you have any specific questions I can ask her and get back to you?</p>
<p>He wants to know if it will be challenging (this is a requirement) with enough down time to play frisbee and hang out with the other campers. He's always been interested in anything space related and thinks this looks promising. He will have taken precalculus and honors chemistry & biology, and is prepared to work hard, but wants to have fun too. Thanks!</p>
<p>I was in the forensic science program at Brown, too! What dorm were you in?</p>