<p>Does anyone know of any respectable (Let's say around Top 100, 150) colleges that offer summer programs or classes to students who are not enrolled in their college and have not been accepted into it for the upcoming Fall semester? I'm a freshman at the University of Kentucky, and to raise my GPA and also have more classes under my belt I am planning to do something over the summer that will grant me some legitimate college credit, hopefully for legitimate classes, such that the credits would probably transfer and the grades I got in those courses would be taken into consideration on my transcript. If possible, I am looking for programs in writing, Biology, Computer Science, and Chemistry. And, just in case, although I've researched this a bit, if there are any programs that are put on by Columbia, Yale, U Chicago, Cambridge U, or perhaps any similar unis, I would definetly like to know. Please reply ASAP about this, as I'm not sure when the deadline is to register for summer classes at UK and I would like to have time to mull this over, especially when it comes to the amount of money I'd probably have to pay for the programs. Thanks.</p>
<p>Just go to the websites for all the individual universities, thats where all the information about their summer programs is...</p>
<p>Thank you for your advice, but I am also wondering if perhaps there are schools that I have not thought of that may have good summer programs, therefore I could not visit the individual websites of those colleges as I do not know what they are yet. </p>
<p>I was told by someone on here who attended Yale's summer program that there are some non-Yalies who are college students who attend the summer programs, but Yale's website says that you have to be a junior or senior in high school, so I am not sure what to think.</p>
<p><em>i think</em> any school that has summer semester will enroll a visiting college student. you pay per credit. i did it at ucla as a high school junior and there were plenty of college students in my classes that did not go to ucla. you can use collegedata.com (free registration) to determine very easily, which schools offer summer semester and which schools do not.</p>
<p>Thanks for the website. I would figure that pretty much any school with a summer session would do as you say, but upon hearing of Columbia's Summer Program for high school students, I contacted them about attending some summer session classes (I was about to graduate high school at the time), and they said that such things arent available to students that do not attend there. Perhaps Columbia doesn't have a summer session . . . I can't see why . . .</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for the help and if anyone has any more advice on the subject then please post.</p>
<p>Most colleges open their summer sessions to students who do not attend. Harvard, UC Berkeley, UCLA, etc. Are you sure Columbia wasn't saying you could not attend their summer session because you were not yet a college student at the time?</p>
<p>Well, I asked someone at their admissions office if there was anything like that which I could possibly try out for in the future, and although this was a long time ago, I remember that she told me something like "No, there's nothing like that, except the program for students that are still in high school." But then again perhaps she was just a secretary or something and she did not know.</p>
<p>I am also wondering . . . Many have told me that attending a school's summer program in no way helps you with admission to that school and all that . . . Is this entirely true, or are there any possible negative ramifications I might face by, for example, attending Yale's summer session and applying to Columbia for transfer or vice versa? </p>
<p>And how likely is it that my credits would transfer to my current school or other schools? None of the classes that are available for Yale's summer session have the same names as any at the University of Kentucky, which is where I am now . . . What constitutes credit transfers at most schools? I've been told that schools only accept credits from other schools if those classes are analogous to classes that are in their curriculum, but what determines which classes are analogous?</p>
<p>You usually have to photocopy the course descriptions for that course out of that university(Yale)'s catalog and then your university, in this case Kentucky would decide if they had a course of similar content based on the description. A syllabus can also be used for this same purpose.</p>