<p>Does anyone have any suggestions on coursework over the summer for an in-coming freshmen? D2 is looking for something like the University of Georgia offers for its new freshmen. They can come to campus after July 4th and take a couple of classes to get a head start and take pressure off their Fall/Spring load. </p>
<p>D2 will be in the Honors Program and has some potential housing for July/Aug, but not in June. She will have some AP credit I am sure but at this time we don’t know how much since her high school recommends waiting till your senior year for these tests. (I know. That’s crazy.) I would guess she’s got a good chance at getting credit for English Comp, foreign language 1st year, Math 125, maybe biology. She’s also looking at a double major possibility (maybe math and psych) and hopes she might get either UFE or CBHP since she’s a double finalist. (Maybe there are summer requirements for these program? I don’t know and it’s way premature to ask.) But D2 doesn’t want to overload in the fall so she would like to get some hours in the summer, but unsure of what might be available. Any good core classes or honors possibilities out there for the Summer II term? </p>
<p>Dr. Halli did tell us that he still does the Oxford Experience during Summer II which I think he said was good for 6hrs credit? Maybe 3 in Soph lit and 3 in an honors art/culture class? But perhaps that’s a bit much for an in-coming freshmen. We can always do the Jr. College gig in later summers I know, but we were wondering if UA had anything for this coming summer?</p>
<p>Since your D doesn’t actually have AP credits yet, it’s hard to say. She won’t get her results until very late June/early July. (Are you saying that her school has kids take AP classes in soph/junior years, but they don’t take the exams until senior year? If so, that’s insane. I doubt that they’d have many high scores 4/5s if that were the case.
It’s sounds like they just don’t want the disruption of AP exams in early May for younger students. Still - very crazy!</p>
<p>No summer req’ts for UFE or CBH.</p>
<p>I don’t know if any honors classes are held in the summer. I actually doubt it. **There are some core classes, but it would seem to me to be too expensive to take any as an OOS student plus room/board. ** It would be better if she just took a class at her CC if she really wants to do that.</p>
<p>Even for an instate student, one 3 credit class would be about $1000 plus room/board. For an OOS student it would be about $2550 plus room/board. Kind of expensive for something that could be much cheaper at a local CC.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up on the summer Oxford program. Son is definitely interested in that. But want to wait until he’s a bit older before he goes overseas. You’re talking about Oxford, England, right? Was wondering as well if there are any summer requirements for honors program and/or CBHP.</p>
<p>If your D wants, she could take a class to fulfill her Fine Arts req’t at a local CC, but I would advise against that only because the UHP has a few really cool classes that fulfill that req’t.</p>
<p>Your D is at a disadvantage because at this point, she has not AP credit/exams yet, so it’s hard to suggest a class. If the local CC will let her take an English Lit class (w/o previous freshmen comp credit), then that might be a suggestion. Or, perhaps Psych 101.</p>
<p>I would not suggest registering for any summer classes until you get confirmation from UA that the credits will transfer for what you want. Literature seems to be a class that UA does not like to transfer because UA’s literature courses are more specific (ie British Literature II). As a quick look to see if courses will transfer, this site <a href=“https://ssb.ua.edu/pls/PROD/rtstreq.P_Searchtype[/url]”>https://ssb.ua.edu/pls/PROD/rtstreq.P_Searchtype</a> can help. There is no guarantee that your courses will transfer the same as a previous student’s did, but it gives a good idea.</p>
<p>Remember too that study abroad courses during the summer are charged at in-state rates. At OOS rates, I would not recommend taking summer courses at UA unless you had to. Dr. Halli and I had a long discussion about UA’s summer terms and seem to agree that something needs to be modified to attract more students to stay for the summer.</p>
<p>All things considered, I do recommend taking summer courses if possible. Just consider the costs, course transferability, and contact UA to see if the student needs to sign a letter of transiency, incoming freshman may be exempt from the last step, but I don’t know. A few universities don’t assess OOS tuition during the summer, but none seem to be located in the South.</p>
<p>Yeah, without spending that NMF abroad money, it looks like a CC summer term two class would be the way to go. I agree with Dr. Halli and Sea Tide though in that Universities in general should offer much more in the summer for 2 reasons: 1: the average undergrad career is starting to drag out longer these days, often because the (non-honors?) kids can’t get all their selections in the fall/spring and, 2: most of the non-honors kids are in apartments and condos (some really expensive) with one-year leases (or they buy them outright). These kids would probably prefer to stay in their college town and take summer classes, keep the pool, friends and parties too. UGA says that their stats show the early-bird freshmen do better because they get to know the campus and get their academic feet wet with out as much stress as beginning cold turkey in the fall. Probably saves a lot of them that extra semester at the end of their undergraduate career too–which can be much more expensive than a summer when you factor in an additional apartment/condo lease for 6 months…if you can get it.</p>