Ninth, tenth and eleventh graders: if you want more of a direct, firsthand knowledge of what your college experience might be like, there are many options available. In particular, pre-college summer programs for high school students provide a good chance to get a taste of college before you get to your freshman year. This is, of course, in addition to all the other benefits of pre-college summer programs, such as opportunities for academic improvement, travel, hands-on work in particular fields, and sometimes even college credit. So what are you waiting for? Start looking into pre-college summer programs today. Here is a list of programs to get you started:
- Adelphi University: link
- Alfred University: link
- Arizona State University: link
- Babson College: link and link
- University of California at Berkeley: link
- Binghamton University: link
- Boston College: link
- Boston University: link
- BU Journalism Institute: link
- Brandeis University: link
- California Institute of the Arts (CalArts): link
- Carnegie-Mellon University: link
- University of Chicago: link
- Clarkson University: link
- Colgate University: link
- Columbia University: link
- UConn: link
- Cooper Union: link
- Cornell University: link
- Davidson College: link
- Denison University: link
- Duke University: link and link
- Georgetown University: link
- George Washington University: link
- Harvard University: link
- Ithaca College: link
- Johns Hopkins University: link
- Kenyon College: link
- Landmark College: link
- Marist College: link
- UMass-Amherst: link
- Miami University: link
- McGill University: link
- New York University (NYU): link
- Northeastern University: link
- University of Notre Dame: link
- Oxford Advanced Studies: link
- Paul Smiths College: link
- University of Pennsylvania: link
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI): link
- Rhode Island School of Design: link
- Ringling College of Art and Design: link
- Roger Williams U. Academy in Architecture: link
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: link
- Savannah College of Art and Design: link
- Skidmore College: link
- Smith College: link
- The University of the South: link
- University of Southern California (USC): link
- University of St. Andrew’s (Scotland): link
- Stanford University: link and link
- Syracuse University: link
- Tufts University: link
- Tufts Adventures in Veterinary Medicine: link
- UCLA: link
- US Air Force Academy: link
- US Coast Guard Academy: link
- US Military Academy: link
- US Naval Academy: link
- University of Vermont: link and link
- Virginia Commonwealth University (School of the Arts): link
- Washington University in St. Louis: link
- Wentworth Institute of Technology: link
- Yale University: link
More Summer Programs:
- The Experiment Leadership Institute
- Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP)
- COSMOS: California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science
- The Summer Science Program in Astrophysics
- Interlochen Center for the Arts, Michigan
- Bank of America Non-Profit Internship and Leadership Program
- MIT Recommended Summer Programs
- Concordia Language Villages
- Middlesex School’s list of summer enrichment programs
- College Greenlight has a list of programs that offer financial aid.
Want even more options? Check out this directory of summer pre-college programs.
A special thank you for my colleagues at the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS), who shared their summer program suggestions, which are included here.
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