NewsUpper SchoolAcademicsCollege Guidance
Colleges offer summer possibilities
Feb 15, 2002 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
Current sophomores and juniors who are looking for interesting and productive ways to spend the summer should consider the many special programs for high school students offered on college campuses around the country. The college guidance office has or will soon receive up-to-date brochures on a number of such programs, including those offered by Washington & Lee, Amherst, Emory, Duke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Sewanee, Cornell, Harvard, Georgetown, Rhodes, Hollins, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Denison, Wofford, Davidson, UVA, UNC-Chapel Hill, UCLA, Boston University,University of Colorado, Northwestern, Rhode Island School of Design, Art Institute of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Vermont, and others. There is also information on various study abroad and Outward Bound programs.
“One of the important ways in which students are evaluated by selective colleges is by how they use their out-of-class time – what they choose to do after school and in the summers,” said Sam Moss, associate headmaster and dean of college guidance. “Whether holding a summer job, doing volunteer work, working as a camp counselor, or taking advantage of a pre-college program – good, productive use of the student’s time is a big factor in measuring the student’s personal qualities. An added benefit of one of the programs on a college campus is that it gives the student a chance to preview a college in which he or she may be interested and get a first-hand look to see if it would be a good match.”
“One of the important ways in which students are evaluated by selective colleges is by how they use their out-of-class time – what they choose to do after school and in the summers,” said Sam Moss, associate headmaster and dean of college guidance. “Whether holding a summer job, doing volunteer work, working as a camp counselor, or taking advantage of a pre-college program – good, productive use of the student’s time is a big factor in measuring the student’s personal qualities. An added benefit of one of the programs on a college campus is that it gives the student a chance to preview a college in which he or she may be interested and get a first-hand look to see if it would be a good match.”
