It’s time for high school students to start thinking about what they might want to do this summer. College admissions personnel expect summers to have been spent productively. They expect students to take advantage of available opportunities. There are a wide range of good options. Examples include working, volunteering or taking courses. Many colleges offer summer programs for high school students. The University of Delaware, for example, offers a five week residential program for high school juniors, where students take two courses (for college credit) and get a taste of college life (http://summercollege.honors.udel.edu/ ). If you don’t have five weeks to spend, other colleges offer programs of shorter duration. Ithaca College offers a one week and a three week residential pre-college program (http://www.ithaca.edu/summer_college/ ). Stevens Institute of Technology lets high school juniors and seniors earn college credit through The Euclid Program, an online program of Physics, Computer Science and Math courses (www.stevens.edu/undergrad/precollege.html ).
While I do not advocate doing something because it looks good on a college application, I do advocate doing something – anything you enjoy. After all it is summer vacation!
Marilyn G.S. Emerson, M.S.W., CEP
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