Summer College Programs 2012

University of Notre Dame

Summer Scholars

Stimulate your spirit.

Exercise your mind.

Participate in Summer Scholars!

July 8 – July 21, 2012

Learn more about this unique opportunity for exceptional students to explore one of a number of academic fields of study.

For two weeks, participants become part of Notre Dame through study, service, and spiritual encounters.

Summer Scholars is a unique opportunity for academically outstanding high school students to explore one of several academic fields of study. For two weeks, participants become part of the Notre Dame student body, through their academic studies, social interactions, and spiritual encounters.

In the classroom, some of Notre Dame’s finest faculty members engage their students in academic study and fieldwork. Simultaneously, students experience the social and spiritual connections that are integral components of residential life at Notre Dame. Immersed in this positive atmosphere, students become personally enriched through interaction with new friends and mentors.

Programs of Study

  • Acting for Stage and Screen
  • “All Roads Lead to Rome”
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Film
  • Galileo and the Church
  • Life Sciences
  • Literature
  • Policy Debate and Public Speaking
  • Pre-Law
  • Psychology
  • Research Computing Expeditions
  • Theology
  • Voice: Opera and Song

Admission and Tuition

Application Process

The application deadline is February 15, 2012. All materials must be submitted or postmarked by that date in order to be reviewed. Enrollment is limited and we encourage you to apply early. Decision letters will be mailed to all applicants (postmarked) by April 30, 2012.

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Program Costs

All applicants must submit a nonrefundable application fee of $50 that is not applied to the tuition amount. A nonrefundable enrollment deposit of $250 must be submitted once a student has been notified of his or her acceptance to Summer Scholars. This enrollment deposit must be paid online o by June 29, 2012, to secure a place for the student in the program. The enrollment deposit will be applied to the total tuition amount. Tuition payments are non-refundable.

Tuition/Housing

Tuition and housing fees are $2,800. This amount includes room and board, as well as extracurricular activities and class field trips. (Note: Life Science track students will be charged a $150 lab fee, in addition to tuition and housing.) The tuition and housing cost balance must be paid in full and received, by the Office of Pre-College Programs paid online by June 29, 2012.

A note for South Bend area students: Campus residency is an important aspect of every college student’s life, and it is an essential component of the Notre Dame experience. All Summer Scholars participants are required to live in one of Notre Dame’s residence halls.

Summary of Costs

Tuition/Housing: $2,800
Deposit (paid online by June 29): non-refundable $250

Tuition/Housing Balance (paid online by June 29) $2,550
(Life Science Students, will include a $150 lab fee) $2,700

Office of Pre-College Programs
202 Brownson Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5601

Telephone: 574.631.0990
Fax: 574.631.8964
Email:

The Summer Academy at St. John’s College

A Great Week with Great Works

Annapolis, Maryland: June 24-30, 2012
Santa Fe, New Mexico: June 24-30 and July 1-7, 2012

Get a taste of freedom this summer. Spend a week (or two!) at St. John’s College exploring great ideas with other high school students. Modeled on the St. John’s Program, the Summer Academy offers participants a rich experience reading and discussing original texts in small discussion classes with faculty members experienced in guiding thoughtful and lively conversations. Students will learn to read texts closely, question their assumptions about the ideas they encounter in them, articulate their own ideas clearly through collaborative inquiry and dialogue, share insights, and listen actively.

Each campus is located in a dynamic and historic state capital, rich with natural beauty and cultural opportunities available to the group through coordinated excursions. Students live in the dormitories with undergraduate Summer Academy staff, as well as an adult Senior Resident.

Open to rising high school juniors or seniors and to graduating seniors taking gap years. Tuition: $990. Includes room, board, books, and cultural excursions.

2012 Curriculums (listed by week):

Annapolis, June 24 - 30, 2012

Seminar
Plato, Apology of Socrates
Epictetus, Handbook
Plutarch, Life of Cato
Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Language Tutorial
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mathematics Tutorial
Questions on Multiplication
Euclid, Elements, Book VI, VII
Descartes, Geometry
Viete, Introduction to the Analytical Art

Santa Fe, June 24 - 30, 2012: Beginnings

Seminar
Aeschylus, Promethus Bound
The Bible, "Genesis"
Plutarch, "Romulus"
W.H. Auden, "Unpredictable but Providential"

Language Tutorial
Herodotus, Histories, Book II
The Bible, "Genesis"
Rousseau, "Essay on the Origin of Language"

Mathematics Tutorial
Euclid, Elements, Book I
Plato, Meno

Laboratory
Archimedes, "On the Equilibrium of Planes"

Santa Fe, July 1 - 7, 2012: Friendship and Love

Seminar
Plato, Phaedrus
Aristotle, Ethics
Cicero, On Friendship, or Laelius

Language Tutorial
Sappho, poems
Dante, Divine Comedy
Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

Mathematics Tutorial
Ptolemy, Almagest

Music Tutorial
Gallilei, Dialogo Della MusicaAntica e Della Moderna
Monteverdi, L'Orfeo

Download the 2012 application form here.

Read more about the Annapolis Summer Academy 2012 here.
Read more about the Santa Fe Summer Academy 2012 here.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Roberta Gable (Annapolis)

PO Box 2800
Annapolis, Maryland 21403
1-800-727-9238
410-269-7916 (FAX)

Kathleen Longwaters (Santa Fe)

1160 Camino Cruz Blanca
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508
1-800-331-5232
505-984-6162 (FAX)

Emory Pre-College Program:Discover College Life This Summer!

Two-Week Non-Credit Courses

The Emory Pre-College Program offers a diverse selection of two-week non-credit courses in a variety of disciplines. Students will experience college-level academics in a small class setting with some of Emory's leading experts in their respective fields and will receive written feedback on their work at the end of the course. Pre-College students will also receive a grade of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory and a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the program.

All non-credit courses meet from9:00-11:30am dailyand may have additional requirements (excursions, film viewings, etc.) in the afternoons or evenings. In addition to their coursework, each Pre-College student will participate in College 101 sessions which are held in the afternoons (read more here).Students may only register for one Pre-College course per two-week session, but we do welcome students to enroll in multiple courses in consecutive sessions.

Session A: July 1 - July 14, 2012
Session B: July 15 - July 28, 2012
Session C: July 29 - August 11, 2012

Six-Week Credit Courses

Emory Pre-College students may enroll alongside Emory undergraduates in a variety of regular six-week courses for credit. Pre-College students will earn four hours of college credit for each of the following courses. Two six-week sessions are available:

Session 1: May 21 – June 29, 2012 (commuter students only)

Session 2: July1 – August 11, 2012 (residential program available)

Apply

Applications for summer 2012 are now being accepted! Click here to start the online application.

Application deadline:
Rolling, preferred by May 15, 2012

Courses are filled on a first-come basis, so apply early to ensure availability!
Tuition and Fees

Two-Week Non-Credit Course
Commuter $2385
Residential $3365
Six-Week Credit Course (Four Credits)*
Commuter $5469
Residential $9009

Tuition and fees cover the cost of all programs and off-campus events. Residential fees include room and board and three daily meals.

Vanderbilt Pre-College PAVE

2012 PAVE -- General Information for High School Communication Purposes

SUMMER: Engineering, Pre-Medicine, Science, and Technology

Concise program information:
The 2012 PAVE program at Vanderbilt University, celebrating its 22nd anniversary, is a summer pre-college program designed to strengthen the academic skills of students who are planning to enter a college engineering, pre-medical, science, or technology program, and ease the transition from high school to college. PAVE is open to high school students who are in the 11th grade (class of 2013) or 12th grade (class of 2012) during the 2011-2012 school year. More information can be found via the PAVE website at

Cost: $4,170 tuition. Need-based financial support is available.

Program dates: June 25 through August 5, 2012. Make-up and wrap-up sessions will be provided for students who need to arrive late or leave early.

Application deadline: April 20, 2012. Completed applications are evaluated as they are received.

Main website:

Contact information:
Prof. John Veillette, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Founder and Director
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B 351736
Nashville TN 37235
Tel: 615-322-7827
Fax: 615-322-3297
Email:

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Summer Camps

The David J. Sencer CDC Museum continues to offer its popular summer program for high school students:

  • CDC Disease Detective Camp is a week-long day camp for rising high school juniors and seniors that exposes students to epidemiology, the field of public health and the diverse career opportunities within the field of public health. Two separate, but identical iterations of the camp are held each summer.
  • Dates: June 18-21, and July 16-20, 2012
  • Times: 8:45-4:00pm
  • Location: CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA

For application information, please read the CDC Disease Detective Camp FAQ.

The David J. Sencer CDC Museum is also excited to offer pilots of two new summer educational experiences:

  • CDC Junior Disease Detective Camp (Junior Camp): The Junior Camp is a three-day camp for rising 7th and 8th graders. Attendees will learn basic epidemiologic terms and sample a number of public health fields.
  • Dates: June 11-13, 2012
  • Times: 8:30-3:00pm
  • Location: CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
  • Epi Intense: A two-day program for rising high-school juniors and seniors with prior exposure to epidemiology. Using Epi Info software, students will design an epidemiologic study and will analyze data from the study during the course session.
  • Dates: July 9-11, 2012
  • Times: 8:30-3:00pm
  • Location: CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Who can apply?

The CDC Disease Detective Camp is open to motivated students who will be high- school juniors or seniors during the 2012-2013 school year. Applicants must be 16 years old by the first day of the camp in order to comply with CDC’s laboratory safety requirements.No exceptions can be made to this rule.

How do I apply?

Applications are available here. If you have trouble downloading the application, please call 404-639-0830 to have an application mailed to you.

Instructions for completing the application can be found on page 1 of the application. Applications will only be accepted by mail. All documents must be mailed together, so be sure to double check that your application, essays, Recommendation Form and proof of age are included. Once your application is received, you will receive a confirmation email.

Otis College of Art and Design:

Summer of Art

July 9 - August 3, 2012
Summer of Art 2012 Registration begins February 27th!
Registration materials will be posted soon!

This intensive, four-week, pre-college program is for individuals 15 and older who wish to study at one of the top art and design colleges in the country. Serious young artists seeking to strengthen and enhance their art skills as well as students with limited art training are invited to participate. Summer of Art is not suited for students in search of a recreational program.
The 2012 Brochure is coming soon. To be sent a brochure when it is available, use the Rush Me Info form. For additional questions please call (310) 665-6864, or email

Courses
Small classes ensure personalized, in-depth learning. Rigorous course work includes hands-on studio classes and labs in both a chosen Area of Concentration (three days per week) and Foundation Studio (two days per week). Courses meet 9:00am to 4:00pm Monday through Friday and include homework. 3 units of college credit are awarded upon successful completion of the program. (Note: Summer of Art is not suited for students in search of a recreational program.)

Faculty
Summer of Art courses are taught by award-winning instructors that are practicing professionals, many of whom teach in Otis' Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts programs. Contact with these instructors provides a glimpse into the working lives of professional artists and designers and introduces students to many career choices in art, design and related fields.

Final Exhibition
Working with their instructors, each student selects his or her best work for the final exhibition. The work is displayed throughout the campus, giving students the experience of being part of a gallery show with their peers, while sharing their artwork with family and friends.

UGA

The Terry College of Business

Summer Residency Programs for High School Students

  • Terry Business Academy
  • Accounting Residency Program
Terry Business Academy
  • Dates: June 3–9, 2012
    June 24–30, 2012
  • Location: Athens, Georgia
  • Cost: Free of charge, thanks to a generous gift from Deloitte
  • Overview: The Terry Business Academy is an intensive one-week program that will expose rising high school juniors and seniors to the various fields of business. Each student will gain practical experience developing and presenting a business plan. Participants will learn about different business majors and career paths and will visit corporate headquarters to meet executives and professionals in various industries.

Georgetown University

If you are thinking about a career in medicine, the Medical Programs for High School Students offer the perfect way to explore the traditional disciplines, as well as hear timely presentations on a variety of current topics and medical breakthroughs.

They can participate in the eight-day Medical Institute at Georgetown giving them the opportunity to meet with faculty and scientists, work with cutting edge patient simulators and tour the world renowned facilities at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Students can also apply to the five-week Fundamentals of Medicine program to learn more about medicine while experiencing campus life in Washington, DC. Both programs are in partnership with the Georgetown University Medical Center utilizing a curriculum designed by Medical Center Faculty.

Medical Institute Dates:

June 24 – July 1

July1 – 8

July 8 – 15

July 15 – 22

Fundamentals of Medicine Dates:

July 8 – August 11

Space is limited. Help your students reserve their place today!

SCS.GEORGETOWN.EDU/summermedicine

Millsaps College

International Cultural Awareness Program

June 18- 28, 2012

Millsaps College is proud to announce the 2012 International Cultural Awareness Program (ICAP). This is a 10-day summer program designed to cultivate cultural awareness and understanding of developing countries. The world has never been more global, and this program offers exemplary high school students the opportunity to understand the international dimensions of world societies by interacting with renowned faculty and by immersing themselves in an international setting on a 5-day trip to Yucatan.

For more information: icap.millsaps.edu

The application process is simple. Complete the ICAP application form and mail the application form along with the following supporting documents to the Millsaps College Office of Admission.

  1. Official High School Transcript (and PSEO transcripts, if applicable)
  2. Letter of Recommendation From Your Guidance Counselor

Cost: $3,995 includes everything but travel to and from Millsaps campus in Jackson, MS, athe the start and end of the program

2012 ICAP Application

The application deadline is April 15, 2012. Students who complete their application before the April 15 deadline will receive a $100 credit towards the cost of the program. Mail your supporting application documents to:

Millsaps College
Office of Admissions
ATTN: ICAP
1701 N. State St.
Jackson, MS 39210
Tel: 1-800-352-1050
Fax: 1-601-974-1059
E-mail:

If you are a rising senior in high school, there are not many programs that will help you:

  • Study world societies with renowned faculty
  • Travel internationally
  • Earn college credit

But the International Cultural Awareness Program at Millsaps College lets you do this and more.

SCAD:

Pre-college: Rising Star

  • Rising Star
  • Competition Opportunities

This challenging five-week program awards college credit to rising high school seniors who are ready for a summer college experience. Students enroll in two college-level classes and have the opportunity to build or enhance their visual arts portfolios.
At SCAD Savannah, Pre-college: Rising Star participants have access to university facilities, including classrooms, computer labs, studios, production suites, libraries, galleries, theaters, bookstores and fitness centers. Students live in a SCAD residence hall and have their meals at a SCAD dining facility.
All courses are taught by SCAD professors; maximum class size is
20 students.
A closing exhibition of student work is held at the end of the program.
Savannah
June 23-July 28, 2012

View the Summer at SCAD brochure for course descriptions.
Admission
Admission to Pre-college: Rising Star is highly selective and preference is granted to applicants with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale, a strong visual arts portfolio, and demonstration of maturity, leadership and responsibility.

Admission Requirements

  • Completed online application and $35 application fee. Applications should be submitted before supporting documents. Be sure to select Summer 2012 as the intended entry term.
  • Official high school transcript
  • Visual portfolio
  • One recommendation (forms are available online at The recommendation should be completed by a teacher in the student's main area of interest. Supplemental recommendations may be completed by teachers, counselors or community leaders. Recommendations may not come from family members unless the student is home-schooled. Admission Recommendation Form
  • A 500-word statement of purpose providing an overview of the applicant's academic and personal experience and readiness for college study

Supplemental Requirements