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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WOW, these programs are expensive.  Just...wow.  I'm in higher education and am having a very hard time imagining value for money here.
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This is not fair.

They actually are roughly the same price per credit as the regular UChicago courses. The summer program is $8K for one course.  This course is a college class that awards credit.  The typical UChicago undergrad that is full pay costs $93K for 10-12 courses.

My child went last summer and had a wonderful experience.  He took an economics course that was challenging.  It had 20 students and the teacher was incredible. The weekend activities were well run.

It’s not cheap like a Boy Scout camp, but it’s also an entirely reasonable price for what you get.  Three weeks of dorm life, a world class instructor and planned weekend activities.

I will say that some of the courses (according to my son) seemed to be much easier and the teachers were scattered in quality.  If your child wants a challenge, stick with econ, physics or biology.  
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UC is making a huge per-capita profit on this enterprise.  So are other universities with HS summer programs.[/quote]
Hmm, they charge the same as normal tuition and also offer need-based aid.[/quote]

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