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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The research programs cost 11-14K.  Even the regular "take a class for 3 weeks" program is charging almost 1K per week for room and board.  This is not an exercise in altruism or social justice.  Don't get me wrong - universities need all the revenue they can get nowadays - but the markup is real and so is the profit.[/quote]

This. These programs are money makers for the universities. A good way to squeeze out profit during the summer months. Rich people need stuff to spend their money on. And people often correlate higher priced programs with higher quality which may or may not be true [/quote]

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