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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another perspective: My kid attended a summer program at a very prestigious University. He was there the entire summer and took 3 college classes. It was an amazing experience and a lot of hard work (and fun). At the end, he didn't have any desire to apply to that particular college and didn't. He is a freshman at another highly selective college; I don't know if the summer helped get him in to all the places he got into, he was a great candidate even without it, but he will get credit for the classes and learned a lot from the experience. [/quote]

My DD has done this type of program for 3 summers at one of the schools named in the title.  She did not do the program to boost her chances of getting into the school and has since decided she's not even going to apply to that particular school.  However, she took classes with University professors and she found them very challenging.  She also got to experience college life and became much more independent.  It also exposed her to different topics and she has a better idea of what she wants to do when she grows up.  All valuable.  6 of the 15 or so kids she keeps in touch with were accepted to IVY's but I don't think it's because they went to the program at any particular school but rather they are high achieving kids who would have done well in the college admissions process anyway.  They just chose to spend their summers in a learning environment.  [/quote]

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