Seven great, unusual things to do this summer
All Vox students receive recommendations on summer activities that nurture their interests and abilities. At application time, colleges will look to your summers to see how you’ve invested yourself in your true interests. Now is the time to be thinking about and applying for academic, music, language, leadership, research and other enriching summer activities. Let us know your interests, and we can help. Here are a few you might not have heard about:
• Great Books Summer Program https://www.greatbookssummer.com/
Summer 2018, Amherst, Stanford, Dublin, Oxford, UChicago, Beijing
• Cambridge Summer Academy
http://cambridgesummeracademy.com/
This may be hard to believe, but this isn’t run by some company…this is actually Magdalene College’s own summer program for high school students! Truly gorgeous ancient college at the heart of the University of Cambridge, where Samuel Pepys and Alex Plumtree went to university/graduate school. Programs in Business and Management, International Relations, Medicine, and History.
• Summer at Smith https://www.smith.edu/sites/default/files/media/Documents/Precollege-Programs/Smith-Precollege-Programs.pdf
Summer Science and Engineering Program, July 8-August 4
Young Women’s Writing Workshop, July 8-21
• Rassias Language Programs, Dartmouth College http://www.rassias.com/
Language immersion in Arles, France; Gijón, Spain; and Trujillo, Peru
• UCLA Summer Sessions https://www.summer.ucla.edu/ushsstudent
For-credit sessions in Nanoscience, Acting, Dance, Digital Filmmaking, Model UN, Mock Trial, Nanoscale Microscopy, Game Lab; also shorter academic courses (list doesn’t seem to be available yet, registration opens Feb. 15)
• Health Careers Institute At Dartmouth: Mentoring Future Leaders in Health Care http://tdi.dartmouth.edu/health-careers-institute
Summer 2018, four sessions, one week. Dartmouth has a med school, and also the Dartmouth Institute For Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which offers degrees such as MPH (Master of Public Health), MS, Ph.D., MHCDS (Master of Health Care Delivery Science), MBA/MPH, MD/MPH, MD/MS…so lots of resources
• Savannah College Of Art and Design (SCAD) http://www.scad.edu/academics/pre-college-summer-programs/rising-star
Atlanta, Hong Kong, Savannah, and eLearning, four sessions, five weeks each, Summer 2018