This can help narrow down the college list and may assist your student in deciding where early applications will go. If your student loves creative writing or want to get better at it, consider this three-week program run by Bard College!
With a sister program in Massachusetts, both camps are fully residential and involve daily workshop-format classes, evening residential programming, and off-campus trips. Note that the application requires a letter of support from a teacher and a word personal story in prose. Participants may either commute or live on campus. If your student is a classical musician who wants to play chamber music, then this might be the camp for them!
Participants are coached daily and play in rehearsals, master classes, and 15 concerts over the course of two weeks. They also enjoy diverse electives in music theory and history, body mapping and performance anxiety techniques, handbell choir, conducting, international dance, and tennis. Note that first-time participants must audition or send a five-minute solo recording. These two-week camps are offered in five states and allow students to study topics like 3D modeling and printing, Scratch and MIT App Inventor, cybersecurity and cryptography, and more!
There are also elective offerings in Photoshop, coding languages, and game design. Perks include preparing a portfolio for college admissions, exploring the city of Chicago itself, and access to a museum featuring the third-largest collection of art in the world. Four sessions are available, allowing students to pick the one that fits best into their schedule. Merit scholarships can also help offset the hefty costs.
Deadline: Rolling — apply early, especially if interested in financial aid. So maybe Peoria and Chicago are too far up north…why not just stay in the cornfields? SIUE offers programs in the arts, sciences, engineering, and even entrepreneurship! Dates, details, and fees vary widely, so be sure to check out the offerings here.
If your child wants to be involved with steel band, jazz choir, or marching band, perhaps this is the camp for them! Note that specific camps may require audition materials. Grades: Varies by camp, but most are open to 9th, 10th, and 11th.
Deadline: Most are unspecified — check specific camps and apply early. Our free chancing engine takes into account your history, background, test scores, and extracurricular activities to show you your real chances of admission—and how to improve them.
Best of all, admissions are need-blind and based solely on audition results; need-based scholarships are available to support those requiring financial assistance. This week-long program offered by a downtown Chicago law firm offers aspiring attorneys a chance to explore the legal world. Despite having to read tons and writing an essay, I was still eager to jump out of bed and dash into class.
Students live in residence and attend class in-person. There is no hybrid or remote option for Immersion courses. Each summer course is the equivalent of a full, quarter-long 10 week course.
See individual course descriptions for prerequisites, if any. Session s Session I. Learn More. Biology and Its Modern Applications Session 1 This course aims at developing the basic concepts that form the crux of life from both structural and functional perspectives.
Biology and Its Modern Applications Session 2 This course aims at developing the basic concepts that form the crux of life from both structural and functional perspectives. Session s Session II. Biotechnology for the 21st Century Session 1 This course is designed to provide a stimulating introduction to the world of biotechnology. Biotechnology for the 21st Century Session 2 This course is designed to provide a stimulating introduction to the world of biotechnology.
Collegiate Writing: Awakening into Consciousness Session 1 How might we, as individuals and societies, sometimes remain unaware or ignorant? Collegiate Writing: Awakening into Consciousness Session 2 How might we, as individuals and societies, sometimes remain unaware or ignorant? Communicating Effectively: Free Expression, Civic Argument, and Public Advocacy Communication shapes our lives — personal, professional, and political. Creative Writing "What is education?
Democracy's Discontents Most would agree that in recent years the very idea of democracy has taken it on the chin, but might we also be learning that democracy has a glass jaw? Developmental Psychology: Theories and Techniques In just a few short years, infants go from helpless beings who cannot even hold their heads up to walking, talking, thinking people who are able to understand complex games, infer intentions in others, and even engage in reflexive thought i.
Economics from an Experimental Perspective A growing field in which the University of Chicago has been a leader, experimental economics uses experimental methods — observing everyday interactions and decisions made by people either in the lab or in the field — to explore economic questions ranging from how markets and other exchange systems work to what motivates people to make decisions about matters such as conserving environmental resources or donating to charitable causes.
Environmental Justice in Principle and Practice Students will learn about different types of environmental injustice and how they intersect with other social problems, including segregation, housing, the devaluing of the lives of people of color, and the geographic distribution of environmental ills. Explorations in Neuroscience: Neurons, Behavior, and Beyond How does the brain work, and how do changes in brain structure and function give rise to neurological conditions and deficits?
Fairy Tales and the Construction of Childhood In this course we will study fairy tales within the broader context of the history of childhood and practices of education and socialization.
Freedom of Expression and the Politics of Social Media Social media presents a variety of current case studies in which to examine the tensions between freedom expression, private industry, and government regulation.
Introduction to Creative Coding This course is an introduction to programming, using exercises in graphic design and digital art to motivate and employ basic tools of computation such as variables, conditional logic, and procedural abstraction.
Introduction to Proof-based Discrete Mathematics This course will introduce you to higher-level mathematical argumentation and proof, an understanding of which is crucial to making the transition from high school to undergraduate math coursework. What we take as given early on in the study of mathematics actually has reasoning behind it, and this course will show you how to begin to uncover and articulate that reasoning for yourself. Emphasis is placed on the novel features of special relativity, which notably states that time passes differently for different observers, and their consequences, which have been exquisitely verified in countless experiments over the past century.
Introduction to the Philosophy of Life and Death The focus of this course will be how philosophy arises in response to problems in the conditions of human life, especially our mortality and the prevalence of social injustice. These can be sources of alienation, suffering, and bad choices; they can also be sources of conviction, bravery, and wisdom. Justice, the State, and the Individual This course will introduce you to some of the most important issues in political thought.
What should we think about the nature of justice, and the relationship between justice, morality, law, and social conventions? How do, should, and could individuals and their political communities relate to each other? What is the basis, if any, for the legitimacy of political authority? What are possible approaches to the resolution of political and social conflicts, and what are the relative merits of those approaches? Starting with the big bang theory, we will explore how the laws of physics guided the evolution of the universe through the processes most likely to have produced life on earth as it exists today.
We will then consider what the laws of physics have to say about life elsewhere in the universe. Mathematical and Computational Research in Biological Sciences Using computation to model and study biological systems is one of the leading edges of current scientific research.
In this hands-on exploration of the latest techniques, students will learn how macromolecules, such as DNA, RNA, and proteins, perform their functions and how to visualize and quantify their behavior. Pathways in Data Science Learn how to glean insights and meaning from complex sets of data in this overview of a field with growing importance in business, government, and scientific research.
Students will learn to use the transformational tools of data science and machine learning and see how researchers are applying them in various scientific and social science fields. Learn More UChicago One-Week Enrichment UChicago enrichment programs offer pre-college students the opportunity to explore different areas of study and learn about different disciplines, especially those that make UChicago a distinct destination for higher education.
Pre-College Students. Program Descriptions Discover the awesome course opportunities for high school students this summer with the University of Chicago. Immersion This summer, take advantage of the rich educational resources offered by this University of Chicago residential program and transform your passion into your expertise.
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