If you could enter college with experience and credits already under your belt, would you do it?
There are multiple ways to earn college credits while still in high school, including AP classes and Duel Enrolling, but if your schedule doesn’t allow those, many students attend summer programs at colleges which award college credits.
One such program held at Savannah College of Art and Design, which lasted five weeks over the summer, provided great insight for students to refine what they want from a school.
At the SCAD Rising Star program, days are set up like they would be for full time students, attending two classes, two and a half hours each four days a week. Seem strange? Sound like a dream? “It made my week feel more balanced and secure than a five day week, where I’m usually hectic everywhere,” says Connor Sawyer, a senior who attended the program this past summer.
Jake Sims, a Bob Jones Alumni who graduated last year, went to the same summer program at SCAD and says that the experience “really helped put things into perspective.” While he decided not to attend SCAD after his experience, it did help him decide what was important that a school should be like for him.
Students were able to get an example of all the ups and downs of college life. From the worst teachers to the wonderful freedom many students desire, summer college programs supply it all as references for future decisions.
