<p>Is it necessary for students who attend boarding school to also enroll in academic summer programs?</p>
<p>Necessary as in required by the school? No, at least not at mine.</p>
<p>To elaborate – with the heavy academic load that many boarding school kids take throughout the school year, are they expected to continue intensive learning during the summer by enrolling in programs such as TASP, LEAD or RSI?</p>
<p>MY daughter is a 3rd former at a HADES School and she will spend next summer at camp with no electricity or rumming water working on her sailing. I would never want her to spend the summer doing academics. Only thing I could see her doing would be a language program in another country.</p>
<p>you will find that almost noone will be going to those programs. they will be going to either language/tennis programs in Europe or to community service programs in Latin/South America – otherwise known as Teen Tours. Some will finish up their regular summer camps and return as CIT’s</p>
<p>College admission reps like to ask “What did you do last summer?” Be sure you can answer with something that doesn’t make you seem lazy. </p>
<p>Many non-Boarding schools have students taking “heavy academic loads”. Though you may not be, don’t assume that because you attend a boarding school, colleges will necessarily want you more than they want an equally qualified student from a non-boarding school.</p>
<p>College admission reps want to see you follow your passion during the summer. If your passion is watching tv 5hours a day and deconstructing early spongebob episodes, and you can talk/write about it well, it looks better than spending summer after summer at CTY</p>