<p>Advantages/Disadvantages?</p>
<p>I would also like to know the answer to this…but in regards to classes at a 4 year university over the summer</p>
<p>Bump. I have the exact same question.</p>
<p>Well pros involve you basically gaining college credit that can (But not always) applied to your ultimate college destination.</p>
<p>In addition, it provides another medium for colleges to judge you by on your app. It can show your not some idiot who gets high over the summer, but rather be productive and more importantly that you can handle taking on the intensity of college courses. This is partly the use of SAT’s, so indirectly, we COULD imply that they can be a slight addition to SAT’s. </p>
<p>Of course, there’s also the benefit of fulfilling the curiosity of wanting to gain knowledge on various subjects.</p>
<p>Sometimes it can get expensive, but honestly, I’ve heard it’s relatively inexpensive. If you live far away from a CC, expect to have to take various buses and various times to take classes. Plus you kinda do miss out on summer, but it’ll be like going to normal school I guess.</p>
<p>Then again, that’s if your CC offers any sort of summer HS program.</p>
<p>I took Spanish at my county college when going into junior year and will be taking Philosophy this summer. The up side is that it looks good for college and you get to learn interesting things. The downside is… well… it is a county college. I was not surrounded by the most intelligent peers last summer.
Also, it can get a little expensive. Each course for me is $400. While not ridiculous, I really can’t afford to take more than one course per summer right now. It would cost too much and I wouldn’t be able to work as much to make money.</p>
<p>Well yeah, but my peers at my high school I feel are quite inferior to me as well. But $400 dollars is nothing compared to taking the same course at a summer program at a upper level university’s pre-college program.</p>
<p>It is most definitely far less expensive than a pre-college program. And really, you can still learn a lot, even if you aren’t surrounded by intelligent peers. But, that being said, if you get frustrated with being in classes with other “upper level” kids in high school, I would think that you would be more frustrated with those who attend county. But of course, this has just been my experience.</p>