summer writing courses (EPGY vs CTY)

momonthehill
Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:13:43 +0000

My daughter is currently finishing up ninth grade. Last summer, she attended CTY at Dickinson College and took the “Crafting the Essay” class. From everything that I heard from her, plus the anthology of work that I saw from her class, Crafting the Essay was definitely not about writing college app. essays(esp. given the fact that all of the kids in her class were either rising HS freshmen or sophomores). The essays that they worked on related to both literature and popular culture. This past year in school, D has been taking “Honors/Seminar” level English and she’s mentioned to me, on more than one occasion, that “Crafting the Essay” really helped to give her a strong headstart in her current English class. Now, that having been said, I’m not sure if the “online” curriculum would be exactly the same as the class that my D took…? I don’t know anything about the Stanford program, but if it fits in better with your family’s plans this summer, that’s certainly something to take into consideration.