Title: Summer College Courses
Feed: CWKN #390, June 18, 2008
Time: 1:33
SUGGESTED LEAD: THIS SUMMER, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WILL TAKE CLASSES ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES HOPING TO GAIN A SMALL ADVANTAGE OVER THEIR PEERS IN GETTING ADMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF THEIR CHOICE. BUT… DO THESE SUMMER COLLEGE COURSES REALLY HELP… OR ARE THEY A WASTE OF MONEY? THAT STORY FROM CONNECT WITH KIDS.
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NATS: showing art work “and … most of my stuff was fairly abstract.”

NARR: IN THE SUMMERTIME, 17-YEAR OLD ROMY (ROW-me) MALOON DECIDED TO STUDY ART AT ONE OF THE NATION’S TOP ART SCHOOLS.

SHE HOPES IT WILL HELP HER GET ADMITTED THERE. (:08)

SUPER:  Romy Maloon, 17 years old (:13)
“If you have similar credentials to someone else and it’s between someone who didn’t do some sort of program and someone who did, I think the person who did probably does have the edge.”

NARR: GETTING INTO THE NATION’S BEST UNIVERSITIES HAS NEVER BEEN MORE COMPETITIVE.  BUT … WILL A SUMMER COLLEGE PROGRAM HELP?  (:07)

SUPER:  Adam Lips, Asst. Dean of Admission, Emory University (:33)
“I would say it would give them an advantage over someone who did nothing, but I also think doing things like spending time volunteering in the summer, working a job in the summer, I think those are things that can honestly be just as beneficial.”

NARR: BUT A SUMMER COLLEGE PROGRAM HAS ONE CLEAR ADVANTAGE: IT’S LIKE TEST DRIVING A NEW CAR … IT CAN HELP KIDS DECIDE IF THIS REALLY IS THE COLLEGE, OR THE COURSE, FOR THEM.  (:10)

SOT:  Romy Maloon, 17 years old
“I think it’ll even help me decide whether I even want to go to art school, because I think it’s a pretty intense program like I think it’s really similar to how it would be to be going to this school.”

NARR: IN THE GREAT RACE CALLED COLLEGE ADMISSIONS… EXPERTS SAY, BEYOND JOBS AND VOLUNTEER WORK AND SUMMER CLASSES, WHAT STILL COUNTS MOST OF ALL … ARE GRADES.  (:10)

SOT:  Adam Lips, Asst. Dean of Admission, Emory University
“And I think It’s important to do well in school and then sort of supplement that with things you’re interested in and passionate about and to talk about those things in a way that present you as a good fit.”

SOT:  Romy Maloon, 17 (1:25)
“I’m just really excited about it. I think I’m gonna meet hopefully really interesting kids and like, just get to do something I really love to do.”

SUGGESTED TAG:   FOR MORE INFORMATION ON SUMMER COLLEGE COURSES, LOG ONTO WWW.CONNECTWITHKIDS.COM.