Who attends college preview summer programs?
The two oldest and largest university-based summer programs are the ones at Cornell, which enrolls 600 high school students, and Harvard, which enrolls nearly 1,000. Other notable precollege programs are the ones offered at Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins, and University of Pennsylvania, as well as smaller programs at Ithaca College, Bennington, and Dickinson College. Specialized programs are also offered, such as research apprentice programs in biology or veterinary medicine, architecture, visual arts, or language study abroad. Large programs attract applicants from all over the United States and from abroad as well. Last summer, for example, students from 31 states and 18 countries attended Cornell University Summer College. The students themselves are a highly diverse group: • A young man from Florida who has taken college courses locally wants to have a residential college experience to decide whether to apply to college near or far f
