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WHY WAIT? APPLY NOW! WWW.CHOATE.EDU/SUMMER SUMMER PROGRAMS OFFICE 333 CHRISTIAN STREET WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT 06492-3800 T: (203) 697-2365 EMAIL: CHOATESUMMER@CHOATE.EDU WWW.CHOATE.EDU/SUMMER
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APPLYING TO CHOATE SUMMER PROGRAMS
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis
FINANCIAL AID
beginning in November. Apply online at
Choate Rosemary Hall seeks the best
www.choate.edu/summer/apply
qualified candidates from a variety of backgrounds and offers need-based financial
A completed application must include:
aid to students who could not otherwise
• Application (student information and
attend our on-campus programs. Financial
course selections, where applicable)
aid applicants should provide all supporting
• Personal Statement
IRS documents including a copy of the 1040
• Two teacher recommendations (forms are
form and any other income-tax forms by
available online to print) • School recommendation (form is available online to print) • Current school transcript, which includes
the deadline indicated on www.choate.edu/ summer. Materials that arrive after the deadline will be considered on a rolling basis for any remaining funds.
current courses and grades • Graded English essay from current year,
$75 domestic / $100 international
Please note that a TOEFL or TOEFL Junior Test is strongly recommended for the English Language Institute and required for all other programs.
DEPOSIT Within two weeks of acceptance, students
DAY STUDENTS
must pay a non-refundable $1,000 deposit
Summer Programs welcomes day students
($2,000 deposit for Summer Study Abroad)
who live close enough to commute to
that is credited toward tuition. To ensure
campus. Day students are expected to
the student’s admission, the final balance is
participate in all aspects of the academic
due no later than May 1. Students who are
program – including evening projects, field
accepted after April 10 must submit their
trips, and sports activities.
payment in full. This payment includes the $1,000 non-refundable deposit ($2,000 for
In addition to a completed application
Summer Study Abroad). Charges include
and application fee, some of our programs
tuition, room, board, activities, trips, and
require specific submissions to supplement
textbooks.
your application. For full details, please visit www.choate.edu/summer.
Choate Rosemary Hall prohibits in all its programs discrimination against or harassment of any member or group based upon age, gender, race, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetic predisposition, ancestry or other categories protected by Connecticut or federal law. It does not discriminate on these bases in the administration of its admission process, educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletics, or other school-administered programs.
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This summer at Choate Rosemary Hall Follow your own path to discovery at Choate Summer Programs, whether through project-based learning in our i.d.Lab, focusing on a particular area of interest, or by combining passions in our discipline–specific programs. YOU CHOOSE from among our 2-week, 4-week, and 5-week academic summer programs for middle school and high school students.
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create your own path
turn your ideas into reality!
Part engineering, part art, and always fun, Invention and Design Lab exposes students to a series of projects which help them build skills and unlock their creative potential.
A flexible schedule with some downtime for fun! Choate Summer Programs enjoys a rich tradition of academic excellence and innovation. Our curriculum hones 21st century skills – collaboration, creativity, communication, and connection – while exploring content not traditionally found in middle or secondary school curricula such as robotics, computer science, design thinking, and documentary filmmaking.
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CURRENTLY OVER 80 COURSES TO CHOOSE FROM – 50 HIGH SCHOOL AND 30 MIDDLE SCHOOL OFFERINGS. FOR STUDENTS CURRENTLY IN GRADES 8-11: 5-WEEK PROGRAMS
• Academic Enrichment • Study Abroad: France or Spain • The John F. Kennedy ’35 Institute in Government • English Language Institute • Immersion Geometry 4-WEEK PROGRAM
• Theater Arts Institute • Study Abroad: Morocco 2-WEEK PROGRAMS *
• Writing Workshops • Math Workshops • Science Workshops • Documentary Filmmaking • Introduction to Oceanography • Service and Society * Create your own path to discovery
by combining 2 of our two-week programs. FOR STUDENTS CURRENTLY IN GRADES 6 & 7: 5-WEEK PROGRAMS
• Academic Enrichment • English Language Institute 4-WEEK PROGRAMS
• Theater Arts Institute • EnviroTech for Girls (ETG) 2-WEEK PROGRAMS *
• Writing Workshops • Invention & Design Lab • Documentary Filmmaking • Introduction to Robotics * Create your own path to discovery
by combining 2, two-week programs.
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO SOMETHING MORE WITH YOUR SUMMER? AT CHOATE’S SUMMER PROGRAMS,DISCOVER YOUR PASSION!
INTRO TO ROBOTICS:
Build and use a robotic arm
ENVIROTECH FOR GIRLS:
Create a guide for tree species
STUDY ABROAD:
Immerse yourself in another culture
discovery @ Choate
A dynamic curriculum enhanced by your creativity, curiosity, and passion for discovery.
INTRO TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Our program is designed to improve and refine the fundamental skills you will need for success, while making learning a fun and exciting process. We offer course options for middle school and high school study in English, history, languages, mathematics and computer science, and the sciences, as well as study abroad opportunities.
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
Each year many of the more than 300 courses we offer during the academic year are piloted or refined during Summer Programs. Every summer, many courses are workshopped in our i.d.Lab at the Cameron and Edward Lanphier Center for Mathematics and Computer Science.
Ready ... set ... discover!
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middle school A DAY IN THE LIFE: MIDDLE SCHOOL 7:15-7:55 8:15-9:35 9:35-10:10 10:10-10:50 10:50-11:30 11:45-1:05 1:20-2:40 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:15 5:30-6:00 6:15-7:15 7:30-9:00 9:00-9:30 9:30-10:00 10:00
Breakfast. Pancakes at the Dining Hall. ARABIC FOR BEGINNERS Study for quiz tomorrow. PUZZLES, LOGIC, AND GAME STRATEGY Study Hall. Review Arabic alphabet chart. Lunch. Burger Day! Sign up for weekend trip to New York City. GODS AND GODDESSES Kickball sports practice. To the Tuck Shop in St. John Hall Student Center for a milkshake. Dinner with friends. Head to the Pasta Bar! Dorm sports! Way to go, Nichols dorm! Study Hours. Work with online program to learn new Arabic vocabulary. Study Break. Downtime with friends. Finish homework. Shower. Call home. LIGHTS OUT!
Summer Programs was a great introductory experience for me. It helped me a lot with getting used to the campus and how classes work. –Ted, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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From the diverse students and faculty to the intense relationship you can build with your students in and out of the classroom, Summer Programs is a testament to how the best learning is experiential, personal, and fun. – George Ramirez, Mathematics Instructor
A DAY IN THE LIFE: HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT
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7:15-7:55 Breakfast with dormmate. Make-your-own omelets! 8:15-8:45 IMMERSION GEOMETRY Morning Session Review homework and go over questions. 8:45-10:30 Begin new material. Prove theorems. Work through examples. 10:30-BREAK Grab a milkshake at the Tuck Shop. 10:45-11:30 Group work. 11:30 Lunch. 12:30-1:15 IMMERSION GEOMETRY Afternoon Session Review issues with assignments. Cover new material. 1:45-BREAK Hangout in Lanphier Center. 2:40 Class Day ends. 3:00-3:45 Grab ice cream downtown (2 blocks away!) 4:15-5:15 Tennis practice. 5:30-6:00 Dinner with friends. 6:15-7:15 Dorm sports. 8:00-10:00 Study Hours. Study for tomorrow’s quiz and go for extra help! 10:00-10:30 Study Break. 10:30-11:00 Finish homework. Call home. 11:00 LIGHTS OUT!
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global friends
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CHOATE SUMMER PROGRAMS STUDENTS HAIL FROM 33 COUNTRIES AND 28 U.S. STATES
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explore new paths THE ADVENTURE BEGINS!
YOUR PATH TO FRANCE
Begin your experience with a weekend in the Loire Valley followed by a home-stay with a family in Paris and a concurrent academic session taught exclusively in French. Participate in four to five museum visits per week, extending your art history and French history courses beyond the classroom.
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YOUR PATH TO MOROCCO
Studying abroad in the summer offers a stressfree environment that gives you the freedom to apply your language skills everywhere that you choose to explore. – Nina, Madison, Connecticut
This four-week program is suited to beginning through advanced level Arabic language students as well as intermediate to advanced level French language students who are interested in exploring this Francophone region. Students live with host families in Rabat (either Arabic or French-speaking), take courses in their target language, and participate in lectures and cultural activities. Excursions to Fez, Auberge (the desert), and Marrakech round out the experience.
Become a global citizen! In four or five short weeks you can become a more globally competent citizen, developing greater intercultural awareness that is necessary forFrom: an ever-changing world. We offer language programs Meagher, Todd tmeagher@choate.edu
Re: Spain. Arabic, French, Spanish translations in Morocco,Subject: France, and Date: November 1, 2018 at 4:45 PM To: Brian Carey bcarey@jsmccarthy.com Our programs extend an invitation for students to immerse Cc: Darlene McNamara dmcnamara@jsmccarthy.com themselves in the language, daily routines, and cultural habits of YOUR PATH TO SPAIN
This program features a four-week home-stay with a family in La Coruña and a concurrent academic session taught exclusively in Spanish. The program concludes with a week-long excursion to Salamanca, Segovia, Toledo, and Madrid, exploring historical and culture sites.
another country. Your time abroad with Choate is designed to help
Hi, Brian.
build independence, self-reliance, resourcefulness, and adaptability through exposure to new ways of living and thinking.
As we just discussed, the order of the transla7ons French first – Êtes-vous prêts à explorer? Are you ready to explore? Spanish second - prêts à explorer? Êtes-vous ¿Listos para explorar? ¿Listos para explorar? Arabic third هل أنتم مستع ّدون الستكشاف آفاق جديدة؟ Thanks, Todd
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GAME ON! Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, students participate in a recreational sport of their choosing after classes. Offerings include:
MODERN DANCE D O D G E B A L L
BASKETBALL
FITNESS/CONDITIONING
KICKBALL SOCCER
SQUASH S W I M M I N G
D A N C E
A E R O B I C S
U L T I M A T E F R I S B E E
TENNIS YOGA
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Are you game?
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summer living @ choate
Learn & play! Students live on campus in one of our 17 dormitory residences with one or two roommates. There are 144 full-time faculty advisers and 34 college interns who also live in these residences and who are there to support you.
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Build Community From 6:15 to 7:15 most evenings, students gather for Dorm Sports Competitions. Games are spirited and friendly. You can join in the fun or cheer on your dormmates from the sidelines.
Our students As a school community, we are dedicated to providing transformative student experiences, as well as to cultivating a vibrant cohesive community that also celebrates and respects diversity and instills life-long habits of learning, leadership, and service. Each year we receive more than 1,000 applications to Choate Summer Programs from all over the world. Often students who seek admittance for our regular academic year choose to enroll in Summer Programs as a precursor to the Choate experience. If you are considering applying for the regular school year, why wait? Apply now to Summer Programs to familiarize yourself with our campus and faculty.
Weekend life The Student Activities staff arranges day trips to New Haven, Boston, and New York. These off-campus trips are structured with specific itineraries and guidelines and led by chaperones.
Our facilities
Our faculty Seventy percent of Summer Programs faculty are year-long Choate Rosemary Hall faculty. All of our faculty are dedicated professionals who love challenging and teaching our students and being a part of their path to academic excellence. Veteran faculty members are paired with teaching interns from top colleges and universities to help support our students in their academic and extracurricular explorations.
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Summer Programs takes advantage of all Choate facilities, including our three LEED-Certified buildings: the Kohler Environmental Center – the first teaching, research, and residential environmental center in U.S. secondary education; the state-of-the-art Cameron and Edward Lanphier Center for Mathematics and Computer Science; and our student center, St. John Hall.
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NEW YORK
MASSACHUSETTS
BOSTON CONNECTICUT
NEW HAVEN PENNSYLVANIA
NEW YORK CITY
PHILADELPHIA
Choate
NEW JERSEY
MARYLAND
WASHINGTON, D.C.
IDEAL LOCATION
Choate is a traditional New England prep school, with a beautiful mix of classic and contemporary buildings and lovely green spaces. Located on 458 acres, the campus is within walking distance of Wallingford’s historic downtown where you’ll find a cluster of antique shops, a variety of restaurants, and an Amtrak station and CT Hartford Line. New Haven and all the resources of a great university town are minutes away by train or car. New York City is just two hours away, and Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., are well within reach.
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APPLYING TO CHOATE SUMMER PROGRAMS
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis
FINANCIAL AID
beginning in November. Apply online at
Choate Rosemary Hall seeks the best
www.choate.edu/summer/apply
qualified candidates from a variety of backgrounds and offers need-based financial
A completed application must include:
aid to students who could not otherwise
• Application (student information and
attend our on-campus programs. Financial
course selections, where applicable)
aid applicants should provide all supporting
• Personal Statement
IRS documents including a copy of the 1040
• Two teacher recommendations (forms are
form and any other income-tax forms by
available online) • School recommendation (form is available online to print) • Current school transcript, which includes
the deadline indicated on www.choate.edu/ summer. Materials that arrive after the deadline will be considered on a rolling basis for any remaining funds.
current courses and grades • Graded English essay from current year, with teacher comments
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS Please note that a TOEFL or TOEFL Junior
• A non-refundable application fee –
Test is strongly recommended for the English
Language Institute and required for all other
$75 domestic / $100 international
programs.
DEPOSIT Within two weeks of acceptance, students
DAY STUDENTS
must pay a non-refundable $1,000 deposit
Summer Programs welcomes day students
($2,000 deposit for Summer Study Abroad)
who live close enough to commute to
that is credited toward tuition. Students who
campus. Day students are expected to
are accepted after April 10 must submit their
participate in all aspects of the academic
payment in full. This payment includes the
program – including evening projects, field
$1,000 non-refundable deposit ($2,000 for
trips, and sports activities.
Summer Study Abroad). Charges include tuition, room, board, activities, trips, and
In addition to a completed application
textbooks.
and application fee, some of our programs require specific submissions to supplement your application. For full details, please visit www.choate.edu/summer.
Choate Rosemary Hall prohibits in all its programs discrimination against or harassment of any member or group based upon age, gender, race, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetic predisposition, ancestry or other categories protected by Connecticut or federal law. It does not discriminate on these bases in the administration of its admission process, educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletics, or other school-administered programs.
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