Summer Planning
In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith discuss summer planning. How should your child approach their summer? Should they double down on academics? Should they ‘round’ out their resume? Cathy and Meredith share some tried and true answers to the most common questions about summer planning.
TIMESTAMPS
[00:00] Intro
[01:14] Summer planning
[02:12] What should I do this summer? Does it really matter?
[5:00] How can you challenge or grow yourself?
[6:49] A word on taking academic classes over the summer
[8:26] The pitfalls of over focusing on selective schools instead of fit
[11:17] Summers do kind of matter
[12:30] Summer is a good time to help teens figure out what’s important to them
[14:28] I heard that if my child takes this summer program at X university, it will increase their chances of getting in
[16:42] What admissions officers are really trying to assess
[22:03] How do you approach resistance in your teens to summer planning?
[25:10] Encourage your teen’s independence when looking at summer opportunities
[28:43] Get out of your comfort zone
[32:55] Student voices on their meaningful summer experiences
[37:58] Outro
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