How would "year-around" schooling affect scouts?

[RememberSchiff]

With the heavy emphasis on AP type classes and "success in the classroom", a lot of our boys attend summer school as well as regular school.  Year around school is just around the corner for us and a few of the grade schools have already moved in that direction.

 

Some of our older scouts have enrolled at universty "pre-college" weeks during their soph-junior or junior-senior summer. Sort of a "Trail to College" program - a sampling of a college-level course, lectures, labwork, essay writing, test taking, campus life...

 

When they return home, whether they are interested in that university or not,  they are more focused on improving their acceptance chances (GPA's, SAT scores, recommendations) at their target colleges. .

Edited September 12, 2016 by RememberSchiff

[Stosh]

Some of our older scouts have enrolled at universty "pre-college" weeks during their soph-junior or junior-senior summer. Sort of a "Trail to College" program - a sampling of a college-level course, lectures, labwork, essay writing, test taking, campus life...

 

When they return home, whether they are interested in that university or not,  they are more focused on improving their acceptance chances (GPA's, SAT scores, recommendations) at their target colleges. .

Yep, that's what I was referring to as the AP classes, they are college credit classes taken before going to college.  It's like the Head Start program for high schoolers.    It's not that the school is year-around, it's just that the kids make it that way to get a leg up on the competition.