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BestSummerPrograms was founded to give students and families across the world a free tool to evaluate the bewildering and costly landscape of high school summer programs.
This website offers nuanced information augmented by our unique badge and filter system, allowing families to ascertain quality, compare value, and make informed choices by viewing objective data through an expert lens.
Our goal is to bring clarity to the confusion of thousands of programs competing for students and vying for attention. As a source of unbiased and independent information, BestSummerPrograms does not solicit or accept any fees or compensation from listed programs.
Offers stipend and/or free to attend.
Offers intense and immersive undergraduate-level academic experience centered on real-world research.
Highly selective program offering rigorous academic experience; carries weight with admissions offices.
Under 10% acceptance rate + free to attend + elite reputation + any US student receives equal consideration + something special.
Program is open to international students.
Program is restricted to a specific geographic area.
Restricted to a specific underserved / minority population.
Saul Lelchuk is an author and lifelong educator. He graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a B.A. in English and holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College.
His love for education began early, when working as a summer camp counselor at Harvard’s Peabody Museum. Since then, he has taught and studied pedagogy at the Dartmouth Institute of Writing and Rhetoric and directed gifted programs for the National Society for the Gifted and Talented at UC Berkeley and other campuses. He has designed and taught writing curricula at the graduate, undergraduate, and secondary school levels.
Lelchuk holds a faculty position as Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College’s Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, where he has taught literature and creative writing since 2016. He also enjoys teaching internationally, most recently at the Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale in Naples, Italy. As an author, his novels have been translated into multiple languages worldwide and optioned for film and television.
With over fifteen years of experience as a NACAC and WACAC-accredited independent college counselor, he has guided students from across the U.S. and from dozens of countries worldwide through the college admissions process.
