Twenty-seven high school seniors and 13 juniors celebrated the last day of classes of the three-week Summer College Preview Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar with a festive closing ceremony.
“The Summer College Preview Program gives high school students exposure to a college-level experience,” says Bruce Volstad, manager of pre-college programs at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. “This program gives students the opportunity to explore an academic area of interest, while learning how to prepare for the highly competitive college admissions process.”
The SCPP is designed to introduce academically motivated students to the demanding curriculum of highly selective universities such as the ones in Education City. A curriculum of English, math and SAT exams aims to introduce high schools student to the workload they will experience at university, including demanding courses, nightly homework, quizzes, exams and projects. The progress of the students is measured throughout the course of the program.
“This program is a good experience. It taught me how to handle pressure and prepare for the next step in high school. In my high school, we learn critical thinking, while at SCPP we are given the problem and need to figure out how to apply what we learned to get to the solution. We are learning things here that we will learn to value soon enough,” said Mohammed Dauleh, a student at Qatar Leadership Academy who earned the “most improved student” award for improving his SAT total score.[Read More]