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New!
Explore
Stony Brook
Summer Camp
Lets Int'l
High School
Students
Check Us and
the U.S. Out |
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This July high school
students age 15 and above will come to campus from around the world
for a special two week pilot program -
Explore Stony Brook. An
international summer camp, it will give students a taste of college
life plus a whole lot more!
The camp will include everything to make
both students and their parents happy. It begins with safety -
students are picked up at the airport and brought back to the
airport - which doesn't seem like a big deal but is actually
important for everyone. Current international students say it was
such a relief to see the Stony Brook t-shirts and sweatshirts on
University staff when they arrived at the chaos of JFK airport when
they came as freshmen.
Then comes life in college dorms and that
means a lot more fun and freedom than high school students are used to
having, even at private schools. But for parents, it's also knowing
they are secure dorms with special student RA's. And it means
American dorm food. LOL! Now that will definitely be a new
experience!
The two weeks will be filled with everything imaginable from the
super serious - doing an experiment with a scientist to see what a
real college lab is like - to fun - going to the beach to play in
the waves of the Atlantic Ocean - to cultural - a Broadway play and
Met Museum - to sightseeing - the real capital (NYC) and the
government capital (DC) - to the practical - intense ESL classes to
see how ready they are for university courses - to taking them through the common app and
writing a college essay in case they want to come back for a real
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Explore Stony Brook
is the brainchild of the
Associate Dean of International Admissions Dr.
Yu-wan Wang.
She has spent the past year carefully putting all the pieces
together and guiding the concept through the University
approval process. And when the first 25 students are found,
she has the brains and stamina to make it work. As a member
of the
Class of '77, she scored so highly on the gaokow,
China's national college entrance exam, that
she was among only 4.7% of test takers
granted admission after the Cultural Revolution.
For the previous ten years all universities had been shut
down and the test had not been offered. It was given again
the year after Mao died and the Gang of 4 imprisoned.
Although it took many years and three countries (China,
Taiwan, US) to get her PhD while also becoming a wife,
mother, and Fulbright Scholar - her goal now is to make
Stony Brook University a preferred choice for international
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Check it all out at the links below and
spread the word. Stony Brook needs 25 students to make this pilot
program go - and then 25 happy students leaving to make it a success
that will happen again every year.
Explore Stony Brook website
http://www.stonybrook.edu/ugadmissions/explore/
Explore Stony Brook application -
Deadline May 1, 2011
http://www.stonybrook.edu/ugadmissions/explore/app.pdf
Explore Stony Brook brochure:
http://www.aaezine.org/ExploreSB/ExploreSBSummer2011.pdf
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