Student Profile

We seek outstanding high school student leaders with strong academic records, passion for national and international issues, interest in attending a top university such as Yale, and who wish to make substantive and lasting contributions to their communities and the world. Because the program is conducted as a college-level academic and leadership development program, students are expected to be mature, focused, responsible, articulate, passionate, and willing to engage in discussions over difficult moral and policy issues. The Ivy Scholars Program focuses on developing future senior leaders in government, business, and public service and to that end, seeks student leaders who have strong written and verbal communication skills, can read and analyze large amounts of material, draw well-reasoned conclusions, and consistently adhere to a high standard of personal and professional conduct. This special academic and leadership development program is for extraordinarily capable individuals of strong character who know who they are, possess a strong desire to study strategy and leadership, and have a calling to someday serve at the very highest levels of government, business, public service, and education.

Three Intensive Academic and Leadership Development Experiences for 2012: 

Program in American Political Philosophy, Law, and Economics (APPLE)

• 8 July – 21 July 2012
• Focus on the great ideas and thinkers in American political philosophy, democracy, constitutional law, political economy, applied economics, and financial literacy with advanced training in scholarly research methods and academic writing skills
• Designed for rising sophomore, junior, and senior high school students as well as post-high school, pre-college students

Global Leaders Development Program

• 28 July – 11 August 2012
• Focus on executive writing skills, group deliberation skills, and study of major global challenges
• Areas of study include Global Health, International Security, and International Institutions
• Designed for rising sophomore, junior, and senior high school students

Studies in Grand Strategy for High School Leaders

• 29 July – 12 August 2012
• Focus on analytic writing skills, advocacy and persuasion skills, and the study of Grand Strategy
• Areas of study include strategic analysis of great leaders and empires with application to today’s issues
• Designed for rising seniors only

All three Ivy Scholars experiences are designed to challenge even the most capable college-bound, scholar-leader with a high degree of intellectual rigor, critical analysis, individual and team output, and faculty interaction. Instructors include a range of nationally and internationally renowned scholars, post-doctoral fellows and advanced graduate students. Top undergraduate students serve as student mentors and teaching assistants. 

The Ivy Scholars program is developed specifically for academically competitive high school students who wish to pursue undergraduate study on a campus of a top-tier university such as Yale. Students will experience academic and residential life by living on-campus in Yale College housing, dining in the historical residential college eating halls, and most importantly, learning from Yale and other Ivy League scholars on the subjects of their expertise in university classrooms. The library facilities at Yale feature one of the largest university library collections in the world. Students will have network privileges and an Ethernet port in their suites that gives them 24/7 access during the program to Yale’s world-class on-line resources including journals, databases, and research services.

The student-to-instructor ratio at the Ivy Scholars Program is among the best of all nationally-recognized summer high school enrichment programs at less than 6-to-1 and is set in a collegial, learning-friendly culture of excellence. Last year’s participants rated the program 9+/10 overall!