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Program Dates and Costs

The 2025 Summer Programs dates will be posted in November 2024 and the application will open in February 2025.

2024 Four-Week Residential Program
Dates: June 21 - July 19
Tuition & Fees:
Biology - $4,400
English - $4,400
Dance - $4,500
Math - $4,200

The Early College Program (ECP) is a four-week residential program for female high school students, who are currently in the 11th grade, and are seeking an early college experience. Since 1989, ECP has been chosen as the program to launch the college career of hundreds of exceptional young scholars.

ECP is an intense academic program that offers college credit courses in English and Biology for current high school juniors and seniors. A cumulative 3.0 GPA along with a minimum GPA of 3.0 in English and Science courses is required.

Eligible students may select and attend one of the following modules:

ECP English 101
ECP Biology 100
ECP Dance 132
ECP Math 107
ECP English 101 offers a college credit course earning (4) college credits. This course provides opportunities for the student to learn how to read, think and write critically in preparation for a First-Year Composition course. The course emphasizes analysis, logical fallacies, reasoning and writing under a timed circumstance. A minimum grade of "C" is required to earn credit and generate a college transcript.

Open to current 11th grade students.
ECP Biology 100 offers a college credit course in The Biology of Women earning four (4) credits. This course provides perspectives on the distinct biology of women. The roles of science in society and women’s empowerment through knowledge of their bodies will be examined. The course features lectures and laboratory. A minimum grade of “C” is required to earn the credit and generate a college transcript.

Open to current 11th grade students.
ECP Dance 132 offers a college credit course earning (4) college credits. Students will learn the basic elements of dance (body, space, time, effort, action) to make connections with the body and understand space. Students will use prompts and in class exercises to explore creative practices through contemporary modern movement. This course will provide students with an understanding of weight, breath, and body alignment for more efficient movement practices in dance. A minimum grade of "C" is required to earn credit and generate a college transcript.
ECP Math 107 offers a college credit course earning (4) college credits. Students will be introduced to critical thinking and principles of reasoning, logic and analyzing arguments, uses and abuses of percentages and proportions, consumer mathematics, mathematical models, and elementary probability and statistics. Emphasis is given on applications, mathematics in the media, and problem solving. A minimum grade of "C" is required to earn credit and generate a college transcript.

Admission Policy

Spelman College, a Historically Black College whose mission is to serve high-achieving Black women, will consider for admission women students, including students who consistently live and self-identify as women, regardless of their gender assignment at birth. Spelman does not admit male students, including students who self-identify and live consistently as men, regardless of gender assignment at birth. If a woman is admitted and transitions to male while a student at Spelman, the College will permit that student to continue to matriculate at and graduate from Spelman.

Application to a high school pre-college summer program is not an application for admission to the degree programs of Spelman College. No promises are made regarding admission to the first-year class. Parents/guardians must give their permission for students to participate in summer programs and activities.