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...School of Government, has been involved with evaluating the program from its inception. According to Avery’s research, 50 percent of the first class of students at the start of the program expected college to be their highest level of education. By the end of the third summer, 77 percent of the students expected to earn some type of graduate degree...
...participants stay at Harvard from Sunday night to Friday afternoon for five weeks during their first summer, with that number growing to six weeks in their second year and eight as they study at the summer school...
Each year, CSA accepts 30 high school freshmen. Students receive instruction from local teachers in their first two summers and receive free enrollment in Harvard Summer School courses in their third. In addition, students receive a weekly $200 stipend and a free laptop computer. Those who complete the program—as did all 30 members of the first CSA class—receive a $3,000 scholarship...
About 25 Harvard undergraduates are employed by the program each summer to act as mentors...
...effort to close the group down may have been spurred by its raised profile in Germany over the past year. The opening of its headquarters in Berlin in January put the organization back into the headlines, and it became the center of a national furor over the summer, when the Defense Ministry initially barred access to a key filming location for a movie about anti-Nazi hero Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, because the title role was played by high-profile Scientologist Tom Cruise. (Germany later relented...