Our Intellectual Pillars
Your Student’s Portfolio:
Signature College-Prep Curriculum
Over an 8 week program, students engage in 16 hours of live Socratic seminars with a small cohort of peers (2 hours per week), 8 hours of lectures (1 hour a week, pre-recorded), and 6 hours of personal mentorship. Each Socratic seminar is capped at just 10 students. This intimacy, combined with dedicated mentorship hours, ensures the experience is uniquely targeted college prep, giving your student the high-level attention required to stand out. The course cultivates invaluable intellectual skills while fostering the academic stamina required for elite university programs. It is also highly flexible: long summer vacations and dynamic schedules are no problem! All seminars and lectures are recorded, and writing mentorship workshops are planned around the student’s calendar.
University-Level Writing Sample
Each student graduates the program with a polished, 1,500-word thesis, suitable for submission as a college admissions writing sample. Every thesis undergoes a rigorous, multi-draft refinement process in direct collaboration with the Program Director. In writing seminars, students are taught to weave together disparate, high-level concepts—such as the mathematical limits of Gödel’s Incompleteness and the moral architecture of C.S. Lewis’s ethics—into a single, cohesive, and persuasive argument. The final document serves as a verified signal to admissions officers that the student is already capable of producing university-level research and rhetoric.
Personalized Letter of Recommendation
Each student graduates the program with a formal, narrative evaluation for college admissions, personally authored by the Program Director for every student. Unlike generic high school reports, this evaluation provides a high-resolution window into the student’s intellectual character and documents their specific contributions to our live dialectic sessions. It provides admissions officers with concrete proof of the student’s maturity and their ability to handle complex logical systems and profound arguments rarely touched in a high-school setting. This letter signals that the student has already successfully navigated a university-level honors environment.
The Altum Certificate of Completion
The Altum Certificate is a formal credential certifying that the student has successfully navigated a university-level honors curriculum. It serves as a verified record of 30+ instructional hours dedicated to the mastery of technical mathematical logic, virtue ethics, literature, and political philosophy. This document specifies the student’s competency in primary-text analysis and their ability to sustain rigorous Socratic dialectic. For academic institutions, this certificate provides a clear benchmark of the student’s readiness for the pace and depth of collegiate honors programs, documenting a demonstrated capacity for high-level synthesis and independent research.
Schedule Outline
Designed with your summer in mind: thoroughly flexible
