Futures Forge – Skills for Success
- Boston, MA
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Min. Session Length:
2 Weeks
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Maximum Costs:
$5,690 (Boarding)
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Application Deadline:
Rolling
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Eligibility:
80th percentile (nationally) scoring on one of the following tests: SAT, ACT, PSAT 10, PSAT 11, GCSE, WISC, Raven鈥檚, other IQ tests.
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Residential -
Online Option
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About Us
Become prepared to take on the toughest challenges in your future with panache! Develop the skills that are critical to success in college and your career 鈥� and will impress the heck out of college and job recruiters.
Rapidly accelerate your development, working with exceptional peers in dynamic, challenging, and exciting projects that prepare you for a powerful college experience and a high-flying career, regardless of the role. Through hands-on challenges, presentations and feedback, reflection, and cognitive exercises, students improve their ability to perform in cognitively challenging future endeavors in school and work.
2024 participants highlighted that they improved most in the following areas:
- Teamwork and leadership
- Complex problem-solving and critical thinking
- Communication and presentation
- Adaptability, motivation, and grit
- Learning from giving and receiving feedback
Residential at Boston University (Boston, MA), Summer 2025
2 Week Sessions:
- June 15 – June 27
- June 29 – July 11
- July 13 – July 25
What Students Get in the Course
The course exists to give students an introduction to developing key attributes and increasing their rate of learning throughout their lives. Over these two weeks, students learn the answers to the following questions:
- How does each 聽affect their performance and development?
- How will they use these skills & attributes to succeed in the workplace?
- What can they do in their own lives to most effectively grow stronger in these?
- How can they increase their total rate of learning in any situation?
- How can they iteratively explore and test what they are motivated and passionate about?
Students consciously practice and reflect on using these attributes throughout the course to accelerate their development for years to come.