I am thinking of sending my daugher to the four week Korean Immersion camp this summer. It gives 180 hours of language learning which is a full year of high school language credit. They offer it in several languages. She's already in her second year of Japanese (will probably take a third if they offer it, depends on how many kids sign up) in which she gets A's and she wants to learn Korean and Mandarin with her ultimate goal to teach English in Asian countries for a few years and then move into interpreting, either documents, or orally at the business or diplomatic level. We plan on buying her the Mandarin Rosetta Stone program soon.

The cost is $4050, though they do offer partial scholarships. It's only up to $300 per session and I think we won't qualify as DH's income is too high, unless they don't have enough kids applying for it. It's need-based first and then opened up to everyone afterwards from what I can tell.

DH should be able to get low cost or free airplane tickets with his miles or a companion fare, so that won't add too much to it. He might have to spend a night in a hotel on both ends, though, so that's probably another $300 plus car rental or transportation of some sort to and from the camp itself.

Mostly I am just concerned whether anyone has sent their kids to one of these things and what type of an experience it was for you and them. Concordia is supposed to be a good name and they have week long, two week long, and 4 day family camps as well as the four week immersion for credit ones, so I thought others might have done it. It's in Minnesota.

I think it would look good on her transcript when she goes to apply to college, even if it turns out the school won't accept it as credit. We will find that out before we talk to her about her going. I'm not sure I'd send her for the four week one if it's not credited, but the two week one (would cost half) would still look pretty good on her college application, especially if she were to go next year as well.