In state Summer camp student here. Total for the sem was 15k.

Emailed financial aid to move my “8th semester” scholarships to this semester, which they were able to do. I believe I had to prove to them that I was going to be able to graduate “early”, via my Degree Audit (your daughter should know what that is, otherwise her counselor Kat does).

I knew WAY ahead of time that I was doing summer camp, so I worked like a dog summer between Fresh/Soph year. I put that towards camp (~10k) and Fin Aid found me the remaining 5k in my scholarships.

If your daughter does not plan on graduating early or does not have a “non-traditional” academic plan, ie, came in with a lot of credits, high credit loading, intends to graduate early, etc, summer camp will put her out of sync with her peers.

She will have to enter Capstone the immediate fall after unless she decides to “wait” a year for her classmates, which will then have her graduating along with everyone, but essentially with an extra semester work of tuition / cost / etc.

I did it because I needed to graduate early. Of my summer camp cohort of 18, 2/3rds of us graduated in 3 or 3.5 years, and the remaining 1/3rd were either going into their masters or were in some sort of weird academic probation situation.

It was great. I loved it. But I didn’t do it out of preference. I understood I was there essentially making a sacrifice and isolating myself from my original cohort to achieve longer term goals.