Your World...Your Way! Our three- to four-week summer immersion programs and teen tours let high school students combine travel, language study, and adventure for the best vacation ever. Enjoy pre-college programs in exciting destinations throughout the world. An eye-opening trip, incredible new skills, a chance to bond with friends (and make some new ones), and an unbeatable essay topic for your college applications. Why wait?

The Ultimate Study-Abroad Adventure

At the Explorica Summer Academy, you'll combine classroom work with hands-on experience and total immersion in some of the world's most beautiful destinations. Practice your French in the sophisticated Côte d'Azur, learn Spanish on the sunny Costa del Sol or in the Mayan capitals of Mexico, help wildlife conservation experts in South Africa, get a feel for rainforest ecology in Costa Rica, examine Michelangelo's work up close in Rome and Florence, or sample the cultures of Europe as you travel from London to Rome to Paris to Madrid (with many stops along the way!).

You'll learn new skills, travel to amazing new places, and meet new people from around the world. And the benefits won't stop once you get home.

ASA has been offering its outstanding University of Massachusetts-Amherst College Prep program since 1984. We provide hands-on enrichment and college credit courses such as psychology, writing, photography, SAT Prep with The Princeton Review, arts and tennis. Classes are kept to maximum of 12 students to ensure personalized attention and interaction. After classes, our team of dedicated resident assistants organize sports, arts and other fun activities. Students can also sign up for mini-clinics ranging from lifeguarding to leadership training. On weekends, there is a full schedule of trips to Boston, Cape Cod and Newport, as well as main attractions, museums, concerts, sports events. Students interested in learning more about college admissions can sign up for our counseling workshops and Boston college visits. ASA also offers College Prep programs at Oxford (UK), Emory University and UC-Berkeley; College Admissions programs at Columbia U, Tufts U and UC-Santa Barbara; and Study Abroad in Spain, France and Italy. Please visit our website or request a brochure for details about all our programs.