What Harvard Summer School Doesn’t Teach
“Big-name summer programs are not what move the needle. Their value is in the transformative experience students can have, learning real skills, exploring their potential and giving tasters of professions.” - Ivy League College Admissions Consultant
What Students Need to Stand Out In Their Futures:
Boosted Confidence
Enhanced Leadership Qualities
Valuable Public Speaking Experience
Advanced Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills
Strengthened Grit and Adaptability
In Just 2 weeks, Futures Forge Students Rapidly Accelerate Beyond Their Peers
Our Alumni Stand Out
Futures Forge alumni have a dramatic advantage applying for, and arriving at, their universities and internships.
Our alumni are more confident, better leaders, better teammates, better speakers. They are elite problem-solvers and critical thinkers. They have superior grit and adaptability. They take responsibility and initiative.
It shows in their personal essays, their interviews, and—most importantly—their first day on campus and on site.
Our Founders Know What it Takes to Win.
Futures Forge’s founders, Nat Greene and Erik Fogg, bring unmatched expertise in developing young talent for top employers. Nat, who founded Stroud International in 2001, led the company to be named Best Small Consulting Firm in America seven times in eight years, producing executives and company founders who lead major organizations early in their careers. Erik, an MIT graduate and seasoned entrepreneur, has led three venture-backed startups, founded two, and successfully exited one after raising $25M and scaling to nearly 60 employees. Together, they’ve crafted Futures Forge’s Catalytic Learning system, grounded in educational psychology and neuroscience, which deeply engages students and accelerates their mastery of critical skills. Students consistently say they learn more in two weeks at Futures Forge than in years of traditional schooling.
Hear From Students
“The Skills for Success course taught me skills that I would never have gained in a traditional classroom. Instead of tackling problems with brute force, I've learned to approach them from a different perspective and efficiently arrive at an effective solution.”
-Annika (United States), S4S 2024
“After this course, you will be able to consult like an actual consultant.”
-Esther (China, Cal Berkeley Undergrad), S4S 2024
“The 2 weeks at Skills for Success are invaluable. These skills and attributes are incredibly relevant to your personal, academic, and professional life.”
-Aaden (Singapore), S4S 2024
“This is one of the few courses that can take you from overachiever to over-overachiever.”
-Gian (Nicaragua), S4S 2024
"Big-name programs such as Harvard Summer School and CTY do not move the needle of admissions all that much. Their great value is the potential for a transformative experience which the student can write about in their essays or even better, help focus their entire college application. Futures Forge does that, by teaching real world skills, inspiring students to live up to their potential, and giving a taste of professions which might narrow down their target colleges and proposed areas of study."
- Ivy League College Admissions Consultant
Advice on Choosing a Summer Program
You Must Develop These Skills To Stand Out To College Admissions
You’re smart, and others are smart, too: unfortunately, the Ivy League doesn’t have enough seats for everyone who’s smart enough. To differentiate yourself, you need to take action now and demonstrate proficiency in a set of skills that will strengthen your application - and set you up for success long after.
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“Just do it!. You’ll learn more in 2 weeks than in 2 years of high school. You learn so many useful skills that you never learned in high school and you meet lifelong friends."
-Zeybek, S4S 2024
“This program has triggered me to grow myself. By creating an environment for innovative approaches, facilitating open feedback and by putting students in situations where they need to problem solve effectively, Futures Forge taught me so much.”
--Olivia, S4S 2024