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Top-performing students are choosing to spend their summers doing what failing students are forced to do

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Academia has long-perceived summer school as a dreaded purgatory where failing students toil away their precious summertime months.

So the fact that any student would choose to spend his or her summer vacation in the classroom may come as a surprise.

But that’s exactly what many high-achieving students have started to do as high schoolers, predominantly in competitive areas like New York City and the Bay Area, realize the benefit for their GPAs, The New York Times’ reported.

At the Hun School, for example, a Princeton, New Jersey-based boarding school, summer school enrollment increased 16% since 2014, The Times reported.

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Source:: BusinessInsider.Com