Participants often obtain grades generally higher than non participating students.
Our records show that students who attend the workshops have earned a GPA 0.5 points higher than those students not attending the AEWs. Our Summer workshops and our Academic Year workshops both stress collaborative study and academic excellence, but our summer courses are concentrated in a four week period, while our AY workshops are distributed uniformly over the 30-40 weeks of annual instruction and offer greater opportunity to develop a sense of community as well as improved performance and retention. Some of the later programs offer research as well as paid tuition and book allowances.