Classroom Experiences
You’ll head to class with professors, admissions counselors, and your new classmates. Each day includes time for your selected course, plus College Admissions and College Success courses.
PRE@MAC: Head to Class
Head to Class 6 Day Program July 25-31
Preview college life at Pre@Mac. Learn with Macalester professors, and discover new skills and tools on your path to college. Participating students are eligible for a minimum $20,000 annual scholarship if they later enroll at Mac. Apply to our Pre@Mac Head to Class program and we’ll see you on campus!
Costs & Details
Your Pre@Mac Experience
The cost for Pre@Mac Head to Class is $1,995. Lodging in a Macalester residence hall, and all on-campus and program off-campus meals are included.
Twin Cities Experiences
Ready to get out and explore? Field experiences, dinners, and other outings will introduce you to all that the Twin Cities has to offer.
Free Time
We know everyone needs time to relax and recharge. There is time in the schedule to sit back and do your thing!
Eligible for a minimum $20,000 annual scholarship
After completion of the Pre@Mac program, participating students who apply, and then are admitted and enroll at Macalester, receive the scholarship automatically.
COURSE OPTIONS
FINDING THE STORY: POETRY AND PROSE
Stories surround us in the everyday and in monumental moments. In this course, create and explore these stories through poetry and fiction. Play with different ways of approaching the page and the writing process, learning the tricks and skills of experienced authors. Refine the way to say what you mean, in the way you mean to say it!
Professor Aurora Masum-Javed
Professor Emma Törzs
Stories surround us in the everyday and in monumental moments. In this course, create and explore these stories through poetry and fiction. Play with different ways of approaching the page and the writing process, learning the tricks and skills of experienced authors. Refine the way to say what you mean, in the way you mean to say it!
Professor Aurora Masum-Javed
Professor Emma Törzs
MODERN AI AS TECHNOLOGY AND CHALLENGE
AI is surging as both a tool, and an ethical challenge. In this course, learn the basic principles and building blocks of Machine Learning systems, including how Large Language Models perform. Alongside this, we’ll explore the positive and negative potential, and what people working in AI ethics are examining.
Professor Susan Fox
AI is surging as both a tool, and an ethical challenge. In this course, learn the basic principles and building blocks of Machine Learning systems, including how Large Language Models perform. Alongside this, we’ll explore the positive and negative potential, and what people working in AI ethics are examining.
Professor Susan Fox
THE POLITICS OF MIGRATION IN THE TWIN CITIES
Human migration is a global phenomenon as is the state practice of migration control. In this course, examine why people migrate, and discover how successive waves of newcomers have shaped the political, social, cultural, and economic landscape of Macalester’s home state of Minnesota. Students will also learn how and why governments try to control migration, and how this control is sometimes resisted.
Professor Lesley Lavery
Professor Wendy Weber
Human migration is a global phenomenon as is the state practice of migration control. In this course, examine why people migrate, and discover how successive waves of newcomers have shaped the political, social, cultural, and economic landscape of Macalester’s home state of Minnesota. Students will also learn how and why governments try to control migration, and how this control is sometimes resisted.
Professor Lesley Lavery
Professor Wendy Weber
Ready to Apply?
Registration will open in Winter 2027. Be the first to know.
Questions? Email [email protected]—we’d love to hear from you!