Locations: Ghana, Turkey, Navajo reservation, Poland
Cost: $4,200 to $6,200
Spending a summer abroad soaking up another culture is nothing new. But the 75-year old Experiment in International Living allows high schoolers to spend their breaks tutoring kids in Thailand or building homes in Botswana. Sure, at $6,000 a pop it's a costly proposition. But how many kids will get to put this kind of stuff on their Harvard applications?
