The setting of the novel I'm currently taking out for what is hopefully the final full rewrite is a "pre-college program" for exceptional high school students to get a feel for the college environment, get some classes out of the way, blah blah blah...
I made it up.
It's real.
Okay, it's not exactly how I had described it--but it's real! The exact college I based the campus off of does offer high school girls (it's a women's college) access to a variety of summer classes. Which means, instead of handwaving everything, I can take what's actually real about this actually real program, combine it with my actual experience as a high school sophomore at Earlham Explore-A-College, and make something real.
I'm super excited. Research is way more fun than I thought it was.
I made it up.
It's real.
Okay, it's not exactly how I had described it--but it's real! The exact college I based the campus off of does offer high school girls (it's a women's college) access to a variety of summer classes. Which means, instead of handwaving everything, I can take what's actually real about this actually real program, combine it with my actual experience as a high school sophomore at Earlham Explore-A-College, and make something real.
I'm super excited. Research is way more fun than I thought it was.