SUMMER JUMPSTART COURSE • LIVE ONLINE • 4 SESSIONS
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Walk into AP®︎* Chemistry
already knowing how it ends.
Most students hit week three and realize the textbook assumed they remembered everything from honors chem. This course makes sure your student is not that student.
WHY THIS SUMMER
Once it begins, it’s so much harder.
AP Chemistry moves fast. The first unit assumes students remember stoichiometry, periodicity, and bonding in detail, and the exam expects them to apply all of it at speed. Most kids spend the first month of school catching up instead of keeping up.
This four-session course closes that gap before it opens. Students review the concepts that AP Chemistry builds on and get early exposure to the kinds of problems the course is actually known for: the ones that make high schoolers briefly reconsider their career plans.
Four sessions will not make AP Chemistry easy. But they will make sure your student walks in with a head start, genuine confidence, and a working sense of what this course actually asks of them.
WHAT YOU’LL COVER
Four sessions. Chosen because they matter most.
The Stuff You Think You Remember
A sharp review of molar mass, stoichiometry, and solution chemistry, taught at the pace AP Chem will actually use them. No slow review — just the version your student needs to know cold before August ends.
Why Atoms Do What They Do
Electron configurations, periodic trends, and intermolecular forces — taught from the "why" instead of the "memorize this." AP Chem rewards understanding over recall. This session builds that habit.
The Part That Surprises Most Students
An early introduction to thermodynamics and equilibrium — two concepts that show up everywhere in AP Chem. We cover them here so they land as familiar ground in September, not new territory.
Thinking Like the Exam
A look at how AP Chem actually tests what students know: multi-step problems, free response structure, and the reasoning that separates a 3 from a 5. Students leave with a clear picture of what the course demands.
Parent — current AP Chemistry student
My daughter took honors chem and done well. She came out of the first month of AP Chem pretty shaken. I wish we had done something like this beforehand.
Sarah M.
Enrolled in the 2025
Student — junior, enrolled in AP Chemistry
I got the highest grade on the first test of the year. I was confused as everyone else because I am NOT that student. That feeling alone was worth it.
Marcus T.
Completed the summer program, 2025
Parent — two kids through AP sciences
We did not do a prep course for AP Bio and watched our son stumble in the first month. We did this for our daughter's AP Chem year. Different experience entirely.
Janet K.
Enrolled in the 2025
WHO TEACHES THIS
People who actually know what trips students up.
Not just people who know chemistry — people who know where the wheels come off and how to get them back on.
Bryan doesn't teach AP Chem by throwing a wall of chemical equations at you. He teaches it by breaking reactions down into core, repeatable patterns, so students understand the why without getting caught up in the details. If you've ever memorized a solubility rule but froze when asked to explain the intermolecular forces pulling it apart, that's his favorite puzzle to solve.
Bryan has taught AP Chemistry for over 15 years. He is a veteran chemistry teacher who has taught at private independent day and boarding schools across the U.S. He is known as a teacher with high expectations but matches those with high support.
Give your student a year they are actually ready for.
Registration closes when sessions fill. No more than 10 students are accepted per section. Four sessions and a head start that compounds over the whole school year. Course is $90/student.
Questions before enrolling? Reach out directly to enroll@chemdunn.com.