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In order to accomplish the goals we set for our campers, we rely on a staff of enthusiastic, motivated and skilled women and men who love camp, enjoy working with girls and young women, and have knowledge they want to share. Our counselors are college students, educators, athletes, artists, performers and youth workers age 19 or older. They come from a variety of states, countries and fields of study, but they have at least two things in common: they love children, and they love a challenge.

You have probably already started to form an image of Bryn Mawr in your head. Chances are it looks something like the camp in The Parent Trap: cute little girls in uniforms running around the woods playing youthful pranks on each other and learning valuable lessons about sisterhood and the power of friendship. We like that movie too, and we like to think there’s a resemblance. But have you ever noticed what’s missing in The Parent Trap? How about this: other than Miss Inch, the crochety old camp director who gets a cake in the face, where is the staff? Who’s watching the kids?

Now imagine you’re a counselor. You got up at 8 o’clock this morning, wrestled your campers into shorts and t-shirts, walked them through breakfast and cleanup, got them off to their morning electives, worked two periods in your program area, met your kids for lunch, spent rest hour working out an argument over whose socks are whose, worked two more periods, had an hour off to write a letter to your mother, got twelve kids through the showers and out to dinner lineup, and just as you think you’ve made it through in one piece, one of your campers gets in a food fight with her look-alike at the big social with Boy Scout Camp Arrowhead and you’re covered from head to toe in mocha icing, just like old Miss Inch.

Less fun from this perspective, right? Suddenly Parent Trap camp director Miss Inch is a much more sympathetic character. Time to face reality. Camp is fun. Camp is crazy. Camp is running around the woods playing youthful pranks and learning valuable lessons about sisterhood and the power of friendship. And camp is hard work.

We don’t want to crush your camp spirit. We share those ideals. But we also don’t want to sell you a vision of camp that’s less than realistic. In a perfect world, camp would be nothing but good times and s’mores, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Everyone in camp is human, and humans, particularly kids, are prone to occasional mood swings, disagreements and outbursts. The personal and professional rewards you’ll receive as a member of the Bryn Mawr staff are not handed to you on a platter; as is the case with any rewarding endeavor, they are earned through hard work and dedication. That’s why the people we hire as counselors, in addition to being fun and outgoing, must show us that they are equipped to handle the challenges of living and working with our campers.

The fact that you have taken the time to read this far rather than just skipping to the salary information shows us that you are truly interested in the challenges and rewards associated with joining the Lake Bryn Mawr Camp staff. The information in this section of our website will help you determine whether being a member of our staff is an experience that you are prepared to undertake and which is suited to your personality. There are a number of factors you must consider before making the decision to come to camp for the summer. Please look over the list below as well as the camp information and philosophy, job descriptions and requirements, and consider carefully. If you feel that Bryn Mawr is the right match for you, please proceed to the online application. We look forward to hearing from you.

Before you apply, ask yourself:

• Will I enjoy living and working with children, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for two months?
• Are there any factors that might keep me from going to camp this summer? (Summer classes, boyfriend, family obligations)
• Do I need to make a certain amount of money this summer?
• Will I be able to be flexible about schedule changes and trying new things? Am I able to “go with the flow?”
• How do I feel about spending the summer away from home, in a new place full of new people?
• Am I able to commit to the Staff Week and camp session dates?
• Am I willing to live by the standards set for Lake Bryn Mawr Camp staff?

Bryn Mawr really changed my life in more ways than one, and I know it is only something that people at Bryn Mawr can actually understand. The girls and I always reminisce and talk about how amazing it really was. I do not know if I ever told you this but I feel as though I can honestly say that last summer was the best summer of my life.
~ Michelle B., Canada