stormswake

@DreamStanforduni
You should definitely miss school for COSMOS. I went to the UCI one and it was absolutely amazing. Many people consider it "not as prestigious", but the experience is priceless.
I have a friend who also is at a year long school and went to COSMOS. She said that her teachers were understanding, and many were actually impressed that she went to COSMOS. Good luck and have fun applying

ChillyPenguin

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Anyone know any good/prestigious summer schools for a upcoming junior next year?
most likely something related to poliscience, law, government that type of stuff or any internships or that type of thing to understand how these things work at a bigger organization?
(I'm a sophomore currently, so I guess keep that in mind)

Also, how are summer programs at ivy league schools or well known colleges such as Yale, Harvard? Anyone have positive experiences or any input on that?


thanks everyone!

94Iowan13

ChillyPenguin,

Would JSA interest you?
I'm applying or JSA at Georgetown for International Relations.
They have many classes to offer in political science at Georgetown, Standford, and Princeton. Georgetown has the best speakers program.

Google it "Junior Statesmen of America Summer School."

Hope that helped. I'm looking for other programs, too, in case this doesn't work out.
(I too am a sophomore interesed in Political Science!)

Any other programs that you're considering?

ChillyPenguin

Hey! Thanks for the advice, I actually have checked that site out previously per mentioned by someone else on this forum that I do not recall.
Anyways, I'm wondering if that summer program is difficult to get into? Have you gone there?

Other programs that I would want to do would be the Harvard Summer school just for the experience just because I have heard positive remarks about the experience, but people beg to differ on the "looking good on transcript" part.

haha. nice that we are both sophomores and both interested in political science! xD

kaos93

JSA Georgetown ROCKS. And no, it is not terribly difficult to get into. I don't know anyone who applied and didn't get in, but then, I only know 2 other people at my school who did JSA (and they did Princeton and Stanford). I did it between my freshman and sophomore years, and had so so so much fun. I really bonded with a lot of people, and had an awesome time in classes. Food was not great. I actually got kind of sick from the dining hall food once, cuz it's so unhealthy that my body just flat rejected it. But other than that, the program is really, really, really worth it.
(My year, '07, we all met with our senators, except there was a filibuster so a lot of them were too wiped to actually show. The Illinois kids didn't get to meet Obama, but the New York kids saw him debating after coming out of their session. Jealousy was had by all.)
Basically, it's a really awesome experience. And the dorm rooms have individual bathrooms. Think about it.

newperspective

@kaos93, is JSA Georgetown significantly better than JSA Princeton?

ChillyPenguin

cool thanks for the info. ill definitely look into that more

kailia

Harvard Summer School and WTP
are they both super selective and hard to get into? which one is easier?

raiderade

Harvard Summer School is easy to get into. WTP is much more selective and much more challenging. If you get into WTP you should probably go.

ChillyPenguin

for JSA, what's the difference between Georgetown I and Georgetown II?

thanks!

newperspective

@ChillyPenguin, I haven't been, but I'm presuming that the only difference is the dates.

I have a question about JSA, too. How many people are in each session/class? If there are only four classes offered, are there multiple sections of one class?

bacchus

What looks better on college apps:
attending stanford summer school for 8 weeks
or attending sumac for 3

ChillyPenguin

thanks!
im also a tad bit confused on what each course covers..etc. because i can't find it on the JSA website? thanks

anika011

Hi everyone! I attended the Harvard Summer Program this past summer, and it truly was an amazing experience. There is no better way to learn what college life is like then to actually be there.
They offered great science and social science classes! Their wide range of classes specialize in almost every career field. Although I do not know how difficult/easy it is to get accepted to the program, there were more than 1,000 high school students, and 4,000 undergrad students altogether in one summer.
I would highly recommend attending there, and they have great financial aid. The total cost of two classes plus room and board is less than $10K, but they offered me $5,000 and my total family income is $30K. I even know some people who got full financial aid there, without applying through the Questbridge Program.

iceui2

^^ Wow I can't believe your parents spent a sixth of their income to send you to a summer program! I wish my parents would do that.

Anyways, someone should start a thread on 2011 Clark Scholars. Last year's thread was one of the most popular in the Summer Programs forum. Admissions is extremely competitive (<7%), since you get paid $750 to spend 7 weeks in Texas. All the past scholars do well in competitions such as Siemens/Intel. 4 of the 12 scholars last year are now attending Harvard or Stanford.

Here is the website link for anyone who's interested: TTU Clark Scholars Program. Again, I recommend someone starting an official thread if they want to discuss anything about the application. Good luck!