Baylor University HSSSRP!!

yellowB
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:18:14 +0000

hi, i was able to contact to 2 summer Baylor students of 2009. I like to share what they said about the program:

"If your son has no other plans for the summer, I would have him do the program. I had a couple college essay questions asking about what I did over the summer so I think it’s really good to have an experience like this to talk about. I knew going in to the program that I was not going to be working on a project of my choosing. After some deliberation my mom told me that even if I don’t understand what I will be working on, I will have a great experience so I decided to go. And she was right. I didn’t enjoy so much what I was working on but I had an awesome experience. I got to see a small glimpse of what college was like before actually getting there. About the cost: I looked at attending many different summer programs and the program at Baylor was the cheapest. Food and room and board are included plus the college credit. If I remember correctly it was about $80 when I went. Overall, I definitely felt like it was worth my time and money. I was able to put this experience on my resume and it looks great. It helped me get in to a research lab in college and has been beneficial in applying for internships. I hope this was helpful! "

"If you son doesn’t have any other summer plans or programs, HSSSRP would be a good choice, so that he has something fun and educational to do. Since he seems to be considering the sciences, doing research at Baylor would definitely help him get a feel for whether research specifically is something he enjoys. I’m not sure if he’s had any experience with a research program before, but basically, he would be working in a lab with graduate students to help supplement their research and get insight on what sort of work scientists do. If you go to the Baylor HSSSRP website, they have abstracts and/or papers of what previous participants did, which would give you an idea of some of the things students learned. Of course, there is the presentation everyone has to do at the end of the program as well.

The Baylor program is small, ten people I think, and so he’d also get to meet some new people from different schools and get to know them well. Other than the research, staying at Baylor over the summer gave me a preview of what college life was like so that was pretty fun, and if your son’s never done any sort of summer program/camps before, it’s a good experience just to live on his own on a college campus. "