Chance for SSP, YSP @ UC Davis!

jazzdancer2102
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:03:58 +0000

Hi wee one,
Your school sounds very different from the normal IB schools in Mumbai considering you’re from Mumbai. Or you just love this city a lot. ANYWAY.
Personally, Summer Programs are not the best unless you’re doing something like Camp Bizsmart. Rightly put by a professor at IIT who has a son studying at my school, it is just people trying to pay huge sums of money to keep a college running when its classrooms are empty. Most of the time, the real college professors do not even take classes during SSPs. Its usually quite expensive and adds very little value if you’re doing it for college purposes. Buuut if you’re super keen on learning and stuff, go ahead. :3

ECs: Do you have any more? They’re very focused on what you want to do, that’s good… But diversity is great too. Probably a little more to your personality than career oriented ECs? Competitive exams don’t really count under extra curricular activities IMO, but nothing else you’ve done for CAS and stuff if you’re an IB kid or sports/arts?

Rest of the stuff: From what you’re saying, you have a great shot. Summer schools aren’t nearly as selective as college and if you hit a basic benchmark, I see nothing stopping you. GPA is ~ 4.0 if you’re using the American system of an A being above 90 and so on. I’d really, really push you to do internships. Go work with a startup, develop something cool and just get more meaty stuff to get your hands on. :3 I chose not to go to summer school but intern in the Middle East for the same reason.

Good luck!