Cool DC Government/Public Policy Summer Program (Rising Seniors)

Orfling
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:00:48 +0000

Hey yhbultimate11, I’m not a DC local but at least 6-7 out of my SPS classmates were local kids from DC or close in Maryland/Virginia. One guy lived in the dorm as a residential student and I think the rest of them did the program as day students. From conversations with them they felt like it was really worth it and they were doing stuff that they either didn’t have time for during the year or they just wouldn’t have access to (we had one speaker from the CIA who was amazing, for instance, and we went to watch Meet the Press in person and talked to the host, etc etc I forget it all I should re-read the blog if I’m going to play the expert!). They also hung out with us on the fun weekend stuff – the day students could pick and choose what they did so if they didn’t want to do something like go to a baseball game they just would join us later or in free time.

I know a couple of my classmates from this past summer asked the program if they could talk to former students and said it helped in their decision making so I bet you could ask for contact info of a local DC student and they’d connect you.