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

Orfling
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:03:47 +0000

Last year I pretty much stumbled over (ok, was “encouraged” to apply to by my parents) an amazing 4-week summer program in DC focused on government, politics, public policy, and public service, called the St. Albans School of Public Service. It is pretty small – only 40 students total – so there is not a lot of information out there about it, I think. I heard about by word of mouth from friends of my parents. It was unbelievable – St. Albans is a pretty connected school for DC so we had access to some amazing stuff, from talking to a current Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Senator to a speech writer for VP Joe Biden. It was a great group of kids from around the U.S. and abroad and because it was four weeks it felt like I really got into things in depth (but also had so much fun). I ended up writing some of my college essays about speakers/experiences I had at St. Albans. (My parents did a lot of “I told you so-ing” to me.)

They had rolling admission (I applied in late February) and seemed to have a decent financial aid program too.

I’m sort of a debate, Model UN, Model Congress type and I’ve gotten a lot of questions about it from kids at my school/in my area so I thought I’d also start a thread and answer any questions people might have.