<p>1moremom: Surprisingly enough, I actually wasnt accepted into SHC. However, we had a presentation with more information about the program right before our interviews, and the program founder made a comment about them finding a way into SHC for any scholarship recipient who was not accepted. Not to sound cocky, but she legitimately claimed the admissions for SHC makes mistakes, and that the scholars are the top 0.5% of incoming freshmen who were accepted to either Eberly or the College of Engineeing. Also, thankyou for your point, that’s very true, I can see being in the program meaning having an advantage.</p>
<p>Luv: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe you are talking about the Summer LEAP program which is offered to all students. At that same presentation which I mentioned above, she claimed the program is literally more of a “military lifestyle, so expect to work hard.” We were told we would wake up around 8 or 9 and attend morning classes until noon, then we would eat lunch followed by afternoon classes until around 5 or 6. Lastly, we would attend classes after dinner until about 9pm. This schedule is for 5 days a week, followed by mandatory community service on Saturday. Sundays we would have off. However, I’m certainly fine with giving up my final summer for a full ride. The problem lies in wanting to have a social life but still being able to keep a 3.5 GPA through difficult Thermodynamics and Equilibria classes in my future years of ChemE.</p>