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Hi Guys!
The Carnegie Mellon University Summer Academy for Math and Science (SAMS) is a summer program for juniors in high school who are underrepresented minorities. I am actually an alum from this past summer. The 2018 SAMS application has opened and it would mean a lot if you guys could tell these underclassmen about these programs. For those of who don’t know what SAMS is or want to tell your friends who fit their eligibility requirements, it’s a six-week program where you take different STEM classes such as programming, biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc. You do all of this while living in a dorm, making new friends, finding out what college is like, getting to know Pittsburgh, meeting successful professors, and much more. Since they are trying to make a diverse class, they accept students who have with a $100K+ income and 3.2 GPAs and $50K incomes with a $4.3 GPA and anything in between. This note differentiates SAMS from MITES. The acceptance rate for last year was about 10% (127/1031 was the predicted ratio) Since finishing SAMS a few months ago, these are the schools we have been accepted so far to and other stats:
14 of us matched to Questbridge schools
2 of us got into Stanford
1 of us got into Swarthmore
2 of us got into CalTech
2 of us got into MIT
2 of us got into Harvard
2 into Carnegie Mellon
1 into Yale
1 into Carleton
Again, if you guys have any questions, please feel free to ask.
yooo got a 94% on my last apush test. pretty good rebound from my 72% the test before that…
Any good summer scholars (summer camps) opportunities do you recommend? I attended one last year that I was blown away with… looking for another for next summer.
@RightyRiper what one did you attend last summer? I’d be curious to know as I am in the class of 2020, not the class of 2019. I’m considering SPCS (Stanford) which is available to rising seniors but I haven’t actually attended there before, so as for recommendation, I can’t recommend it over anything else.
@literallyliteral same…96% on my last apush multiple choice. Finally got my grade to an a
@ak2018 just wondering what counts as a under represented minority? Also, how much is the actual cost of the program?
@MangoLover11223 For the most part, almost every race expect just straight Caucasian. We had about 3/127 Caucasian-only students and a good portion of others were a mix of white and another race/ethnicity. We also had like at least 10 students of Asian/Indian descent. Many of the same SAMS students last year were either African-American (such as myself) or Hispanic. Also, the reason why I did not include “low-income” was because they really like to select students from many tax brackets, which is great!
The cost of the program is literally FREE! The $100 deposit they suggest you make is optional and goes onto your CMU card to use as CMU spending money for books and supplies from the bookstore. You won’t really need to spend money on textbooks though, if you know where to look online. Your CMU card allows you to do so much too and the way the program is structured, you are given quite a lot of freedom in terms of what you want to do besides classes. Your CMU card allows to get around Pittsburgh for free as well as the fact that in-building curfew is 11pm every weeknight and 12am every weekend. They try to make it as much like college as possible. There are literally so many places you could go and honestly you should make as many memories as you can by going, if you get in. I remember all of the late night Target-runs runs we’d make as we tried to get all of our shopping done before the bus came back and we would miss curfew. And there are so many museums, theaters, and sport stadiums that offer CMU discounts. Not only that, but since SAMS is funded by endowments, every weekend the RAs (residential advisors would schedule multiple outings that are free for you guys to attend. But yeah, your CMU card will literally take care of you. In terms of spending money, I would say bring up to $250-$300 for to pay for emergencies, birthday dinners, and late-night shopping and anything you could think of. Here are the links to both the SAMS and Pre-College program applications. Pre-College/APEA is a CMU program for the more wealthy kids (meaning you have to pay about $10K) but for low-income students, there are a limited amount of full scholarships. As an added bonus, for all students who apply, PM me for my name as you can use it for a reference on the app. PM me if you have any questions. Admission into the program is rolling-decisions based, which means if you apply now or ASAP, they’ll be more holistic and you’ll get a decision by next Monday! Good luck!
https://admission.cmu.edu/apply/?sr=24097637-4ae7-4e63-bdf0-c5c786f41668
https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/access-sams
https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/access-apea
@RightyRiper You could check out the SAMS or Pre-College program if you are a minority.
@Hamlon Do you happen to have a list of summer programs from a while ago?
I was also pictured in a SAMS article over the past summer and there are videos on YouTube about it if you want to learn more.
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/september/largest-sams-class.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6Ieu4ST14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfja5JMGxz8&t=27s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJIyr87vk8
@ak2018 There’s a really good list on Reddit rn.
@Hamlon Thanks. I saw it. I’ll ask the user to give the hyper-linked list so I can post it here.
Hey @Hamlon I applied to LEDA and am planning to apply to MITES this year. Where did you end up spending your summer after all?
Sorry for the unexpected question lol but I’ve been reading like past threads from both LEDA and MITES and your name has popped up a lot.
Hey, I’m new to this forum. What are you guys doing for the summer/thinking of applying to?
@cesar30 I didn’t get into LEDA and had the choice between E2@MIT and Carnegie Mellon’s summer diversity program. I ended up spending the summer at Carnegie Mellon. (If I were you, I’d apply to SAMS bc the summer diversity program was a lukewarm experience for me.)
I wish I could do a summer camp! I’m most likely interning at AFRL again this summer (to earn money for a car) and going to a 2-week Cadet Officer School with Civil Air Patrol.
So guys, I’ve struggled a bit with weight and although I’m a healthy weight now from eating healthier and exercising, I’d like to be fitter (not really skinnier). Most teen girls I know are at healthy weights and don’t exercise, play sports, or pay attention to what they eat… is this typical for you guys and gals? Especially to y’all who don’t play sports, do you exercise, and if so, what do you do? Even when I eat healthy, I have to work out like 4x/week to maintain!
Also, I just turned 17!
A great Reddit post for you guys looking for things to do.
First semester is approaching an end, meaning applications for any summer programs are beginning to release for us juniors. List any summer programs along with links to the application/information page or ask any questions about a summer program.
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Interships
State Governor School
Governor School Programs by State
MIT
Emory University
Summer Scholars Research Program
Carnegie Mellon
Summer Academy for Mathematics and Science
NC State University
Raleigh Engineering Residential Camps
Boston University
Research in Science & Engineering (RISE)
Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS)
Ohio State University
Stanford University
SMYSP Summer Residential Program (SRP)
Science Technology and Reconstructive Surgery
Stanford Pre-Colliegate Studies
AwesomeMath
Mathcamp
University of Texas
UT-Austin
The Summer Science Program
William & Mary
US Service Academies/Military
Telluride Association
Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP)
Stony Brook University
Simons Summer Research Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC Disease Detective Camp (DDC)
Yale University
Murray State University
Texas State University
University of Minnesota
Summer Research Scholars Program
Illinois
Everything available in the state of Illinois
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Field Museum
DNA Residency for High School Students
Fred Hutch Cancer Institute
Summer High School Internship Program
Rockefeller University
Summer Science Research Program (SSRP)
Michigan State University
High School Honors Science, Math, and Engineering Program (HSHSP)
University of Iowa
Secondary Student Training Program
University of Florida
Secondary Student Training Program
Kean University
Group Summer Scholars Research Program
MDI Biological Laboratory
High School Student Summer Research Fellowship
UPenn
Management and Technology Summer Institute
Student Conservation Association
UC
NC State University
Summer Textile Exploration Program (STEP)
Savannah College of Art and Design
Notre Dame
Notre Dame Leadership Seminars
Princeton University
Princeton Labratory Learning Program
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America
UC Hicago
Brown University
Northwestern
SPARC
University of Maryland
Department of State
Washington University in St. Louis
John Hopkins
University of North Carolina
@cesar30 I agree with @Hamlon in terms of not doing the summer diversity AP/EA program and applying for SAMS instead. While I was at CMU, I heard quite a bit about the lack of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in the non-SAMS programs from those same kids who came to our hall frequently. I’ve got to admit, being in a program for minorities definitely had its perks and it honestly gave me more of a community to relate to in terms of my racial identity. Like I remember on some nights, one of our RAs organized an unofficial get-together on our floor for all of the black and brown guys in this one guy’s room (just because most of the people on our floor were black or brown). We just sat there for an hour before curfew talking about sports, science, religion, the portrayal of black and brown races/ethnicity in the media, and just being black and brown in general. It was honestly one of the most memorable conversations I’ve had at SAMS. I also remember visiting CMU’s most dominant black fraternity/sorority with that same RA and on the last day of the academy, we just talked about post-academy life as both my Latina and black friends debated about the theory of the fifth dimension and how that was the key to time travel! It was honestly such an honor to have been in their presence.
So this is a pretty vague question but I’ve been wondering about it for a long time. The whole thing with URMs and ORMs kinda confuses me. So I’ve gathered that Asians are widely regarded as ORMs by colleges and Africans/Hispanics are URMs, but what about all the other races? Like whites, etc. what do they count as? Does the college app differentiate between the different types of Asians/White by asking if they are from Vietnam or the Middle East?
how will you know if you get accepted int SAMS
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