I won a Blueprint Summer Scholarhip, what to do now?

chaseholl
Thu, 12 May 2011 23:04:48 +0000

My biggest question is do colleges really value this highly?



I don’t think that should really matter. The question should instead be, “Will this help me grow/develop personally and educationally enough to be worth US$700?”.

To answer your original question, no, summer programs are always names on paper. What does matter is not how “prestigious” a program is, but what you get out of it. If they ask what you did over the summer and you say “RSI but it was really lame” (not that such a thing would ever happen), it would not be as good as “Blueprint, and it was awesome because I learned this and that, and I made connections, and I grew emotionally” and so on.