Is it bad that I'm not doing any summer programs?

DraconicSheep
Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:05:29 +0000

Well, it could be “bad”. All that not having a structure summer program means is that it’s up to you to make your summer productive. There’s still many things you can do.

Take me, for example. My acceptance into any of the programs that I applied for is, at this point, dubious.

So, I’ve assembled a sort of curriculum for myself: volunteering at my hospital, parish and school, prepping the school Science Bowl team, finding a job, self-studying AP Macro, HuG and Psyche, practice writing a personal statement (for when I apply for programs as a rising senior, heh), club planning, SAT prep, camping/ service with scouts, debate prep/ research, tennis (hope to do varsity next year), general enrichment in life-skills (gardening, etc.), anything else I can think of.

It’s up to you to make a summer program for yourself. If your summer is productive, it’s meaningless to a college whether or not you paid college X, Y or Z $1000 per week to make it that way.