Is there any evidence of specific summer programs boosting admissions chances?

forizzlejdl
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:47:13 +0000

i think the fact that a kid goes out and does something meaningful or something they enjoy during their summer is what colleges REALLY only care about. the notion that a student went out and found TASP/RSI (or even did well enough on the PSAT to get notified of it) looks good in itself - it shows initiative?

the fact that they were accepted on top of that is even better, because they are very difficult programs to get into the first place.

as its been stated earlier though, it’s causation versus correlation. personally, i think it’s more correlation.