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

Tyler09
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:45:05 +0000

TASP and RSI are the two top, most competitive, most prestigeous summer programs in the nation, believe it



But does anybody have any EVIDENCE of it?

any quotes from an actual college?

any results of somebody with the stats of a hooked applicant getting accepted because they went to TASP?

I’m very skeptical because if TASP truly was the “most prestigious summer program in the nation” I’m sure they would compete a lot harder to recruit the brightest students in the country, beyond just sending them one brochure in the mail, while most of them have never heard of it before.

And it is VERY true that the word TASP means nothing to the overwhelming majority of top high school students.

So does anybody have any evidence that one program, whether it be TASP, RSI, or whatever, carries any more weight in admissions than your local college’s program?