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

dsultemeier
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:21:16 +0000

Unfortunately my kids aren’t that cooperative (as far as the topics go). But I agree on the community part as my daughter has gone to a math camp the past two summers and the best part was meeting other kids who liked math. Regarding the counselor listing my D goes to a small Catholic all-girls school. They have been listing the following summer programs on the website: Bank of America Leadership, Notre Dame leadership, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas A&M Veterinary camp. I see today they added a long list of every possible summer program except TASP is still not included. My son goes to a large public school and their summer list on the website includes quite an assortment of summer programs but not TASP. Now I am getting very curious about TASP not being publicized especially since the Austin site is only an hour drive away. I think I will get some informaton from TASP and give it to the counselors and see what they say. I’m sure some students would be interested in the topics. I can understand not publicizing RSI since only one or two students from our school have the minimum PSAT score noted on the RSI website. So the counselor could just tell those students about it. My daughter did hear about RSI at math camp but her PSAT score wasn’t high enough.