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

<p>I have seen these two programs mentioned only on CC. They don’t appear on any lists of recommended programs published by our high school counselors and I’ve never heard parents talking about them. I asked my daughter to look into TASP but she said the topics were really narrow and none of them fit her current interests. Would someone really do TASP just for the prestige if they aren’t interested in the topic? (The History and Images of Hollywood’s Africa is the Texas topic) Did we miss something else TASP provides?</p>