<p>As a CTY alum, having spent the 5 best summers of my life at these camps, I’m wondering how much this connection will help me when it comes time to apply to JHU next year? In addition to the summer camps, I am currently enrolled in an online AP course through CTY. I could honestly write a great essay about how CTY changed my life, and I’d imagine that this would be an additional + on my app to Hopkins. If it matters, every summer course that I took (excepting ethics) was related to an international topic, and I would plan to major in International Relations if accepted.</p>
<p>I think the general consensus is that having done CTY will help your application, but not more so than if you had taken courses at another top college. The focus/dedication/passion for international issues will definitely look good, as will going beyond your high school curriculum to take an online AP class. That said, there’s no way to quantify how much any of those things will help your application.</p>
<p>Also read:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/738734-does-attending-summer-program-have-advantage-admissions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/738734-does-attending-summer-program-have-advantage-admissions.html</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/756293-cty-hopkins.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/756293-cty-hopkins.html</a></p>
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<p>I would certainly think that being part of CTY shows your academic prowess, however, the courses offered through this program are simply not affordable for many families so I would hope it would not be a deciding factor in admissions.</p>
<p>While academically it may not be different than taking classes at a good state uni, CTY signals the possibility of a full-pay. If Hopkins’ finance doesn’t improve, it could work in your favor.</p>
<p>To reply to your point, and to mumof2boyz as well, you are operating under an understandable, but not absolute assumption of wealth. While in my case it is true that my family was able to afford CTY, and as I understand it, nearly if not full pay at JHU, that was not the case for many of the friends that I made at CTY. I agree that it is reasonable to assume disposable income through my participation in this wonderful program-but do not assume this for everybody, I implore you. Some of the best friends that I made at these camps were there on scholarships. While I would assume from my experience that the majority of CTYers are of relative affluence, it is certainly open to lower income families. In addition to many of my friends being there on scholarships, a different friend of mine revealed that in order to send him to CTY, his family had forgone vacations for the entirety of his attendance.
Sorry to go on a tangent there, but I just hope that you won’t in the future jump to such conclusions about the students of these and other similar programs.
PaperChaserPop, I do, in a sick sort of way, hope that the current financial crisis is able to give me some advantage due to my family’s ability to cover my undergrad college costs. Gogo being an only child of parents with foresight.</p>
<p>I don’t think it helps. It didn’t seem to help my app at all.</p>
<p>Will it help to list CTY on your app? Hard to say. For what it is worth, my son attended the crown jewel of summer programs at Hopkins; Summer University, and got a big fat deferred during the ED decisions. He wasn’t the only one either. Many of the friends he made received the same decision. Worst of it was, I was on a work share program and really didn’t have all sorts of money to go back and forth to B’more let alone pay the full shot. In the end I did and don’t regret it at all. He made some outstanding friends and I got to go to Hopkins as something other than a cadaver. 
Met some really cool people too. What it will do is turn you into an academic prostitute. There are other colleges and universities that will throw money at you in ways you can’t imagine just so you will go there. List it on all your apps. It can’t hurt.</p>
<p>I’ve already commented about how much impact CTY has in the application review – Thanks *tanman *for locating my previous posts. </p>
<p>I do want to respond to this though: </p>
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<p>No it does not. CTY runs an extensive array of programs throughout the country and world and many of these program can be inexpensive and many also provide scholarships and grants. There is no way I can determine a student’s financial need when I review an application of a student who has attended one of multiple CTY programs. First, I have no idea the cost of the program, and more significantly we do not ask a student whether they paid for the program in full, received a scholarship/grant for the program, or the program was paid for them by a third party. </p>
<p>More significantly what determines a student’s financial need is one thing and one thing only – their application for financial aid. </p>
<p>Hopkins may not be need-blind, but I have explained our admissions-financial aid decision-making quite clearly on other threads. The assumption that we are only looking for “full-pay” students or are factoring in financial need when reviewing an individual application is simply incorrect.</p>
<p>Daniel, of course it does. I didn’t say it definitely is, I said “the possibility”. But, thank you for the explanation on how admissions work with this “signal” - it chooses to not even detecting it. I stand corrected on this issue.</p>
<p>To take that on a bit of a tangent, just going from your comment that you aren’t need-blind, would you see and take into account that I will not be applying for any financial aid? My family is able to send me full pay, and will not qualify for any need-based aid, so will this be taken into account in my application’s consideration?</p>
<p>It’s need-blind unless there’s a shortage of FA, in which case it determines which “borderline” applicants to accept based on their ability to payfrom what I understand.</p>