New Jersey Scholars Program 2018

lesjubilants
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:41:09 +0000

@xbox678 Oh, you got into Gov School? I didn’t realize that was another dilemma on this thread. Yeah, if you’re more interested in STEM do that.
Also, just as you enter the admissions process, that’s not quite what demonstrated interest is. Demonstrated interest is something measured by schools–they basically track your interest in them by seeing how many times you’ve visited campus, emailed admissions officers, taken online tours, etc. Not all schools do this, but many second-tier schools do to weed out Ivy-sighted kids who are using them as safeties. What you’re talking about is a “spike,” or deep involvement in one subject/activity. However, your activities have to be varied. For example, if you’re a writer, colleges want to see that you’ve taken a class, maybe gone to a summer program, won awards, have been published, maybe tutor students in English, are involved in the school literary magazine, interned at an actual magazine, took AP English classes, etc. What they don’t want to see is repeated activities, like two summer programs that are the exact same thing. Iowa is very similar to a program that person did last summer, so it would not benefit his/her application as much as you seem to think it would, as it is a repeated activity. Ultimately, summer programs do not matter that much in college admissions, and you’re better off doing whatever will give you more personal and academic growth.