<p>And we didn’t even apply to Brown!! My 10th grader has been getting the deluge of college mail, 5 letters per day for the past week. Most of it looks like junk mail, thick brightly colored enveolpes with clear plastic address boxes. Today he got the junk mail from York, Brandeis, Oberlin, and a much more official looking skinny envelope from Brown. I thought maybe they were rejecting him before he even applied, or perhaps were writing to tell him not to bother to apply. Actually they were plugging their summer program. There is something I never thought of. Let’s see, S could sit around the house all summer honing his video gaming schools or attend summer school at Brown. It’s worth a shot I guess.</p>
<p>There’s a thread about summer programs in the regular Parents Forum (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=32957[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=32957</a>).</p>
<p>My daughter attended the program at Brown in the summer between 11th and 12th grades. She had a lovely time, mostly from living in the dorms; her particular course (in theatre) was a bit disappointing. But I agree with the posters who’ve pointed out that summer programs like these–which are basically open to all, with only a pro-forma application–are worth considering only if they’re fun and/or interesting in their own right; they’re immaterial when it comes to college admissions. As it turned out, Brown was the only school that rejected my daughter, and they didn’t take a single one of her friends from the summer either.</p>
<p>My D’s classmate also attended the summer program and was not accepted ED to Brown. Additionally, the student’s sibling is a student at Brown.</p>
<p>I would have done the summer program at Brown if I had had the money.</p>
<p>Yep, we have got those summer solicitations from Harvard and Stanford.</p>
<p>Where do the colleges get your kids’ names from if they’re only in 10th grade? The PSAT’s?? Aren’t they taken in 11th grade?</p>
<p>All you have to do is express and interest in receiving summer program information from somewhere, anywhere- next thing you know every Ivy has interest. (money talks)</p>