People to People program - my school's ignorance cost me a GREAT opportunity. HELP!

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<p>Does anyone here take 16 **** subjects? (11th grade)
I just want to reassure myself that others suffer too. I don’t mind a lot of subjects. But you know, bar French and Philosophy and 14 is good, dammit.
Oh and to add an extra dose of insult, my school administration is very segregative. Not in race or anything, mind you, but in grades. </p>

<p>Ever heard of the People to People program? Sort of similar to MUN, looks awesome on your college application…
Well, I have an ‘A’ GPA (not sure how much on a 4.0 scale, it’s different here), pretty good extracurriculars considering what my school offers (very limited) - some outside experience (let’s say I’m working on a mini-robot with my dad, who’s an electrical engineer) and minimal community service and job experience, though I’ll definitely amend that this coming summer. So let’s say I have all that. Plus an award for English writing, beating out the best of all my country. Enough for MIT or Harvard? Most probably not. PtP is a great achievement, and definitely aids your application to top colleges. My school, so conveniently for me, did not tell me about it. Why? Because I’m rank 4 in my class, not 3. And actually, I have a LOT more achievements than the top 3 in 5 classes of 30 students each, bar 2 students, and SAT scores that should reach 1500+ (CR & M) by June. I don’t mean to be mean, but barely anyone gets scores that high on the SAT in my school. 1 person in its history, I believe.</p>

<p>So yeah, what the hell. Does anyone know anything about the People to People program? My student affairs representative from the admin. said that he already sent the nominations and the deadline was April 17. Thing is, I only knew about this 3 days ago. I’m really dying to go, I need it more than anyone else in my school, since so few are seriously considering applying in the States (probably just 2 students aside from me who can actually make it in). So if anyone knows of a way, or if my SA dude is wrong, please do help. I’m definitely going to contact the organization but I thought I’d get some outside information first.</p>

<p>The program is, like I said, similar to the MUN, and a great experience and great extracurricular activity. Plus I’d be traveling for a week with my friends to Harvard. (!)</p>

<p>This is really important, so I’d really appreciate any help. Thanks :)</p>

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<p>From what I know People to People does not have a huge impact on your college applications by any means (nor do any similar programs). In fact, they generally do nothing to aid college apps. The reason? PtP costs a great amount of money to attend, and colleges can’t favor students who have gone to this program over students who have not because, for many, it is too expensive. It’s not anything to worry about if you don’t go.</p>

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<p>From my knowledge, People to People isn’t that big on your college application.</p>

<p>There are surely better programs out there for you that can save you money, and stands out. So don’t stress!</p>

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<p>People to People is has no power in strengthening your college application. If it did, I would have known about it already & try to pursue it.</p>

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<p>People to People doesn’t add to your college application. It was a lot of fun to go to Australia, and was completely worth it. </p>

<p>Definitely don’t stress over it, as it really won’t be the thing that prevents you from getting in to MIT.</p>

<p>If you want to go somewhere, plan it yourself and fly there. It was fun to go on a trip with other people, but that was 7-8th grade. In high school I’d much rather fly to some remote place and travel around.</p>

<p>I’d say that you should plan a trip with your friends to go all over Europe or Asia or Australia.</p>