<p>The summer before senior year, I was involved in molecular biology research. I was pretty lucky in that my lab was involved with some really cutting edge cloning techniques that I mentioned in the abstract I submitted and probably won me some nerd cred haha.</p>
<p>The summer before junior year, I took a math class to skip precalculus. </p>
<p>Overall, my application was nothing outstanding compared to those of some other Techers. You don’t have to do anything spectacular with your summers to get into Caltech. I joked on my application that I spend most of my summers sitting at home reading Wikipedia, which probably made me sound like some socially deprived maniac. The main thing they care about is that you have a passion for whatever you do (though you should probably make sure it’s STEM related :P). For me, that was chemistry. I’m not sure what that is for you. But make whatever that is very clear, and you’re chances will be fine.</p>