<p>does attending a summer school at your first chance college higher your chances for admmitance? but wow, kinda expensive, though. 10K for harvard, i heard.</p>
<p>It may help at some colleges, but it doesn’t help at places like Harvard because since it’s most applicants’ first choice college and also has the highest yield in the country, Harvard adcoms don’t care whether applicants have shown interest by going to their summer school.</p>
<p>probably doesn’t help - but hopefully you’ve learned something and will do better in HS</p>
<p>what’s a good method to show your interest towards your first choice college?</p>
<p>Visits, asking reasonably intelligent questions of admissions people (i.e. don’t ask stuff that is easily found on the website), attending local hospitality nights, etc. Applying EA or ED, if you’re willing to take the financial risk.</p>
<p>But really – I agree with NSM that at the Ivy League level demonstrated interest is probably not all that important. Harvard is, well, Harvard – and they assume that all of their applicants are drooling to get in.</p>
<p>Ask for an application and related materials.</p>
<p>Visit.</p>
<p>Interview with the admissions office either on-site or when they visit your school or area.</p>
<p>Find out the name of the regional rep and have the student make contact. Cultivate that person. Send thank you notes for interviews. Stay in touch. Be friendly but not a pest. </p>
<p>Attend local information sessions or college fairs. Make sure to put your name on the sign-up sheets.</p>
<p>Note most of these work better with private colleges then the top publics since the latter don’t need to do any recruiting. They also work better with A-/B+ schools, I thinking specifically of USC, that want to be loved.</p>