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<li>Neither</li>
<li>It depends on what classes you took and what you did with them.</li>
<li>Colleges are interested in students who pursue their passion. If you want to become an FBI agent in the future, then participating in the FBI internship program may be helpful to YOU, but don’t do anything with the intention of making your college applications look better – Admissions Officers can smell that from a mile away.</li>
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<p>BTW: Harvard’s Summer School Program or Yale’s will NOT increase your overall chances to the college. That said, if a high school student takes a Harvard summer school class that is taught by a Harvard professor, and that class has a limited enrollment (15 students or less) where the professor can get to know you as a student, and you do extremely well in that class (A+ work), a professor MIGHT agree to write you a recommendation to the college. I know there are a lot of “if’s and might’s” in that sentence – but it does happen, and it has helped some students get a leg up in the process.</p>
<p>The reality though is that Harvard Summer school classes are real college classes compressed into a tight time frame. Because the classes cover the same amount of material in half the amount of time, the work load is significant; some classes expect students to read 300 to 500 pages of material a week, with a paper due every class. Very few high school students can keep up with the work load and get A+'s, let alone get a recommendation from their professor.</p>