<p>@jokolomo
- Perhaps you should reread my posts instead. I wrote “what does the prestige of your summer program get you? Some (small) boost in college admissions? Anything else?” (emphasis added). I don’t think prestige is a good reason to go to summer programs. However, there are excellent educational reasons to go to summer programs. Also I’m certainly not looking at high school summer programs anymore as I’m in college. </p>
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<li>First of all Urientel’s posts #17 and #18 never mention any sort of field of study. Also TASP is roughly as prestigious as RSI so the comparison that a humanities should choose TASP over RSI doesn’t imply a whole lot. Perhaps you want to provide some textual evidence for your claim that “It’s clear to me that Urantiel means that the differences on the prestige/value scale only come into the picture when comparing summer programs in the same general field,” as Urientel’s post #18 claims “Looking back at that list, the first 12 programs definitely stand out and are undoubtedly better than the others in terms of prestige, educational experience, and value for the future,” without any such caveats. It’s possible that what Urientel meant is closer to your interpretation and was simply unclear (happens to all of us) but that’s not what a close reading suggests.</li>
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