Research: with a professor or at a summer program?

neela1
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:33:46 +0000

Well regarded summer research programs have high placement rates into colleges that you may think are good. As an example nj gov school for sciences had 50% of their 60 person cohort place into hypsm and 80% into t20 a few years ago.

This is because the process of being selected for the program as an extra external validation of the kid. At a minimum it means the school picked you ad the top kid in science from the school and nominated you. And then that pool is condensed down from some 400 to 50 or 60. Someone had time to look at you thoroughly. RSI is another example of a program that has a good record of college placements. I think Simons at stony Brook places well. Any random individual professor will do a poorer job than these numbers. There are several others. You should ask people who had stem kids place into colleges rather than the general population on CC