Summer 2009: Yale Summer Session or JSA Yale?

Franciscog24
Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:38:16 +0000

It depends what you take from your experience and the group of kids that you interact with. JSA Summer School at Yale, for me, was not a “joke” and was quite difficult. A 140hr. academic work week (8hrs./day, 6 days/week) is not easy. Maybe at some of the other branches it wasn’t taken seriously, but luckily I had professors that had a lot of knowledge to impart on us and peers that were just as interested in learning and debating as I was. As I said before, there were a lot of sleepless nights since you are being graded and evaluated through tests, papers, and debates. As long as you gained something from a summer program and you are able to share the profound effect that it had on you to an interviewer or on your application they’ll take the program seriously.