<p>yeah. i got the same impression from Columbia’s website (pretty average). How much does admission into selective summer programs affect college admission. When I spoke to the regional admission officer for UPENN, she said that the same people that evaluate college admissions evaluate summer applications so that you may get name recognition when applying for college (if that makes sense). The schools that I am looking at for college are duke, upenn (wharton), columbia, cornell, northwestern</p>