<p>I am currently a junior. I live in San Francisco. Now I really want to apply a program about which college will look at it seriously. What program should I apply? (If it is very good, it doesn’t matter where it is.)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.93/4.00</p>
<p>AP Calculus 5 (Self-study)
AP Biology 5 (Self-study)
Science Research Club President
Volunteer at a hospital for 300 hours
Science Olympiad in my school</p>
<p>I know that I have not done any outstanding things, but please help. Thank you.</p>
<p>If you’re only looking for prestige, then you’re probably looking in the wrong place. Summer programs only have so much influence on college admissions, and there is something to be said about having true passion when applying to competitive summer programs.</p>
<p>That aside, it sounds like you are more inclined toward the sciences. I’d recommend CCIS (it’s offered at Stanford, you would have to commute if you attend) and RSI. You can find them fairly easily on google. There’s a fair number of other good science programs if you search around on this forum (I don’t know all of them since I’m not super science-inclined).</p>
<p>And if you’re interested in the humanities, there’s always TASP. Check that out in it’s own thread.</p>
<p>Nothing outstanding… Your like a walking encyclopedia, (thats a good thing.) </p>
<p>If I were you try something DIFFERENT. </p>
<p>forgottenhawk named off all the prestigious programs, but in the end those programs are just names on a paper, albeit good names on a paper. </p>
<p>Back to my point DIFFERENT. Try some cultural emersion or something that you wouldnt automatically do. As good as it is to have a focus which it seems like you do (science.) Highschool and college is a period of experimentation both socially and intellectually. It seems to me you have hit up the second one, but the first one is just as important. Im not talking about going out on friday nights I mean go out there and let something challenge the way you think. I know my bay area school is pretty sheltered, and I take fault in the fact that i havent stepped up to the plate. In the end if you look at the topics colleges ask for your recomendation letters to cover, it is normally split between academic and SOCIAL maturity. Not saying you arent mature but you can have some really great experiences this summer which could help you grow alot as a individual, even doing something other than a lab internship or paying 12k on SSP or what not.</p>
<p>Furthermore most of these programs are shorter so you can sort of spice things up by doing a few completely different programs, instead of a bunch of similar ones this summer.</p>