I’d rather have the opinion of someone who’s attended the summer college, but all replies are welcome. Is the college credit earned applicable to whichever college I attend if it ISN’T Stanford? What is the acceptance rate of the program? What is the cost of the program (I’ve noticed they’ve conspicuously failed to mention it in the letter)? I was planning on taking an SAT prep program over the summer, would the summer college be a worthy replacement of my time? How much do you believe this program affected your admission to college? If you’ve taken this program, what are the pro’s and con’s? Although I’m sure the program is meant as a money grabber for the university, since it counts for college credit, I can assume it probably covers some future course expenses anyways, so isn’t that much of an issue. Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR). I assume the proclaimed money grabber people (although probably accurate) never took up the opportunity or never received the opportunity and are therefore biased.īecause of this divided opinion, I wanted to start up a thread to grab some fresh opinions. MIT does not offer open-enrollment summer programs where any high school student can come. There’s those who say it’s a waste of time and a money grabber, and others who say, although it probably doesn’t affect college admissions very much, it was a good experience. I did a little research about the program on online forums, and there seems to be a controversy about the program. I originally thought this letter was sent out based on GPA, but from what it looks like from online, it’s actually from college board information (for me, it was probably due to the fact that I took AP Computer Science last year and got a 5 on the exam).
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