<p>Regarding the chance, you don’t seem to have any deadly flaws, so you’ll probably be okay. Your school offers surprisingly nice extracurriculars for the drop out rate. I have a friend who went to HSSC–another Stanford summer program–and he recommended that. Apparently HSSC and EPGY shared the same lunch room, and “the EPGY kids” were a bit “immature.” I don’t know much about either program, just telling what I have heard. You might want to look into that if you’re interested in Stanford this summer, but it doesn’t look like the best program to me (although the admission rate is pretty high). Additionally, if money is a big issue, I think it is even more costly than EPGY. I wish you luck, applying to YESS as white (it is designed for minorities), which is exactly what I plan to do. Even more so as a sophomore. I don’t think you will get accepted, but it is definitely worth a shot. You might have an extremely inspiring story that I don’t know about that you could express in your essays, so I really can’t say.</p>
<p>Here is the list I am looking at (I am a math/science kid also):
<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/summer_programs/more_hs_summer_programs.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/summer_programs/more_hs_summer_programs.shtml</a></p>