Berkeley BLIPS Summer Program quality?

Pre-College Issues Summer Programs
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<p>Used to be called HSSRPP</p>

<p>How good is this program, and does this have the same ranking as say RSI, MITES, COSMOS, SSP, Caltech YESS?</p>

<p>This is 7.5 week summer program, pays $2000 to its 30 interns, works at Lawrence Hall, a government/Berkeley national research lab.
We will write an abstract and do our own research related to that of our mentors, who are full time researchers, not graduate students.</p>

<p>So, how is it, link is here:
BLIPS</a> Home</p>

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<p>RSI is by and far more selective, rigorous, and meaningful than BLIPS. </p>

<p>RSI>MITES>SSP>BLIPS>YESS>COSMOS.</p>

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<p>Agreed that RSI is the top program. BLIPS is a very selective internship. SSP is much easier to get in (someone said >50%). Why SSP>BLIPS?</p>

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<p>I got into BLIPS, but not SSP. I don’t have data for BLIPS (30 / ?), but SSP had about a 13% acceptance rate this year (much lower than previous years because of the increase in applicants).</p>