<p>I am a college student who is working with two of the most talented rising high school juniors at an Upward Bound program. I would like to help them identify prestigious summer programs that they might be interested in participating in next summer.</p>
<p>One of the students is low income, Hispanic, and first in her family to go to college. She doesn't like math or science, but is very interested in the humanities and languages.</p>
<p>The other student is low income, Indian/Persian, and first in her family to go to college. She enjoys both math and the sciences, and she is considering medicine and engineering.</p>
<p>These are some competitive scholarship summer programs:</p>
<p>Math & science:
RSI
MIT Mites
CalTech YESS
Cornell nanobiotechnology internships
Clark University Summer Science Program
Jackson Laboratory Summer Internships
Texas Tech Clark Scholar</p>
<p>Humanities:
Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP)
Carnegie Mellon Summer Program in Art, Architecture, Design or Music & Drama
Foundation for Teaching Economics</p>
<p>Combined:
Carnegie Mellon AP/EA
Grinnell Honor Scholars Program (I"m not sure if this one is still going)</p>
<p>Also, there are many programs that are expensive but offer FA to low income students. They are not usually considered prestigious, but receiving a scholarship to attend them may stand out to AOs.</p>
<p>My DD had been offered a "full ride" to the summer program at Rose-Hulmann. She declined to go to her states Gov. Honors program for latin, but we were very grateful for the opportunity. Might be an option for student geared towards math/science.</p>
<p>The most prestigious/most competitive program is not your (their) only option. I would suggest that you encourage them to apply to at least 4 programs since they need not only admission, but financial aid, to attend.</p>
<p>Those programs previously listed are excellent -- also take a look at these programs, which offer excellent financial aid to good students:</p>
<p>Oxbridge</a> Academic Programs summer program in England -- particularly good for a humanities person and someone who hasn't had the opportunity to go abroad.</p>
<p>check out the summer programs at high mountain institute, Harvard, putney student travel and YFU scholarship programs.</p>
<p>there are quite a few more very good programs that offer excellent financial aid.</p>
<p>Try and match the student interests with a few programs, have them apply EARLY for the best financial aid. Don't waste time on programs that only offer limited financial aid (you can call and ask them what the maximum a student will be awarded). Stanford summer program and Junior Statesmen of America are two of the most notorious for this -- a student with an exceptionally low income (under $30,000) would recieve their maximum award of ~50%, which just wouldn't doable for most poor kids.</p>
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Virginia Techs College of Engineering invites you to participate in a program called C-Tech² - Computers and Technology at Virginia Tech. A primary focus of the program is to help develop and sustain the interests of women in engineering and the sciences. The program allows you to explore applications of engineering, math, and science in a way that is fun and exciting. You will spend the majority of your time involved in hands-on activities designed to increase your interest in and knowledge of applications of engineering, math, and science to real world situations. The target population for the program is rising junior and senior high school girls.