City of Hope anyone?

Pre-College Issues Summer Programs
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<p>Reposted stats from another thread</p>

<p>This is for future applicants, I’ve listed my stats and summer programs I applied to and whether accepted/rejected. Feel free to repost this in the appropriate summer program’s threads.</p>

<p>SIMR; Accepted
City of Hope: Rejected [didn’t make 2nd round]
Jackson Lab: Rejected
Clark Scholars: Rejected
Craig Venter: Rejected
NIH SIP: rejected</p>

<p>Stats:
White male from the CA, both parents went to college (ie no hooks)
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.4 W
Tests: SAT 2380, PSAT 231, SAT II’s: Chem 800, Math II 800, French 800</p>

<p>Awards:
Honors list chem olympiad (top 150 nationally)
National merit finalist
Student of the year 5x in high school
AIME qualifier
(some other minor awards)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars etc:
SHARP Research Internship at UC Berkeley in nanophotonics (4 weeks paid, 2 weeks from home unpaid) after grade 11 summer
Science Bowl (President 12; Treasurer 11; top scorer all four years) grades 9,10,11,12
FIRST Robotics (Vice President 11, 12) 11, 12
Marching Band (Section Leader 11) 9,10,11
Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout; Senior Patrol leader for 6 months; ~150 service hours in high school through Scouts) 9,10,11,12
Track (Varsity 1600m runner 11)
Programming Club 12 (Co-founder; experience with Python).
Genetics Course 3 weeks @Johns Hopkins University through CTY, summer 9</p>

<p>AP/honors courses:
AP Calculus AB (AP test score: 5) grade 11
AP Chemistry (score: 5) 11
Honors English 11
Honors Physics 11
AP European History (score: 5) 10
AP French (score: 5) 10
con’t
Honors Trigonometry 10. Grade 12: AP Biology, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics B, AP Economics (Micro and Macro), AP Literature & Comp.</p>

<p>Science courses:
AP Biology (grade 12) A+
AP Physics B (12) A+
AP Chemistry (11) A,A
Honors Physics (11) A,A
Chemistry (10) A,A
Biology (9) A+,A+</p>

<p>Math courses:
AP Calculus BC (12) A
AP Calculus AB (11) A,A
Honors Precalculus and Trigonometry (10) A,A
Adv. Algebra II (9) A,A
Geometry (8) A,A</p>

<p>Essays: my SIMR essays were a bit better than my essays for other programs. I would say my essays were ‘all right.’ I talked about my research internship last summer, and how I continued researching from home for 2 weeks to get good results; a little about my research interests (which were vague, I must admit); briefly about other qualifications (I’m willing to work hard, i can work with others, as evidenced by xyz, etc.) Overall, my essays were not very personal, which was probably a weakness.
The one exception was the SIMR ‘diversity’ essay, which was quite good.</p>

<p>If you think you might possibly have a shot at any summer program, apply for it, it can’t hurt. That being said, make sure you have backup plans, and apply to LOTS of programs! I was rejected from 5 summer internships before I heard back from SIMR! There is some inherent uncertainty in the selection process; plan accordingly.</p>

<p>That being said, best of luck!</p>

<p>Colleges</p>

<p>Accepted:
Stanford (thats where I’m going)
Caltech
Rice
Duke
UCs (B,LA,SD,D all with regents)
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>Waitlists:
Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Wash U in St. Louis</p>

<p>Rejections:
Yale</p>

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<p>When they ask to list 2 or 3 labs, do they mean to list actual laboratories or research departments?</p>

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I’m a Junior hoping to apply to the City of Hope program this coming summer.</p>

<p>Since they require so few materials, for those of you that were accepted to the first or second round, what do you think made you standout? Particularly, what were your supplementary document uploads?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Does submitting early give you a big advantage? I’m holding on to my app so I can try to squeeze a lot of meaning out of 300 characters. (I like to ramble on so the limit broke my heart)</p>

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<p>Good luck everyone! :slight_smile: Summer programs getting more competitive than college nowadays.</p>

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<p>Do you send reference letters from your teachers with your application?</p>

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<p>I’m applying! Good luck, everyone.</p>

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<p>Does anyone applying know what they mean by what areas of research are most interesting to you? </p>

<p>Do they mean what about research is interesting or what research departments they have? </p>

<p>I’m thinking it’s the former, but I could be wrong.</p>

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<p>And is this the list of all the laboratories? </p>

<p>[City</a> of Hope Research Departments and Divisions](<a href=“http://www.cityofhope.org/research/divisions/Pages/default.aspx]City”>http://www.cityofhope.org/research/divisions/Pages/default.aspx)</p>

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<p>I just submitted my online application. Hope I get make the second cut!</p>

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<p>I submitted my app as well. I don’t expect to be accepted, but it sure looks like a great program!</p>

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<p>yes it is!</p>

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<p>I applied as well, along with Jackson Lab which I just got rejected from… sigh… any ideas of what i can do if i’m not accepted to anywhere?</p>

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<p>What kind of things do you guys talk about during the interview and emails?</p>

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<p>Submitted all of my stuff too. Wishing ourselves luck! Hopefully this one is successful! :D</p>

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<p>Hey guys!!!
I’m doing it too and lets hope everyone on here this year gets in :slight_smile:
I submitted by official transcript via mail and my teacher’s recommandation.
i did not have previous lab experiences and would really like to hear from the previous participants (shadowyam I am going to assume you are Adam He since that was the only intern from China last year?)
Soooooo nervous!!! suppose to be about april 10 and 15… I really hope i get in!!!</p>

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<p>Anyone heard back from them yet?</p>

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<p>2014 applicants? Anyone? </p>