<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I'm currently a freshman in high school and am contemplating my choices for summer programs. I'm interested in attending a biology cluster at UC Irvine's COSMOS program, finally got around to it tonight, and finished the application.</p>
<p>However...</p>
<p>COSMOS is 4 week residential program, spanning June 26-July 23.
That gets in the way of summer classes because it runs smack right into the halfway point for most. I was planning on taking Chemistry to help prep for Chem Honors next year, a Pre-Calc & expository writing course somewhere (wasn't sure where, though // any suggestions, let me know! )</p>
<p>However, COSMOS came along and announced its dates, which totally throws off my prep-for-next-years-classes plan. </p>
<p>This being said, I am not a science junkie. Well, I wasn't up until late last year. I was originally planning on taking the law track to college and eventually working in government. But I self taught biology over the summer and found it super interesting, and thought I should explore research/science fair/competition/internship opportunities. </p>
<p>I don't know if I should risk throwing away all my prep for next year plans and apply (and hopefully) to attend COSMOS, or just not apply and take all my classroom summer school classes. If I don't apply this year, I can try again next year (when I may be more involved with science ECs) because I am not super duper qualified for admission because of the ECs- I don't have any previous science fair participation points, awards, etc.</p>
<p>Right now I'm really wishy-washy because I'm torn between deciding a path with law or science... if I knew for sure I wanted to pursue law NO MATTER WHAT, I probably wouldn't attend COSMOS. </p>
<p>Sorry for long post, thanks for reading it though!
Hope you have some opinions/insight for me, thanks again !</p>