<p>Curious as to whether the way in which a high-schooler spends his/her summer vacation appears to have any bearing whatever on Ivy League acceptances. Did all of you do amazing things during your summers or did you reacquaint with your inner child?</p>
<p>Worked at a Golf Course,
Volunteered as a youth football coach.
Earned awards at high school football camps.</p>
<p>Slept.</p>
<p>Pretty much it.</p>
<p>I don't know if it had that much bearing.....I was deferred and spent the summers swimming (more than 30 hours per week, and meets on most weekends) and doing painting commissions (including ones in England & Germany) and art-related community service projects.</p>
<p>2003: Competed in the final level (National) of the Young Marine of the Year Contest
Attended the Military Order of World Wars Youth Leadership Conference (St. John's College/Naval Academy)
Attended the Junior State of America (JSA) Summer School at Stanford University</p>
<p>2004: Attended the Leadership in Free Enterprise conference at Baylor University
Went to my Young Marine unit's regimental encapment
Attended the University of Texas-Austin's Honors Colloquium</p>
<p>Summer 2005 is just going to be downright dull in comparison. I have to get a full-time job :(</p>
<p>Summer before junior year: attended All Girls All Math Camp in Lincoln Nebraska for a week, then two days after I got home attended Concordia Language Villages (German) for a month. It was busy.</p>
<p>Summer before senior year: Took a math class at the U of M and learned how to row.</p>
<p>hmmm</p>
<p>junior-> slept, played golf, worked a little, took pictures of squirrels, vacationed, read books</p>
<p>senior-> took a calculus course at a community college, slept, worked at a baseball stadium, read some more</p>
<p>nothing really spectacular, but my actual essay thing was pretty witty</p>
<p>2003: Governor's school
2004: Girls State, Hospital volunteering, work</p>
<p>2003: Music Camp in North Carolina
Working
Volunteering at Hospital, Science Center</p>
<p>2004: Liberal Arts College Experience Type of Camp
Boys State
Volunteering/Working</p>
<p>2003:
Shad Valley Program at the University of British Columbia
1 month work term at IBM Canada in Toronto</p>
<p>2004:
4 weeks in Bangkok Thailand with Father Joe's Mercy Centre
3 week Biology credit course in Singapore</p>
<p>2005:
Rowing somewhere, either on the Canadian summer circuit or for Canada in CanAmMex</p>
<p>LOTS -- I'm going to guess that you could write something pretty witty about those squirrel pix.</p>
<p>Kebree and Phil -- nice to see you! Hope you had a good holiday. Phil, I think you deserve a summer of just R&R after the ones you described here!</p>
<p>I asked the question on the H,Y and Penn boards as well as here. No real pattern that I can see, so I'm not sure how relevant it is, beyond being able to report some sort of activity that doesn't involve being behind bars.</p>
<p>my summers are lame. i pretty much have diving practice everyday 9am-4pm and travel to a different place for competitions every weekend. and that's what i put. i also put i see movies and hangout with friends and spend quality time with family.</p>
<p>so my answer was pretty lame and i got accepted, who knows what its bearing was on admissions</p>
<p>2003: went to paris for two weeks, stayed in an apartment, took ballet classes
had a role created on me by nationally recognized choreographer Julia Adam in her new "Midsummer Night's Dream"
2004: took a one-week course on Melville and Whitman at Barnard
attended Boston Ballet's Summer Dance Program for five weeks</p>
<p>hey, dizzymom! Hope you, dizzyson, and the rest of the dizzyfamily had a great holiday season. And while I wish I could get that summer off, I'll be working from the end of school through the start of college...so now resty-resty for me! :D <----that's the caffeine-induced smile</p>
<p>2002: Played with robots at Swiss National Expo
2003: Stayed at home, practiced piano, learnt number theory for IB EE. </p>
<p>Easily the least interesting of the lot.</p>
<p>I participated in a month long business program a Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Before that I did Natioanl Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine in 2003.</p>
<p>i toured europe one summer and worked in a fin. aid office at a university during the next</p>