EPGY Email?

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<p>Hey, I'm a junior in Australia and I need some help. See, I was fishing through my email today and I stumbled upon this weird thing from <a href="mailto:epgy-invite@epgy.stanford.edu">epgy-invite@epgy.stanford.edu</a></p>

<p>Summer at Stanford University
Dear Joshua Davis,</p>

<p>Since 1992, Stanford University鈥檚 Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) has been fostering the intellectual development of highly able students by delivering innovative and challenging academic programs through its residential and online courses.</p>

<p>This year, Stanford University will again select the finest middle-school and high-school students from across the country and around the world for three-to-four week intensive courses on the Stanford campus. Designed for highly motivated students, the Summer Institutes provide an opportunity for intensive study in a single subject with instructors and peers who share enthusiasm for course topics such as: biotechnology, business, computer science, creative and expository writing, economics, engineering, humanities, legal studies, mathematics, philosophy and physics.</p>

<p>Summer Institutes 2009 will also feature programs in Beijing and London 鈥?providing an opportunity for intensive academic study combined with cultural exploration.</p>

<p>Visit the EPGY website: Stanford</a> University EPGY Invited Students to apply or to learn more. Admission is competitive.</p>

<p>Yours,
Raymond Ravaglia
Deputy Director
Stanford University EPGY</p>

<p>p.s. You received this message though the College Board Student Selective Search. To remove your name from future e-mails from EPGY, please use our request page.</p>

<p>What does that email mean? Could anyone elucidate this for me? All I've done is take the SAT this January and do decently. (2240... Urgh, could have higher.)</p>

<p>Am I invited to attend this thing? And what is EPGY anyway? Help?</p>

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<p>@^^</p>

<p>Well man U have been invited by the Stanford University for their summer program. You are required to follow their application procedure as it is. You will have to do the same as other applicants. Its just that Stanford is trying to create an awareness among the students of the World about their Summer Program.</p>

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<p>I got into this one last year, but was too late for visa etc…hurry!</p>

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<p>MindHunter, so does this invitation actually mean anything then? Does it mean that I have greater chance of being admitted into this program than people who haven’t received this email? And what will I have to submit?</p>

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<p>The e-mail doesn’t mean anything. They just bought a few thousand names from Collegeboard, e.g. juniors and younger living overseas with SAT scores above 2100, and sent a mass e-mail to those. If you apply, no one will care that you got that e-mail.</p>

<p>I am sure Stanford’s summer program is fun if you can afford it. Personally, I wouldn’t have the money to go. Participating will NOT increase your chances of getting into Stanford or another top university. Go for the intellectual challenge if you like, but don’t expect if to pay off in some other way.</p>

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<p>@ Solaceon</p>

<p>ya man, B@r!um is right. You and thos who did not recieve any such email will be dealt on equal grounds and there will be no preference to you on the account that you recieved an inviation via email. about the requirements or submitting stuff, you may check out their website and find out the procedure to apply.
I hope it helps.</p>

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<p>Nice try, Raymond…a perfect way to attract international capital:)</p>

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<p>EPGY is quite a popular program among international high school students… Try searching this forum. I bet there are lots of threads on the summer program.</p>