<p>I will turn in my application soon.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t help at all. (Honest answer)</p>
<p>I’d have to agree; it’s about you getting to know Stanford, not a chance to impress the admission officers (you won’t be meeting them)</p>
<p>Yea, it really doesn’t help. I went to the camp 2 summers ago and that was one of the first things they told us. Still it was a fun experience!</p>
<p>No. I know you want to believe otherwise. But no.</p>
<p>Colleges like to see you spend your summers wisely. They aren’t going to take into account if you attended THEIR summer camp, but when compared to doing nothing, it will increase your chances at ANY college.</p>
<p>The way I see it is if it’s competitive to get in and you do get in, that means you’re proving to yourself that you’re a competitve applicant for when the real thing comes. However, those things are based highly on the amount of money you and your parents have. Isn’t the Stanford summer program around 10 grand? The poorer kids wouldn’t have as much a chance to go to the programs as some people so Stanford probably wouldn’t use it too much as an indicator of whether or not you should get accepted. Those programs are a really good opportunity though and you can always write about them in your short answers! :)</p>
<p>it’s usually 15-20% from HSSC. but it’s a self-selecting group that goes, and it’s a self-selecting group that applies.</p>
<p>Well, it would never hurt you unless you get caught doing something illegal and get kicked out of the program or flunk out of classes. You go there to have fun and discover new subjects beyond your high school’s curriculum, so it shows a lot of initiative. Remember colleges use your test scores and high school transcript to evaluate if you are capable of college-level work. If you do not excel on the those, getting a high GPA here may indicate your capability. That’s what I think personally.</p>
<p>this guy i know did that last summer and got in early, but he was also a double legacy and hella smart. he said a lot of people who did the same program were rejected or got deferred… so i’m not sure. i don’t think it helps a lot</p>
<p>it wont hurt but it wont Help.</p>
<p>i went to EPGY and almost went to summer college, so it gave me something to talk about in my why stanford essay but im 100% sure that going in itself did not help at all</p>