<p>UPDATE: Narrowed down my choices to UCSB mentorship program and the UPENN Nanotechonlogy precollege program
( <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/saast/nanotechnology.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.seas.upenn.edu/saast/nanotechnology.html</a> ) ... I tend to think that the UCSB mentorship program will be more beneficial! </p>
<p>Oh well... gonna find a tutor near UPENN or UCSB to teach me Precalc ( online classes in GRAPHING would make it a little hard for me to understand )</p>
<p>I read a post somewhere on this forum that requesting a Professor at a university to help him in his research would help the most... Is ths true? Also, with no prior experience in research and having a math background of only Algebra II ( with trignometry ) and a science background of a Physics course ( have also done Biology and Chemistry in 9th grade and 10th grade but since my previous school followed the Indian board which is kinda like the British System, it was only 1/2 of the full science curriculum which I would have completed in the remaining 2 years of high school had I stayed back in the same school ) , do you guys think I would be able to help the professor in any way?</p>