National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Leaders for our Summer Congress in Boston, Massachusetts, June 24-26. It costs $985 for 3 day conference and around $1600 with hotel costs. I promised a friend of mine I would check it out on this forum. With the wealth of information everyone has on CC I know I would get the real scoop. Thanks everyone.
Resume fluffer. There was a thread recently on a similar program by the same people. My D received the invitation also.
Thanks!
I am personally against those programs because they try to pass for something more than they are. If I wanted to spend money I would choose a camp that my child likes and they are straight forward on what they are. No “nominations” and all that fancy mailings like they are wedding invitations. There are wonderful camps out there with any possible focus and some are even cheaper.
google it or search it on this site. I’m a strident voice against this for-profit company and its many iterations (future scientists, future leaders, etc. – all with the same slick marketing and structure) that prey on desperate kids and parents.
Ask yourself, do you really think a med school will care that someone spent a few days attending something like this while they were in high school?
The excessive pricing, over the top marketing hype and very deliberately misleading statements about what a great honor it is to receive their invitation is indeed predatory and I would have nothing to do with them. They are selling this as a high status activity which it simply is not. And there are plenty of opportunities for students interested in medicine to attend research lectures for free at their local state research U, take moocs online, volunteer in hospitals or other health care settings, learn CPR, etc.
I wouldn’t even call it a resume fluffer: if I saw that on a resume, my first reaction would be “a sucker who falls for a scam” and I wouldn’t give the application a further look.