<p>See above. Does being a CTY student and attending their programs actually help on the Johns Hopkins application? If so, how much if you already have pretty good grades/sat's. . . or if you don't? Thanks :)</p>
<p>It doesn't quite hurt and doesn't quite help.</p>
<p>You DO know that JHU CTY is headed by high school teachers, not professors from JHU? That JHU has no hand in the program? Same goes for UPenn and Cornell pre-college programs, those at Brown, Columbia, Harvard SSP, etc etc. The list goes on forever. </p>
<p>Thus, attending a pre-college program at a college that you will apply to will not give you a considerable edge; it will only show admissions that you did something useful over the summer - taking classes. It also shows that you have money to attend those programs (most of the time, unless you're on financial aid), because those programs cost thousands at least.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Thanks paco. :)</p>
<p>It really comes down to being accepted to prestigious/no pay summer programs then.</p>
<p>Edit: I'm also thinking that I might be good in a sense, at least more than being neutral, not only because you're doing something useful, but you're challenging yourself in a sense. I mean, I live in rural Va, no one here has ever heard of these courses, so even though my school didn't accept the credit, I'm just hoping that colleges will see that it was difficult and I was essentially taking that extra step towards learning. Although I did the courses out of genuine interest, way before I found collegeconfidential, not just a "hey this will look good on apps" thing =)</p>
<p>Actually, that's not quite true about only high school teachers leading the classes. My daughter has had classes taught by a MD/PHD candidate at Georgetown, a university drama professor and a Princeton professor. She's taken a total of five courses and while two of them were led by high school teachers, one of them had a Ph.D. JHU takes a very active interest in this program.</p>
<p>My CTY courses were headed by actual professors at Holy Cross and Boston College. Now high school teacher in sight.</p>
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Both my CTY teachers were professors and JHU was definitally involved because they offered credit for the course I took last year.</p>
<p>I'd imagine that CTY involvement has SOME effect on admissions because JHU asks whether you participated in its application.</p>