<p>hi folks, '11 here. I made a new screen name to remain anonymous (the combination of my other posts and this would make it pretty easy to figure out who i am).</p>
<p>anywho, this program is absolutely incredible. Definitely take the application seriously, it is not one of those “pay to get in” type programs. Admissions is tough: from casual research of ED/EA decisions (done before dartmouth, harvard, yale, brown or princeton responded: 11 got in to penn, 4 to Colombia/Cornell. Not sure about other ivies, Stanford, MIT, or other good biz programs like UVa or UMich but my sense is that ~90% of alums will be headed to these types of schools.</p>
<p>Point is, the people who get in are smart and applied. This makes for an awesome experience. message me with any questions, I’m glad to talk to all!</p>
<p>@futurebizmajor - I wrote my essay in about 298 words and decided not to risk going over 300. You may be able to go a little over but I wouldn’t go over the 300-word limit by too much.</p>
<p>Thanks insomniac! From reading past forums it seems like a lot of people got their decisions back before April… When did those of you who attended last summer get your acceptance letters?</p>
<p>I wholeheartedly agree with elbeedubbalum, every single student I met at LBW was smart and sometimes these schools can be crapshoots, but all of them will end up at great schools NOT because they attended LBW but because they were motivated and intelligent students. If any of you have questions regarding LBW admissions, the overall experience, or anything else, PM me and I’d be more than happy to help you guys!</p>
<p>If people are interested, my rough count for East gives: 14 Penn, 1 Harvard, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT. Though of course the real numbers are probably higher since I don’t know about everyone.</p>
<p>Anyone know how good the financial aid is? They say its limited, but that doesn’t really give me a good estimate. My family can’t afford the $5,000+ cost, but I would still like to apply.</p>
<p>There were also quite a few USC, U Mich and UVA acceptances from the east.</p>
<p>@alb1995: finaid is pretty generous at LBW…I met many kids there who got quite a bit of financial assistance and I myself got a little bit. If you have any questions about finaid, PM me! Still apply to LBW/finaid, even if you think you won’t be able to afford the sticker price.</p>
<p>@luvhingit
If you have them already, you might as well submit it. Looking at last year’s thread the applicants have some pretty high scores ranging from 2100 to nearly perfect scores.</p>
<p>I have an SAT score from December and it was pretty good, and I also took the Jan one so waiting for that to come out and see which ones better before i send them in.</p>
<p>ALSO, does anyone know if they are looking for just one SAT test or do they look at superscores on the SATs? (superscore = where they take the best scores from each of the 3 sections you have taken from different tests and combine them)</p>
<p>and @rlaqaud, i m right there with you buddy, being trying to start on that essay for a while, never got it yet. I m promising myself i will finish it by this week.</p>
<p>I don’t think LBW has an official policy about superscoring or not. It can’t hurt if you send in both test dates… And, I’d encourage sending in SAT scores, unless they’re really bad or something…</p>
<p>As for resumes, I’m not sure exactly how helpful that will be. Sure, there were some people with amazing scores and grades and some who had helped find awesome companies. But I think by and large most of just were pretty normal high school kids, though perhaps more motivated and intelligent than average.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot to the alums for taking the time to answer questions. A few more…</p>
<p>1) Any advantages/disadvantages/differences in the west vs east locations besides the obvious difference in geography?</p>
<p>2) I believe I read that the west location participants are housed in “a nearby university” or something like that, where would this be and how were the accomodations? How were the dorms at Penn?</p>
<p>3) How is the work load vs free time? Are participants treated like incoming college students re their personal responsibility or are their a lot of “camp-like” rules/curfews/restrictions? Were participants able to explore Philly or S.F. on their own?</p>
<p>Thanks for any additional information you can provide.</p>
<p>hey guy, do you know if the activitie you are involved in need to be current activities? or could they be activities you have done and contributed greatly to in the past?</p>
<p>East and West both, for the most part, have the same activities planned and similar lectures. There are really no advantages to attending one campus over the other, especially in college admissions, and one isn’t easier to get into. I went to East and met some pretty talented, intelligent, and accomplished individuals, and after meeting those from West, I noticed that they were just like us.</p>
<p>West is housed at San Francisco State University. I can’t answer for the West people, but Penn dorms were alright. The campus was so nice and there was always so much to do that we didn’t let the few negatives of the dorms bother us too much. They’re not the best dorms out there, but it could have been much, much worse.</p>
<p>The work load isn’t too bad. There are usually about four lectures each day (and you can look at our schedules on the LBW website to see specifics), and we just had a little bit to do to prepare for them. Some of them involved heavy reading, but time management was never an issue for most of us. There’s plenty of free time, although most of it is also scheduled for us since the RTAs plan fun activities for us during off time. The business plan competition also takes up time, but its manageable. We do have a lot of rules/restrictions, but they’re reasonable and understandable. We had a curfew every night, but as long as everyone obeys all of the rules and is punctual, you shouldn’t have an issue with outrageously early curfews. We couldn’t explore Philly on our own…we were given boundaries and rules about that. However, a lot of activities planned for you explore Philly; you’re just with the entire group instead.</p>