Guys on the undocumented citizens tip: there are undocumented citizen scholars, chill. I’ll contact my girl from cohort 11 to hop on and assist.
@Gracethecat22 The process is super wholistic don’t worry. I’m first gen myself, but there were plenty of scholars who had one or two parents with degrees. This program also accommodates for a completely different experience than your parents may have had in college, so they want to help where your parents may not be able to.
@Ahmeda14960 Rule one: LEDA is not a summer camp. It is not easy, but it is sooooooo fun. It is comprised of the following components: College Guidance (CG), Aspects of Leadership (AOL), Residential Life (RL), and College Writng Instruction (CW). Twice a week you meet with your CG counselor. You develop a plan for college, and you choose 8-12 schools to apply to. There is also a CG class twice a week where we do things like going through the Common App, discussing tricky points in FAFSA, practicing for college interviews, etc. Once a week we visit nearby schools, we went to Yale, UPenn, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Columbia, to name a few. College admissions officers from around the country come to visit us also (Stanford, Harvard, Oberlin, etc). AOL is kind of like a college discussion class. We read about social and political issues, and we come to class and discuss them. It’s so cool since everyone is from all over and we have fun challenging each other’s opinions. RL’s purpose is to get us used to college social life. We stay in a dorm and we have a roommate. Our counsellors arrange fun activities like lip sync battles, foosball tournaments, and movie nights so that we can bond and relax. We work hard and we surely play hard also. When class is over for the day we go to Nassau Street and experience the local culture. RL is all about bringing the cohort together and giving them an experience similar to college life. CW is great too. Each class is about 14 people, and we get awesome writing professors from places like Columbia and Yale. We also have intensive ACT prep. We have class twice a week, and we take the ACT or SAT every Saturday. I left a lot out, but these are the basics.
I applied to LEDA last month when do they let you know if you got in(I just discovered this discussion board.)
Also I have not taken the SAT or ACT will they see me as not proactive
I’m going to warn you guys i ask a lot of questions
@Visionary7 I would say take the next act or sat test because I think the second round requires or call for standardized test scores… Please correct me anyone if am wrong…
Yeah, what’s up with that? When my guidance counselor filled out his form, It had a spot for SAT scores and he put mine in and submitted them. Did this happen with anyone else?
@Ahmeda14960
That’s weird!! mine didn’t have a spot for that information. I was told that we would update this information if we made it to the next round!!! @-)
If someone gets into the LEDA program does that mean you have a good chance of getting into Princeton when you apply to college
@Visionary7 their website shows that out of Cohort 10, most of those who got into the Ivy league got into Princeton, with 18 gaining admission to Princeton and 23 getting into other Ivies ( Quite possibly some of the same people) . While I definitely think that Princeton thinks highly of this program because they sponsor it, Don’t think that Princeton will give you a major pass if you aren’t up to Par academically with regular applicants. It’ll definitely help, but it wont hold any guarantees, other wise a lot more than 18 out of the 100 would get into Princeton.
During the summer program what do you do during down time
@Visionary7 when I applied, I did not take the SAT/ACT, but taking the next test available couldn’t hurt. Like @gwayne22 said, when next round comes along, that score could help you out. Also @Ahmeda14960 is right. LEDA is very prestigious and Princeton, along with other competitive schools, consider it a plus in the application process. It does not guarantee admission
When do you think we’ll know whether or not we passed Round 1?
@lycheeseeds Leda sent me an email before break and they told me that we should hear back by February. Keep in mind that this process is on a rolling basis so some of your peers might get back word before you do. FINGERS CROSSED!!! [-O<
AND again good luck to everyone that applied!!!
Does anyone know the things that LEDA consider the most when reviewing applications
@Visionary7 The reviewing process is holistic and they look at everything. I would say that there isn’t a specific area that holds more importance than others. I hope you spent equal amount of time on every area as they all count!!! :-B
@happyslappy
Sorry for the double post but I have question…
Does it matter how many standardised test we have take?? I took both the ACT and PSAT… would I have to use both or just the best one??
:-S
@Visionary7 I’m going to be honest, there wasn’t very much downtime. Class was released, on the weekdays, around 5 and even after that, we would attend admission rep presentations, and we would have a meeting with our college guidance counselor and our writing instructor twice a week. But, outside of that we did a lot of hanging out. There are plenty of lounge spaces, and study spaces where you could get a group of friends and just enjoy each other’s company. In building curfew was at nine, and in room curfew was at eleven (weekdays). We were able to explore the city a little, and we often took trips to Nassau Street to experienced local culture. Some musically talented kids would sit around the piano and jam. We also had a couple of video game, foosball, and pool tournaments. Princeton also has a cool art museum. Basically, the little free time we had, we had plenty of options and ways to relax/bond.
@gwayne22 submit what you feel confident with. But, scores aren’t everything. If you feel good about both submit both, if you don’t feel great about either of them don’t worry about it. One of my fellow scholars submitted a really low PSAT score, but LEDA doesn’t really take that into account. My friend SLAYED the actual SAT after the prep, LEDA looks for the potential to succeed, not necessarily where you start