<p>Is this a good summer program ? It seems to be a intership , is it ?</p>
<p>It’s a scam. Kind of.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for whatever help you find yourself able to give. My predicament is as follows: I’ve normally been a perfect student, to be brief, but at the beginning of my secomd semester, I’ve been diagnosed with insomnia… Joy (writing this past midnight). So my math grade has dropped, terribly. This is undoubtedly my last year to be accepted to anything worthwhile, in the way of summer programs. Regardless of my “career aspirations” I need to weight my college application. I’ve been accepted to Summer@Brown and invited to the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, and I’m unsure which to attend. Which carries more weight with admission officers? I know Summer@Brown is an open-application-type program, and NYLFM is invitation only, and in the past 10 years, 8 students from my school have attended, some of them valedictorians, and all of them notable. NYLFM also gives college credit at George Mason, while Summer@Brown does not give any college credit. NYLFM seems like the more prestigious program all in all, but I’m unsure, as Summer@Brown is still an Ivy Lrague summer program. So if you could give me ANY inkling of information about what looks better to colleges, it’d greatly behoove me, I need to choose ASAP, by Sunday, unfortunately. Thank you all, for any help that might come(:</p>
<p>FYI, anyone can get into NYLF. All you have to do is shell out the money and you can go. </p>
<p>They advertise that they “invite” you, making it appear as if you’ve actually done anything, but in reality, they send it to pretty much every kid out there. </p>
<p>My English teacher can literally put anyone’s name on the list and they’ll get a letter from them in the mail a couple of weeks later.</p>
<p>Also, if you did a Google search or searched CC for similar threads on NYLF, there have been an overwhelming amount of posters who say that it is not worth it.</p>