<p>Have acceptance from:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stanford EPGY</li>
<li>Iowa SSTP</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon AP/EA</li>
<li>Columbia - HS Summer program</li>
</ul>
<p>Am interested in a top-tier engineering college after high school. Which one should I go for?</p>
<p>Thx.</p>
<p>I learned your stats from another thread. If you just want to take a summer class, that’s another story. Otherwise, you should go to a one better EPGY. I am not familiar with the rest of 3 though.</p>
<p>correction: you should go to a one better than EPGY</p>
<p>SSTP. Research is important if you’re going into the sciences.</p>
<p>The other three programs are more general, more like just learning the basic knowledge but not much of the hands-on, in-depth stuff you can do at SSTP. Also, at SSTP you get a mentor who’s a university professor or a grad student, who will guide you through your own project. Meanwhile, at the other three programs, you might be in a class with 19 or more other kids, just another face in the crowd.</p>
<p>EPGY seems like a really high price program.</p>