<p>So I'm a sophomore currently and it's almost summer. I want to go to go somewhere important in the summer that is both educative and helpful for my college admission. I want to go to an ivy league college, and for a major either law or engineering (I should lower this down, but I don't know which one yet). Can someone give me a recommendation for what to do?</p>
<p>Not all Ivy League university (by which I assume you mean Top 20 universities and LACs…) offer engineering and law is a graduate program for which you prepare with any major but often history, philosophy, political science, even English or Classics.
In addition, these colleges are crapshoots, so you’d be better off thinking about your safeties and especially finding colleges you like, can afford, and are pretty sure you can get into (ie., more than 30% selectivity and your stats are near or above the top 25%).
What are your stats? How much can your parents afford? Have you run the Net Price Calculators on some colleges?
Why “the ivy league”? Just because you’ve heard of them? If so, you need to read about the top 20-25 universities and LACs, to start with. Then, start reading the Fiske Guide or the insider’s guide to the colleges or The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges.</p>
<p>What do you mean by “I want to go somewhere important in the summer”?</p>
<p>Well aren’t you just the stereotype that plagues this website?</p>
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<li>Find 2-3 things to be passionate in and go HAM on them, perhaps this summer could be a good time to explore.</li>
<li>Ivy leagues aren’t exactly premier engineering schools bar perhaps a couple of them, and even then, they are beat by MIT-esque universities.</li>
<li>Going somewhere “important” is really neither a coherent statement nor a priority you should have. Go somewhere that you can enjoy going to and that you feel will develop you as a person. </li>
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<p>Actually the main reason is because I admired these colleges since Harvard and Columbia gave me dire surgeries that weren’t able to be fixed by other doctors. I don’t want to be a doctor, but I do want to go to these places, mainly out of admiration. Also I’ve seen the colleges.</p>
<p>And I just wanted to see what would be good to do during the summer for preparation.</p>
<p>Spend your summer doing something you’re passionate about, that will teach you something/make you grow. Work at a food pantry or with Habitat for Humanity. Go visit cousins and discover their region. Learn how to fix a car or become a marbles champion. 
I am not kidding: there’s no standardized answer. Anything standardized is the opposite of what you want.
It needs to come from you and be something you’re really into, personally.</p>
<p>Your explanation works for Harvard and Columbia. So they’d be your dream schools. To get in, you’d need to be extraordinary in some way. Even if you’re extraordinary, your odds are one in twenty (statistically).
You still need to find other colleges (2 safeties, 3-5 matches.)</p>