<p>Hi, I am wandering if going to People to People Future Leader Summit will enhance my chance of getting into a top Ivy.</p>
<p>What is it? Did you get something in the mail saying that you have been selected to attend provided you pay $? There is a whole industry built around selling programs to high school students who want to go to Harvard. It is very important to use your summers wisely, however. This could be an excellent program, but think of value for the buck.</p>
<p>Ya, its 2000. But have anyone heard of this program?</p>
<p>It won't help your chances. It is an expensive travel program for well to do students. You can do it for fun, but it won't help you at all.</p>
<p>"It won't help your chances. It is an expensive travel program for well to do students. You can do it for fun, but it won't help you at all."</p>
<p>yep.</p>
<p>i agree...take a course at a local college. i did it.</p>
<p>Do you guys know about this program, or are you just assuming its a welltodo ppl summer camp?</p>
<p>Everyone and their mother gets nominated. Programs like that only care about making money, and there is no prestige attached.</p>
<p>However, if you can afford it and have time, you should go, just because it will make you a better person.</p>
<p>i<code>ve heard that people to people is kind of like a scam. you shouldn</code>t have to pay money to volunteer for programs like that. your expenses should be solely based on transportation, room&board, and other misc. stuff.</p>
<p>I went a couple years ago. It was a good experience but I wouldn't go just to put something on your college app. For personal fulfillment, sure.</p>
<p>Any other comments from anyone?</p>
<p>Instead of People-to-People, spend that $2,000 helping the homeless, tutoring the underprivileged, etc. and write about your experience in one of your personal essays. Adcoms will be much more impressed!</p>
<p>...i went a couple of years ago to Hopkins for P2P...I had fun, but most of it was sort of just a waste of money; If I could do it again, i probably would...mostly becuase I got to hear this awesome adcom guy tell us what they look for all around...</p>
<p>the program itself, though---no</p>
<p>they invited me to Antarctica over last christmas.....provided I pay like 7 grand in addition to travel to the southern tip of south america</p>
<p>I wonder how a fluff trip to Mc Murdo Sound would ever impress an adcom. It goes right next to how you deserve to go to their college because you vacationed in Paris last summer. Sounds like fun, though.</p>
<p>So this doesn't help with admissions? Is this camp even competitive or just first come first serve basis</p>
<p>first come, first serve</p>
<p>the only way it could help in college admissions is if you apply for the scholarship they offer (for like 2 participants for each session) and get it. Otherwise, no, this in no way helps on college apps. However, it does help to explore different career options.</p>
<p>It is not a good idea to write your essay about the wonderful learning experience you had touring Europe with your parents over the summer. However, I would not make a blanket statement that programs like People to People do not help with admissions. It is just that other, and probably better and much cheaper, alternatives exist.</p>
<p>try something a little more constructive if ur into travel like that, I went on an AFS exchange trip to Ecuador, and it was one of the best experiences of my life</p>
<p>I found student exchange programs to be really expensive and that is why I had to do my own thing. You can read about my story, my non-profit organization and the trip I am putting together here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toguatemalawithlove.org%5B/url%5D">www.toguatemalawithlove.org</a></p>
<p>So overall, this camp sucks and doesnt help rite?</p>