I haven’t applied yet but would like to. I’m a little discouraged about how expensive the program is. I live in the Bay Area, so if I get into UCB, I think I would much rather commute to the uni than live there. Because it’s rolling admissions, should I apply ASAP? I still have to finish my application for another program, but seeing as there’s only free response question for Rosetta, I think I can manage both.
Like most other users on this thread, I would like to hear from others who’ve attended this program and can share some insight!
Did you end up attending the program at Berkeley ? My daughter was accepted but like you know not much is written up on it. I need to make sure it is safe, fun and educational. Can you offer advice, please? Or anyone?
I attended Neuro at UC Berkeley last summer; I was pretty worried about the lack of info about the program online before the program started as well, but everything turned out well and I had a great experience. As for the program, it’s half lecture, half lab - lecture depends on what workshop you’re in obviously, but was pretty interesting. The material covered was pretty flexible; we went over basically what’s on the curriculum (that you can find online on the Rosetta Institute website) and more if we had any other questions about anything neuroscience related. The professor who taught us (it was Dr. Janell Richardson for UCB Neuro last year) was very knowledgable and I learned a lot from her. The labs aren’t specific to Neuro (I think all workshops had the same labs) - we had labs on pipetting, flow cytometry, PCR, etc. and those were also pretty cool. The program’s only 2 weeks so there’s not much research involved, but in the “last” (2nd) week of the program we worked on a journal article project in which we selected a PubMed article of our choice on a neuro topic we found interesting, and did a presentation on that paper and proposed any further avenues of research related to that paper. (Cancer workshop did something slightly different though - you can see the specifics of those on the website).
Outside of the educational part of the program (which was from 9AM-5PM every weekday, with lunch breaks), we basically had free time from 5PM - curfew every day; sometimes they organized activities for us, but most times we (my group of friends and I) went out into the area around Berkeley and explored; it was really fun. Except for morning Saturday and afternoon Sunday (if I’m remembering correctly), weekends are free as well, and I remember one weekend the program organized a trip to San Francisco for all the students.
Also, after the program concludes, I think there’s usually research opportunities for former students either in lab at the Rosetta Institute or bioinformatics research opportunities at home by computer, so that’s also a plus.
The program being only 2 weeks definitely limits the program in terms of research ops and more learning opportunities, but to give it some credit, I definitely learned a lot in those 2 weeks and overall really enjoyed my experience there!!
@browniebunny Do you have any idea of what the grade distribution was like? And how valuable would you say is the program for someone who is taking AP Biology and AP Psychology and applying to the Neuroscience institute (basically, I have pretty good knowledge on genetics and neurological disorders, but not so much on application of my knowledge outside of textbook concepts or on molecular biology and biomedicine)?
My son, a rising senior is attending it this summer- June5-18, 2016 in Berkeley. To get real benefit out of this, I believe the camper should be rising senior or at least rising junior.
OMG! How have I not heard of this?! I absolutely love molecular/cellular biology and genetics, and I can’t believe that there is a summer program for it! I will have to apply next year! I’m planning on joining several science-related extra curriculars once I start 9th grade next year, so maybe that in conjunction with good grades will boost my chances of getting in. It’s expensive, so I’ll have to start saving and/or tell my parents about it now so that the tuition could be my Christmas/birthday/etc gift. How awesome that you got a scholarship to it! Congrats!
Reporting back in… DD went to the one at UCSD for immunology. She was a rising junior in preIB, and very interested in science. Rosetta had three programs at UCSD running - immunology, oncology, and another one that escapes me. The organization of the program was excellent, the campus beautiful, the accomodations very pleasant, and the students really terrific. However, she was not super impressed with the academic rigor of immunology. She said that the other two sections were much better: the teacher of immunology is the coordinator, and I think he is more of a researcher than a teacher. He asked for honest feedback, and we gave him lots of constructive criticism. DD would recommend the other sections - just not the one taught by him at this time.
Really bringing this thread back to life. Can anyone tell me the exact or more in depth curriculum of the Cancer workshop. Also, is the research done fairly worthwhile or just a statement. Also, what ECs/ courses should you have?
Can any who attended last year share their experience. My daughter got accepted to the UCB cancer workshop group. She will be commuting. We live in the bay area.
Hi,
Did your daughter attend the summer camp at Rosetta Institute? Was it safe? Worth it? We are trying to decide whether or not to send our child. Any information would be helpful.
Thank you!