<p>Are there any science programs in California (I'm not willing to travel much, so preferably Bay Area-ish or Northern California) that aren't overly expensive (less than 4K, please) and that rising juniors actually have a chance of getting into? I'm looking at Stanford Earth Sciences and COSMOS right now, but I'm not sure about others.</p>
<p>SIP at UC Santa Cruz might come close to your price point even with housing. <a href=“http://ucsc-sip.org/”>http://ucsc-sip.org/</a> It says it’s mostly for rising seniors, but it sounds like they take some rising juniors.</p>
<p>Young Scholars at UC Davis is about $6K for 6 weeks, so more $$ than you want to spend. <a href=“http://ysp.ucdavis.edu/”>Young Scholars Program - UC Davis School of Education;
<p>SPARC at UCB looks quite difficult to get into, but is free (2 weeks). <a href=“http://sparc-camp.org/”>http://sparc-camp.org/</a></p>
<p>Looks like there are some summer classes for high school students at UCB: <a href=“http://atdp.berkeley.edu/about/sd/”>http://atdp.berkeley.edu/about/sd/</a></p>
<p>I don’t know the chances for rising juniors at these. About half the kids at the RMP program at UCSB were rising juniors this past summer. But, that’s a bit of travel and though it’s about $4K for us locals, it’s about $9K with room and board. I know at least one non-local kid stayed with relatives.</p>
<p>I’ve read good things about COSMOS, of course. The Stanford Earth Sciences thing looks good. I hadn’t heard of it, but we aren’t local.</p>
<p>Good luck! </p>
<p>I know about ATDP (although they mainly offer academic classes), as I was thinking of doing it last year; however, if i’m going to spend that much money on academic classes, I might as well take them at the CC. I want to do SIP next summer, as it’s one of the cheapest research programs I’ve seen (there’s always SIMR, but I don’t particularly like health).</p>
<p>SPARC seems pretty cool, though.</p>