<p>I took Stanford's High School Summer College this past summer and I'm wondering if it'll help or hurt me to mention it on my apps to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, WashU, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke</p>
<p>On one hand, it would look good that I've taken challening college courses, but it also might send the obvious message that they're not my first choice school.</p>
<p>btw, I was just deferred from Stanford EA</p>
<p>Won't hurt at all. Definitely mention it.</p>
<p>No problem. Most people participate in summer programs near home.</p>
<p>actually, I'm from Kansas and I did the summer program at Stanford mainly because it was my #1 choice</p>
<p>i spent a few weeks at brown and spent some time talking about it on my H interview and still got in</p>
<p>But in applying SCEA, they knew that they were your first choice, not Brown.</p>
<p>Talk about the Stanford program, but don't mention that it's because it is your first choice ;)</p>
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On one hand, it would look good that I've taken challening college courses, but it also might send the obvious message that they're not my first choice school.
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As other people have mentioned, most of the time people do not go to summer programs at their first choice schools. They go to one that has a particular program or is close to home or inexpensive or whatever. Do not let a school know that it is not your first choice.</p>
<p>No, I think the school is more concerned with the fact that you're actually taking summer classes than it is with where you take them. If you don't take classes at Harvard, and take them at Stanford instead, Harvard won't take that as an insult. They won't judge you for that. Even if they did, it'd be unfair to judge you for a summer program that you applied to as a junior, when your opinions of schools were presumably different.</p>
<p>thanks, that really makes sense</p>
<p>i guess i'll have to send transcripts from it too, since they were college courses. actually i got two B+'s but those were pretty hard math classes.</p>