<p>Im a sophomore in high school right now and havent really been thinking about college TOO much. However, within the next month I will need to decide what I will be doing next summer (the summer in between sophomore and junior year). And, apparently, colleges are interested to see what I do during this summer and the following summer.</p>
<p>My main interest is social entrepreneurship and social economics. I have been EXTREMELY involved with a non-profit NGO that helps educate the underprivileged in India which is how I developed my interest in social entrepreneurship and social economics. Because I want to go into this sector, I thought it would be nice if I could do something related to it during this summer. I have an opportunity open to work (when I say work Im talking about what would be equivalent of doing research in the sciences) with a professor of social entrepreneurship at a university thats one hour away from me. However, this college isnt ranked too high To give you an idea, based on the Princeton Reviews best 301 business schools, it has an Academic Experience rating of 70.</p>
<p>The main reason I am addressing this issue is because I am ultimately aiming for Harvard, Williams, Yale, Dartmouth, and Princeton. Do these colleges care about the caliber of the college that I worked with the professor at? So will working with this professor and most probably eventually publishing a paper on what I found out/did not be impressive to these schools? Or do the colleges simply care that I immersed myself into the subject that I will be eventually studying and completed some significant work?</p>
<p>Would these colleges view working with a social economics professor from say, Harvard differently than working with a professor of social economics at a not-so-high-ranked school?</p>
<p>From what I hear, it seems that it is best for me to do a lot of things related to social entrepreneurship so that I can portray myself to colleges as someone really interested in the subject (I genuinely am!).</p>
<p>Also, service (specifically the one w/ the NGO mentioned above) is my main EC (even though I have other things like ABRSM piano, etc ), which also shows my interest in the social side of economics and entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>So, the bottom line: Will the colleges I mentioned earlier find working with this professor very IMPRESSIVE AND UNIQUE (Im assuming not many kids do this type of thing in the non-sciences fields)? Or will they just consider it as Oh, just another kid who did a research sort of thing. Would they consider this more impressive than doing programs such as EPGY/CTY?</p>
<p>Oh, and sorry for the long post!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>