<p>It really doesn’t help you if it is a paid program anyway… all it says is that your parents can pay for you to go to a summer program! The island location does limit you… do you have any opportunities to volunteer or get a summer job? Or develop a hobby (if it is not too late) – one of my kids leveraged her entomology hobby quite a bit in her college applications. What about looking into things like citizen scientist opportunities that you can assist with online? Or if you are a writer, there are a lot of online poetry contests – my D successfully entered some of those and was published a few times. Or spend the summer really prepping deeply for some EC you like (my kid was a quiz bowl participant, and she studied a lot in the summers – which really paid off in the fall). Oh, and there are online classes – you can take a couple of courses through something like Udacity, my D took statistics summer before senior year.</p>
<p>Living on an island is kind of exotic, maybe you can leverage that in your essays somehow, too. :)</p>