<p>so i just joined and this is the first time I've posted anything so i could be doing this all wrong..... but anyways,</p>
<p>I'm 15 and I'm going to apply to the summer@brown program, and i was wondering if y'all think i might be to young. i know the only prerequisite is that you have to graduate 9th grade, which i will by the summer, but i haven't come across any reviews of it from anybody my age. If anybody has gone to summer@brown that just finished their freshman year did you feel too young? Or even if you've been to summer@brown and you were older, did it seem like a major party thing? my friend went one summer and said there was lots of drinking and partying but I'm not sure if i believe him...</p>
<p>ps. if i did this wrong could you tell me how to do it right please?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Brown’s program is one of those overhyped and overpriced “summer experiences” that’s really just a moneymaking technique that uses its Ivy League name to draw in high school students’ parents’ money. It’s not close to “prestigious” or “selective”; you pay, you get in.</p>
<p>It’s nothing special, I would expect partying (and probably some drinking, considering its student body comprises largely high schoolers from wealthy families), and maybe a little learning mixed in, if you decide to pay attention (which not everyone does, obviously–hope for a smaller, more motivated class!).</p>
<p>Are you too young? Well, you have to start somewhere … at least you won’t be wasting the most important summer–the one immediately proceeding your junior year. And yes, you seem to have “done this right”.</p>
<p>Okay thanks a lot! And yeah I heard it isn’t very selective which I guess could be a good thing. If you don’t mind me asking, have you ever been to a session before? Because even though I guess I’m a “wealthy high schooler” and i don’t mind partying, i am still really interested in the course i want to take on clinical psychology, and was wondering if you still learned a lot when you were there.</p>
<p>I’ve never gone myself, although I do know someone who went. You can learn from any program, good or bad (Brown isn’t really “useful” for college applications, but worry about that for your next two summers); however, depending on the length of your term, the depth of information will vary.</p>
<p>This is just for you to experience life in a field that might be of interest to you. Sure, you can put it on your application, but its not like RSI or SIMR which are like the big big internships at MIT and Stanford. Summer@Brown might give the Brown admissions office the idea that you are fond of the school, but im not sure if thats right :/</p>