If you’re talking about SIMR, my cousin got in with no experience other than AP Bio and AP Chem (no other summer programs; she didn’t even have any other bio extracurriculars). I believe that program is very essay/rec-based. NIH is mostly a matter of hounding researchers with emails, I’ve heard.
What do you mean by “compete with the research done there”? Do you mean put it in science competitions? You can do that with pretty much any research; I could do it with the research I did this summer, although I’m not going to because I had an terrible partner whose name is still on the poster and… yeah. As long as you can make a poster out of it, you can submit it.
I am going to do research and submit it in the siemens competition. I have to do really good work for that. No posters. I need an 18 page paper. What research stuff have you done so far? And can I ask how old you are? @topaz1116 but just saying, those two research programs are the one of the most competitive in the country
Some of the most competitive? RSI, HSHSP, SIMR, YSP, Clark, and Simons (including the fact that you have to be nominated to apply) are the most competitive in the nation for research programs. There are other programs (non-research, in a way of speaking) that are very very very competitive as well. None of them are extraordinarily expensive, either (under 1k per week max, and you get a stipend for the nonresidential one); some are free. They are all very competitive (some have under 5% acceptance rates).
I participated in a research program at a very well-known university this summer. PM me if you want details on it; however, it was in the earth sciences. I will be presenting my research at an extremely big research conference in December. (I say my because I did every single bit of work on the project and my partner did nothing–our supervisor should have been listed as the second author.) Also, you generally end up making a poster at the end of a research program anyways. I may end up writing a paper for Siemens anyways, although I doubt it’ll get anywhere since it’s not of the type that typically wins these sorts of competitions.
By the way, for Siemens, you have to a) be a rising senior, or b) be working in a team.
