Summer Program?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I am currently planning out my summer of 2014, and I just have a few questions for all of the admissions officers that are on College Confidential.</p>

<p>I am applying to the Leadership in the Business World "LBW" program at Wharton for the summer. The admissions process is fairly selective, as they choose 60 students out of all of the applicants. I am excited for this program because it really draws on all aspects of business (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc.). I am especially interested in the speakers that come. Here is the program's website:
Leadership</a> in the Business World | The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania</p>

<p>I believe that this program will help me in the future because I am developing a passion for the financing, marketing, and communications world of television production.</p>

<p>However, this program does cost a few thousand dollars. I have read some comments that admissions officers have made, and they often say that the Ivies aren't interested in the fact that "Daddy bought your way into fancy summer classes at a fancy school." One website I found even said that it is better to get a job flipping burgers at McDonald's than to take college enrichment courses during the summer. What isn't very clear to me is whether the enrichment courses they are talking about are just those kinds of courses that one would take in college, of if they mean any program that you have to pay a decent amount of money for…?</p>

<p>LBW, in my opinion, doesn't seem to contain kids that robotically go to the equivalent of summer school every day, but rather kids that are driven about what they want to do in life. Is what I have been seeing online true, or would LBW actually have a positive effect on my college application?</p>

<p>Please help!</p>

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<p>Many summer programs offer their participants a meaningful experience. What you’re citing is the fact that some for profit programs overblow the significance of these programs – inciting insecure parents and students that without one or two of these programs on their resume, they are doomed to poor college results.</p>

<p>If you can afford it, and the underlying program seems legit, then go for it. There are many even LARGE ones (future medical leaders, National Young Leadership Forum, etc), out there which totally are not IMHO. This org even puts out press releases saying “X has been nominated as Wyoming’s representative to the Future Medial Leaders conference in Wash DC” – to pile on the baloney.</p>