<p>ISSI is a great program as well (I’m going this summer and know people who have gone in years past), but you have to be a senior to apply, so it won’t really help on applications. One month in Israel doing scientific research (usually a handful of Americans and the rest are people from all over the world).</p>
<p>You should try adding LEDA in there. And for all that counts I chose MITES over SSP.</p>
<p>@mathdork my point is that the fact that Clay bankrolls Ross and PROMYS suggests they have greater institutional prestige because of their ability to secure outside funding [I think Mathcamp gets some outside funding but not nearly as much as the others]. This is not at all equivalent to which program is the best though. Considering that they have very purposes difference purposes it seems clear that there is no “best” program among them.</p>
<p>Pentupenguin, out of curiosity why did you chose MITES over SSP?</p>
<p>Oops choose, not chose.</p>
<p>BIMA should totally be up there</p>
<p>what’s BIMA?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about rankings. I went to a relatively low ranking, probably no one heard of it camp, and still got accepted into one of my top choice universities. I think the whole point of these programs is to just show you spent your summer productively. Of course, it wouldn’t hurt to go to RSI.</p>
<p>BIMA is a summer program for highschoolers at Brandeis University. It’s a month-long program for Dance, Theatre, Music, Choral Music, Writing, and Film [ you pick your own major]. Primarily aimed at jewish teens of various backgrounds. There’s also Genesis which runs at the same time as BIMA and has the following majors, Entrepreneurship, World Religions, and a few others i don’t know off the top of my head.</p>
<p>YESS is no longer around.</p>