@teenagecrime thanks! Can you give me examples of the prep schools in the tristate area?
Read through the first couple pages of this thread.
All of these camps seem to require you to be amazing at math or science.
Any programs that are good and not math or science oriented?
I’ve looked and looked and I can’t seem to find a program that fits me. I’ve considered Penn’s Leadership in the Business World and MIT’s Launch, but the price is really high. If I got accepted, I could only afford to pay around $500. I am interested in economics, business, finance, international relations and foreign languages. I live in the Mid-Atlantic region. I can only attend a program that starts after July 4 because I plan to attend the FBLA National Conference this summer. Do you have any suggestions for me? Also, how much does the scholarship/financial aid pay for LBW and Launch?
Does anyone know if EFL (Economics for Leaders) would be a good program for someone who has not taken AP Economics yet? If I plan to take it next year should I then apply for EFL that summer or apply this summer with no experience?
AdCamp is a summer program in advertising and marketing. My DD did it last summer and really enjoyed it.
Does anyone know if HOBY LEADERSHIP is a good credential? Is it worth the money? It’s a leadership conference that lasts 4 days over the summer. Thanks
I was under the impression that HOBY attendees are only recommended by the schools. Each high school can only recommend one or two students. Once the selected student(s) is chosen, the school will register and pay the fees. I thought individual students are not able to register. Is my understanding correct?
You are correct, I was nominated
Do you have to pay? Our school paid for HOBY attendees.
A little bit because I am part of the Alternate program for HOBY. 
Sure, wish I was part of real thing, not alternate. However, I know I asked this before, but is it a program that looks good on college applications?
I found a whole page of Journalism camps
I’m looking for good computer programming or even gaming software design camps for my son… Any ideas? Traveling outside of our area is not an issue.
University of Mississippi has two sessions where you can pick from certain classes and get full college credit (they are actual college classes, not just a high school program). Best part is ACT and SAT scores get you a merit scholarship–my son took two classes for four weeks and including room and board, only cost $500 because he got a 30 on his ACT as a sophomore. It’s called Summer College for High School Students. Also did a program at Auburn that wasn’t nearly as well run and was substantially more expensive.
My daughter’s been accepted into the RMP summer program at UCSB and also into the RISE program at BU. Any thoughts on their relative merits - and which one she should pick? Her interest is in the biological sciences - specifically evolutionary biology.
@jollygoodfella, congrats to her. I don’t know about UCSB but my son was accepted to BU and is going to go there
Is the UCLA Summer Institute program worth the cost? I’m from out of state so I would have to fly.
I was accepted to the ArchStudio class but I haven’t decided if I want to accept my offer.
I have also applied for the Purdue STEP program but I believe that is more difficult to get into.
Would either of these look good enough on a college application and provide a good enough experience to be worth the cost?
How about the Yale YYGS? Or the Stanford humanities summer institute? Does anyone know which one is more prestigious of the two?
@jollygoodfella I don’t know which program is better for evolutionary biology, but I will say that BU RISE is more prestigious. I’ve not attended either, but the general rule of thumb is the cheaper the program, the more competitive/prestigious. UCSB RMP is 10K I believe, whereas BU RISE is less than 4k. MIT also lists RISE as a good program http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/summer . All of this being said, I have no idea if the research quality is better in one program vs. the other.
Both of those have been closed for applications, btw. I applied for both and got rejected from both YYGS is the more prestigious of the two, I think, but I have lived right next to boring old Stanford all my life so I might be a little biased…
Just found out two GREAT low cost options. I apologize if some of this has already been listed. didn’t have the patience to go through the whole thread. my child would have done the cooke college program but overlapped with dates to the Notre Dame free leadership program.
- Robert Cook honors college has a great summer program -cost 350 dollars for 2 wk . amazing price considering others cost thousands. we just got a call they still have openings and extending deadline till mid may
http://www.iup.edu/honors/summer/
- another is YOUTH NATIONS at univer. of Toledo--125 for 6 nights.