<p>I'm sure it is better than doing nothing. A summer doing community service might be just as valuable.</p>
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<p>Maybe a summer program related to what you car about. Like if you love math, then attending a pre-college program in math is good. But like kollegkid said, community service or taking a community college class related to your passion is just as good.</p>
<p>MIT MITES program looks awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.</p>
<p>If nothing else, it shows that you're committed and passionate enough to spend your summer learning when you could have been hanging out at the beach. That's pretty good.</p>
<p>So, is the MIT MITES program better than going to summer@brown? Any other summer programs that will look good?</p>
<p>I was looking up the MIT MITES program, and I think its for minorities. Am I right? If so, I definitely can't go. Any other suggestions? I was looking at Harvard's summer program, but I think that is one of those money-machine programs.</p>
<p>You may want to look at programs that actually grant college credit, which could then be transferred to the school you ultimately want to attend. The 7 week summer@brown program does this, as does Cornell's summer program. (Harvard's I believe is non-credit.) </p>
<p>That way, even if the program doesn't help admissions, it may help later down the road if, for example, you want to take a lighter load one semester, or whatever; those credits will count towards graduation (if your school accepts them).</p>
<p>I have no idea if MITES is better than summer@brown because I know nothing about <a href="mailto:summer@brown">summer@brown</a>. but people from my MITES class (2006) are going to MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia and some other great schools. It's very challenging and most top colleges and ivy league colleges know about it.</p>
<p>It's primarily for minorities. when I went, there were a few asians and a few white people. they choose who will benefit most from the program. they accept about 10% of the applicants, maybe a little more. there are supergenius people who go to magnet schools and some from lower class backgrounds who don't have as much opportunity for that stuff. it's free, just for the record.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks for the replies. I will look into the MITES program.</p>
<p>The Ross Program </p>
<p><a href="http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/ross/%5B/url%5D">http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/ross/</a> </p>
<p>and PROMYS </p>
<p><a href="http://math.bu.edu/people/promys/%5B/url%5D">http://math.bu.edu/people/promys/</a> </p>
<p>are good programs for math-liking students, as is MathCamp. </p>
<p><a href="http://mathcamp.org/%5B/url%5D">http://mathcamp.org/</a></p>
<p>hey quick question...do u have to live in a specific area to be considered for the MIT MITES program??</p>
<p>nope they accept people from all over the country. we had two kids from puerto rico. Idk where else they accept from.</p>
<p>So is the Ross program look good on applications? I have heard about it before, but wasn't very sure. Also, how hard is it to get in?</p>
<p>I don't know how Ross's difficulty of admission compares to that of its sister program, PROMYS, but both involve a quiz on math problems that take a fair amount of thinking. I also have no idea what the base acceptance rate is for either program, but I met most of the young people at Ross 2006, and they seemed very interested in math, and came from several different countries.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks tokenadult. I will look into that.</p>
<p>This summer for 2 weeks, I'll be leading science camps for 1-2 and 5-6 graders at a science museum. One is about Chemistry and the other is about space. </p>
<p>Is this worthwhile?</p>
<p>That actually sounds really interesting. I like how your combining science and leadership/teaching skills together. However, the science part only works well if you overall passion is science.But overall that looks like something worthwhile. Also its only for 2 weeks. Although thats quite a short amount of time to show true dedication...at least you did something for the required amount of time and you really didnt have to kill ur summer over it. Now you have time to do other activites as well.</p>
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<p>well I did the Harvard program this summer and it did count for credit. I think that any summer program, specifically ones from selective universities that count for credit, would look good. It would also help, of course, if you got an A :P</p>
<p>well, I don't know about what looks good, but I agree with the 1st post. I did the Harvard SSP this summer and it was an absolutely amazing experience. I would recommend it to anyone. And, come on, it's harvard, how can it look bad??</p>