<p>Hello. So I am a high school senior from India and I want to know that will attending the summer school program in any ivy league college make my profile more robust or not ?
If anyone has attended the summer school, please provide a detailed description.
Thanks alot</p>
<p>You mean something like “Brown Summer School” or “Harvard Summer School”? Not really, and it’s definitely not worth the money. The best programs are ones where you have to do more than pay to get in.</p>
<p>@catisforfite but my one friend in brown says that most of the other internationals who got acceptance had attended the brown summer school</p>
<p>My brother went to the Brown summer program just last year, actually, and he’d be the first to admit that it’s a party environment. Lots of trips to the beach and hanging out in dorm basements. It’s not a bad system by any means, and there was still a lot more academic activity than the average American teen undergoes during the summer, but these programs do not produce admissions bumps because 1) it’s easy to get in if one can afford it and 2) the academic rigour is about that of an AP class at the absolute best.</p>
<p>It’s possible that there are many internationals who learn about Brown by going to the summer school, and then are more likely to attend Brown than a peer institution, but even then I doubt strongly that “most” internationals who get accepted went in the summer.</p>
<p>If you have the grades to get into Ivy Leagues you’ll get in despite of the fact. But if you don’t, you won’t get in no matter whether you have attended their summer school or not. </p>
<p>It would help, but not as much as certain other–significantly cheaper–alternatives could, such as working on some kind of project, research, doing an internship, etc. That being said, it is what you make of it, and can potentially be a great experience. I would, as suggested previously, not recommend it solely for the purpose of augmenting your application. In fact, generally, you should avoid doing something only for this purpose, but rather pursue things that you genuinely feel inclined towards and motivated for doing.</p>