Hi everyone, I’m currently a junior seeking to study Electrical Engineering or EECS in college, and I’m trying to decide between attending UCLA’s High School Summer Research Program, or Yale’s Summer In Astrophysics. So far, I’ve been accepted to YSPA.
Note: I have not yet received an acceptance for HSSRP. They are releasing decisions on April 8th. I’m planning for the case that I DO get accepted to HSSRP, in which case I will have to decide between the two programs.
The factors I’m thinking about are as follows:
Interaction with professors/faculty(Possiblity of getting a rec letter)
Formal lab work/Research
Program Prestige
Program relevance to intended major(for HSSRP I selected Aero, CS, EE, and MechE for 1st choices)
Possibility of publishing a paper
Can anyone who has attended HSSRP or has knowledge about the program shed some light on any of the aforementioned criteria? All contributions are very much appreciated.
yspa is a relatively new program so I don’t how colleges view it. it definitely seems to be a pretty cool program a lot like ssp though. but I know someone who went to hssrp the summer before their senior year and they got regeants at uc Berkeley for eecs, and he said that it was a really good experience. I also applied to yspa but I didn’t receive an email yet so I was wondering when you got it and what it said if you don’t mind?
@Ishaynal and @Ynotgo YSPA sent the email on March 30th. It asked me to tell them whether if I’d like to accept the offer but didn’t give a deadline to do so.
@Ishaynal Do you know what department they were in? I’m planning to apply for EECS too haha
Yeah, the reason I’m thinking about HSSRP so strongly is because you actually get to work in one of UCLA’s labs, so I’d love some feedback from anyone who’s attended the program.
HSSRP is an 8-week program and Yale is a 4-week. I think you would get more accomplished at UCLA. Yale is a new program. This is the first summer. I think both would be equally impressive.