<p>oh sorry i meant UCLA PEERS program.
anyways, does anyone know much about this program? are they very selective? i want to apply, but i am very busy with other scholarships and dont want to bother if they dont accept me (considering the fact that i wont be able to devote too much time for my essays). thank you!</p>
<p>I applied for the heck of it. Looks pretty appealing. I would like more information about this program as well.</p>
<p>Bump. Anybody have their result from the PEERS Program? The more I read, the more I like.</p>
<p>as a tutor for peers workshop, i will tell you i think the program is a huge waste of time. you are required to take 2 workshops per quarter in addition to ur classes. while this may be a very useful way to spend your late MTWTh afternoons, I personally found it to be a waste of the students times. furthermore, you are required to do a whole bunch of extra work, like attend meetings, research talks, etc. that realy wont do you any good.</p>
<p>your time would be better spent finding out about research yourself or self-studying on your own schedule, if that’s your cup of tea.</p>
<p>i am not in PEERS myself btw.</p>
<p>Hey guys! Just wanted to tell you that I was accepted to this program. I dont think its really hard to get into though, since I did my essays the day it was due! =p good luck though!</p>
<p>When do they let you know?</p>
<p>Supposedly they email you, but I never received an email… 
I thought this was like an apply and automatically get in sort of thing. They must be looking for potentially struggling students, because I listed all A’s on my science and math courses and didn’t list any social or environmental barriers. Anyone else?</p>
<p>I had a friend who joined PEERS the beginning of the school year. He dropped the program in about 5 or so weeks. He said it was so time-consuming and generally useless. They would teach him things like how to study (maybe something like it, forgot) or something.</p>
<p>i got the email from them yesterday ;]</p>
<p>hmm im not too sure about the potentially struggling part, iris. i also listed all A’s on my application. although you might be right about the barriers part, since i talked about financial barriers/ single parent/ first in my family to go to college… stuff like that.
they notify you by email =]</p>
<p>I still have no notification :/</p>
<p>plz do not stress about this. it really doesnt mean anything.</p>
<p>They lost my application. Everybody who submitted it early had their application lost.</p>
<p>Just saw information at a PEERS event that showed that PEERS students graduate faster, with higher GPAs and are more likely to stay in science majors than students than don’t. Graduating faster with better grades? What’s not to like? Sounds like a great program.</p>
I applied to PEERS my freshman year because it seemed interesting but in retrospect I probably should have dropped out. I don’t think it was that competitive
PROS:
Workshops-Do worksheets, practice material, ask tutor questions
Networking-You can get to know certain professors that work with peers
Info- They tell you about research programs and events
Friends- you spend a lot of time with the same people who are taking the same classes as you so you can ask each other for help, and relate to each other
CONS:
workshops-they are mandatory and are monday-thursday and become realllly time consuming
-sometimes you have bad tutors
-everyone gives up by the end of first quarter
seminar- seminar was super pointless
I have mixed thought about peers, I could have done easily without it, I preferred AAP peer learning session. Although without it I probably wouldn’t have talked to my counselor once a quarter and known about the research programs on campus. If you have the time in your schedule to do it I would test it out for a quarter, a lot of people tend to drop it anyways