<p>Can anyone tell me about this program?</p>
<p>Program funded by Heart Foundation. Two students from each state chosen (+Dept of Defense Schools and Puerto Rico) for a total for 104 students. Great program that inluded paid week trip to DC AND $5000 scholarship. Google youth senate and read more.</p>
<p>I am interested in applying for this scholarship (the D.C. week sounds amazing!), and I'm curious what this beast of a "test" is like, so I'm reviving this thread.</p>
<p>Will past test-takers give me some clarification:</p>
<p>Did you have to go somewhere and take the test, or was it just a paper exam shipped to your school?</p>
<p>Were the test questions specific to your state or more a general government exam? Were they essay or multiple choice?</p>
<p>Does the foundation have a slight left or right wing bias?</p>
<p>Did your history teacher have to coordinate it or did you do everything yourself?</p>
<p>thykingdomcome-Wabash-
Feel free to contact me. I attended last summer. Great opportunity and competition is fierce.</p>
<p>Correction. I attended in March.</p>
<p>Hi thykingdomcome</p>
<p>This is a great program and I encourage you to go for it!</p>
<p>I'm a mom so I don't know the specifics of the test but I can tell you what I know of my child winning in our state. Every state handles it in a different way, but in general the content of the test is handled by each State Board of Ed and not the Hearst Fdn, so any politics are state-related. The test was administered at school and sent to the State Board to be graded, top 10 chosen for interviews, 2 finalists. </p>
<p>Someone from your school must contact the state coordinator listed on the website <a href="http://www.hearstfdn.org/ussyp/%5B/url%5D">http://www.hearstfdn.org/ussyp/</a> to get the ball rolling. You should look into this soon because it goes quite quickly in Sept.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Thank you both, I will pm bkb1958 for a more detailed student perspective.</p>
<p>I researched this program last year. One policy restriction - the applicant must attend high school in their state of legal residence. So all of the boarding school students across the nation are not allowed to apply!</p>
<p>can some one tell me where i can find good study material on for this test</p>
<p>i was selected as a semi-finalist for this program. i go in for an interview in November. can someone please let me know what they ask during this interview? anything would be appreciated!</p>