<p>Which is better/more impressive: The week-long international relations program at Georgetown, or the four/three-weeks long JSA summer program?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Can you do both? Or do the dates intercept...</p>
<p>Can't do both, that's why I'm asking... :)</p>
<p>I don't know anything about the Georgetown IR program, but it seems to me that anything that's 3-4 weeks long shows a more serious commitment than a program that only lasts for a week. I don't think either is viewed as particularly "impressive" (especially since JSA costs something like $3500), but I do think you'd get a better experience out of it, since it's considerably longer.</p>
<p>do the one you like best...that'll be the better one :)</p>
<p>also, if it's free, that's good too lol</p>
<p>georgetown............</p>
<p>JSA is the better of the two. and yes it <em>is</em> impressive. voluntarily giving up a month of your summer - and the freedom to sleep in or watch tv - to sit in class for 7-8 hours a day, Monday through Saturday, cramming a semester course of AP Gov or Con Law or whatnot into that time period, doing an absurd amount of reading fo ryour classes, writing a research paper graded by an actual college prof who prolly graduated from an ivy league, and totally immersing yourself in politics and being obliged to "become fluent" in it if you werent already --- i dont know about you, but i find that quite a feat, then again , i may be biased having done the program last summer. and btw the connections you make are impeccable. most the kids are brilliant in some way and almost everybody there is class prez, stellar sats, over the top ec's , kids who 'll be applying to ivies come that fall, ya know . it's like going to a selective school where the ppl you're with is like half the experience. i thoroughly enjoy having a friend accepted early to yale, another recruited by harvard for crew, etc etc. ooo another thing. the quality of the teaching = byootiful. my prof was a former congressman, harvard grad, the best teacher i've ever had annnnd wrote me an incredible rec. seriously folks. jsa. just do it.</p>