<p>hey guys, i thought JSA looked kinda interesting and I'm thinking of applying for next summer. anyone want to answer some questions?</p>
<p>1) what's the admissions process like? how hard is it?</p>
<p>2) is it actually a good program?</p>
<p>3) does it have an impact on your college application?</p>
<p>4) what sorts of stuff do you learn?</p>
<p>5) which location (school) is the best for a future IR major?</p>
<p>thanks a lot and any answer will do!!!!!</p>
<p>1) what's the admissions process like? how hard is it?</p>
<p>Not hard at all, I applied after freshman year, my gpa was in the gutter back then and I got in.</p>
<p>2) is it actually a good program?</p>
<p>It's a great program, really fun, and you learn a lot.</p>
<p>3) does it have an impact on your college application?
Ehh, probably not.</p>
<p>4) what sorts of stuff do you learn?</p>
<p>You can take classes like AP us gov, ap comparative gov, political philosophy, etc, and speech communication or political communication.</p>
<p>who wants to tell me more about junior state of america??? </p>
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<p>hey guys, i thought JSA looked kinda interesting and I'm thinking of applying for next summer. anyone want to answer some questions?</p>
<p>1) what's the admissions process like? how hard is it?</p>
<p>2) is it actually a good program?</p>
<p>3) does it have an impact on your college application?</p>
<p>4) what sorts of stuff do you learn?</p>
<p>5) which location (school) is the best for a future IR major?</p>
<p>I dont think location of school would matter much, but doing Georgetown or Princeton would probalby be best.</p>
<p>thanks guguru!!!! do you know if the ap classes count for school credit?</p>
<p>They usually don't, mine didn't, because you aren't taking the class at school, you should ask your GC though. If you take the AP test and do well you could get college credit.</p>
<p>I am proud to say that I went to Georgetown Session II this summer.</p>
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1) what's the admissions process like? how hard is it?
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Not very hard at all, as far as I can tell. If you deserve to be there, you will get in. They reject like two people every year as far as I know. Really, I think they just want to you have to work a little in order to get there. That being said, there were a lot of people who didn't seem too interested in the non-social aspects--but I didn't get to know them that well, so I definitely could be very wrong. The guys on my floor, for instance, were smarter than I had realized.</p>
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2) is it actually a good program?
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Well, I felt it was a <em>little</em> overrated, but everyone else loved it. I think it is still a very good program.</p>
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3) does it have an impact on your college application?
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If you have a lot of interest in political science, foreign affairs, etc., then it will help show that. But it would help to also be involved in JSA, MUN, or something else that is related. I don't claim to be an admissions officer, so I can't say.</p>
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4) what sorts of stuff do you learn?
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I don't know about any of the schools besides Georgetown. At G-Town, you spend a lot of time in class learning about whatever your class is about; I took AP US Gov. We learned about the American political system as a whole, not just the government. I would bet the AP syllabus on the College Board website would be a good resource for that class. You also have a Congressional Workshop in the evenings. This is basically graded parliamentary debate (10% of your total grade). I didn't find it that valuable; mostly what I could have done in JSA year-round, just a lot more of it in a lot less time.</p>
<p>The really cool part is the speakers program. We saw speakers from the State Dept., at least a dozen Senators and Representatives, Clinton's press secretary, Armstrong Williams, the Vice President of Planned Parenthood (or one of them), the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, the US Secretary of Labor (!!!), the White House Chief of Staff (!!!), and about a million others.</p>
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5) which location (school) is the best for a future IR major?
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Anywhere with Foreign Policy as a class, assuming that you mean International Relations. Georgetown has a great IR department, so it would be helpful to see what you think of the college, but I don't know that attending the summer school would affect your application. Maybe. They do indeed have an informational session with the Georgetown admissions department, but this year at least it was right at the time everyone was studying for finals or writing their term papers. I don't remember how great your chances for an interview were.</p>
<p>JSA Summer School is a bridge from high school to college where you will see amazing speakers (and also have time to wander about on Capitol Hill) and work with amazing professors. If you wait like everyone else, you'll also learn that yes, you can write a 12-page paper in 48 hours (and get an A on it!) and that you can survive three weeks of bad cafeteria food (and end up craving it once you get home). The academic work is intense (nightly reading, tests, and a 12- to 15-page paper, plus debates), and I don't think anyone ends up doing all of the reading, but you will come out feeling self-assured and nostalgic. As they'll tell you on your first day (if you go), your first day or first week may be scary, but you will be sad to go when it's finally over.</p>
<p>Haha I'm watching the very end of The Royal Tenenbaums so my writing is getting a little nostalgic and flowery...anyway, please feel free to ask my anything you wish.</p>