<p>What I'm asking is, if you really want to go to an Ivy league school, and they just so happen to have a summer program, would going to their program give you a small advantage than if you went to another equally-as-prestigious Ivy summer program?</p>
<p>It might help you show interest at the school.</p>
<p>I asked my grandfather this when choosing between Brown and Columbia for the summer - he called people, and got an informal answer that it might be more beneficial to have gone to C than to B if I'd rather go to C for college.</p>
<p>Yes!!! unless it's like harvard or something..there's is no help with harvard admissions...lol. But generally, YES</p>
<p>I was under the impression that it didn't really help your admissions chances...</p>
<p>I know that columbia likes it when you do their summer program from kids that went there and got into the school. </p>
<p>most schools don't care though.</p>
<p>I know that Rickoids generally have a ticket to MIT (unless someone can prove me wrong on this).</p>
<p>In my experience, it didn't help. I went to Cornell Summer College 2005, applied to Cornell CAS (RD) this year, and was waitlisted. A week before my final rejection came, I got a letter congratulating me for making the Summer College Dean's List.</p>
<p>in general it doesn't help..as most school's summer programs aren't that rigorous admission-wise...aka if you can pay for it you can go. I know many kids at my school who were not in the top 50% of our class and went to summer programs at princeton, harvard, etc. these kids didn't even get into schools like bu,bc, etc.</p>
<p>No. They're usually money-making schemes and don't matter for admissions into selective unis. Free/more selective ones like RSI & SUMAC do matter though (at MIT and Stanford, respectively).</p>
<p>SUMAC matters?</p>
<p>What is the Summer College Dean's List?</p>
<p>Davidson's July Experience is supposed to help you get in. But not by alot, it'd be the deciding factor between two equally qualified students...or it'd get you off of the waitlist.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it won't help you get into THAT school, but it is a good thing to do for your application.</p>
<p>JHU's Summer College supposably helps with your app (according to one of our Juniors who was accepted early this year and attended 2 years of JHU's Summer Program).</p>
<p>Harvard had explictly said no.</p>
<p>I've heard about SUMaC helping, but it's not incredibly competitive to get in...</p>
<p>it wont help necessarily, but as someone else said, if they're down to three students, and one went to the summer program and the two others didnt, the one who went will probably be the one to get in. plus, staying busy acidemically over the summer looks good no matter where your applying</p>
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<p>It was just some lame letter that I got, because I got an A in the class I took. I think they were trying to give a pat on the back to people who went to CSC.</p>
<p>I agree with the person who said that if it comes down to three students and one went to the program, that person will probably get in.</p>
<p>Otherwise-- in many situations, no, it doesn't help you in college admissions, but it doesn't hurt you either. You're never going to be penalized for having shelled out money to attend summer college at a school. It goes on your resume - you have the ability to prove your academic strengths in taking college courses (alongside that university's college students!) - if you're doing well in a course, you can have a faculty member write a supplemental letter of recommendation for you (sometimes, though, the schools have TAs or visiting profs teach summer courses). You might be able to interview on campus over the summer. And either way, you've experienced life at that college as a student which allows you to have much more to say about why you love the school and why you go there; you have plenty of personal anecdotes which make an interview and an application more personal.</p>