YESS program at caltech

Parents Forum
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<p>Does anyone have any info on this program.. Thanks.</p>

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<p>My S applied for it last year and was rejected. He was, though, accepted to U Wisconsin's Engineering Science Program, so my advice is to apply to more than one program if you like that kind of summer activity. My S had a 196 PSAT, and was getting As, Bs in precalculus and IB chemistry, but was only a soph when he applied. His soph classification may have hurt him.</p>

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<p>NSM-
I remember you mentioning this last year, about your son. My then sophomore ended up at Duke for the summer doing research for the cancer center. What plans or programs does your son have in mind for this summer? Son sent in a few and has two more I think left. He might do the Duke one again, he was paid very well and was stretched academically.</p>

<p>Kat</p>

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<p>I attended the summer before my senior year and it was a great experience. The 3 week program was split between two major areas of interest; my year it was neuroscience and physics. It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work! I don't think I got more than five hours any night I was there, whether it was working on a physics set, a powerpoint presentation or analyzing my experimental results. The friends you make there will stick with you for life, it was truly an amazing program.</p>

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<p>S applied this year to NASA Sharp and MIT's MITEs2.</p>

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<p>NSM-
My son also applied to MITEs2. Maybe they will see each other there? Couldn't motivate him about the NASA Sharp, as older son had applied for that years before. He did apply to RSI but I think that will be a long shot, a real reach. And there are some locally he applied to as well. Not sure which ones as there were a few and he did them with the GC at school.</p>

<p>Thanks for the update.</p>

<p>Kat</p>

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<p>Kat,
If your son gets in to Mite2s, you and he might enjoy reading "A Hope in the Unseen," by Ron Suskind. It is about a first generation college student -- black male from a horrendous school in the poorest part of DC -- who went to MITEs2 and then went to Brown University.</p>

<p>Reading the story is eye opening, particularly about how very difficult it is even for highly motivated, inner city kids to get decent educations. It also gives an interesting viewpoint of the MITEs2 experience (which has mainly middle class kids like our own).</p>

<p>It would be great if our kids got to go to MITEs2 together!</p>

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<p>A friend of mine went to the YESS program. I'll ask him if he is open to answering questions.</p>