Advice for Environmental Studies/Science Applicant

[Anonymous]

Looking for spike/EC advice for a non-DC private school kid. Aiming for T10.

Top 5-10% (don’t know exactly); 1520 SAT (retaking); 3.92uw;
all advanced science/math (all As); special environmental senior independent project.

ECs: captain debate (regional awards); class president/stuco; enviro club VP; food pantry volunteer; V sports/co-captain (sports awards too)….

Nothing distinctive related to major….looking for summer activities and/or meaningful niche projects in 1-2 areas to show an interdisciplinary spike?
Summer programs?
Other application based fellowships or remote activities?
Ideas to strengthen profile?

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Many T10's don't have great environ programs. Make sure you find a good fit for your major, not just T10.

Research?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many T10's don't have great environ programs. Make sure you find a good fit for your major, not just T10.

Research?

Really?
Duke? Northwestern? Stanford? Yale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many T10's don't have great environ programs. Make sure you find a good fit for your major, not just T10.

Research?

Almost all T10s have great environmental programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many T10's don't have great environ programs. Make sure you find a good fit for your major, not just T10.

Research?

Even if "T10s" are considered, schools such as Middlebury, Colorado College, Hamilton, Bates and Bowdoin may devote proportionally more resources to environmental fields, and also would seem to be worth consideration:

2025 Best Colleges for Environmental Science - College Transitions https://share.google/V8U6Qlcs8Go3Fyqnk

[Anonymous]

What about activities? Summer programs? We have a developing list….

[Anonymous]

If your DC is interested in attending Brown, I highly recommend this program: https://precollege.brown.edu/programs/bell-program. I personally know someone who went there, enjoyed it, applied ED and got into Brown.

[Anonymous]

Look yourself or have your kid look. What’s the point in sharing the hard work others had to do?

[Anonymous]

There are a few excellent summer programs but they are extremely competitive. Just google.

[Anonymous]

Are you sure there are jobs for this major? Id encourage majoring in engineering instead.

[Anonymous]

None of T10 restricts major declaration. Get in first worry about major later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a few excellent summer programs but they are extremely competitive. Just google.

Borland? World Food?

I feel like there has to be other stuff? For this major there doesn’t seem to be as much that’s not pay to play at various colleges (which don’t seem competitive or move the needle). Just seems like filler pre-college stuff like at Brown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look yourself or have your kid look. What’s the point in sharing the hard work others had to do?

There are a few of us on here interested in this. No need to gatekeep.

Why are you even here?

[Anonymous]

Raise tilapia maybe? I’m not kidding. Can be done in tanks in the basement. Enviro science is super common especially among female applicants to brown, Yale. Something weird will help kid stand out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a few excellent summer programs but they are extremely competitive. Just google.

Borland? World Food?

I feel like there has to be other stuff? For this major there doesn’t seem to be as much that’s not pay to play at various colleges (which don’t seem competitive or move the needle). Just seems like filler pre-college stuff like at Brown.

I wouldn’t do Brown.

If you are more “science” than “studies”, look into broader science programs. They always have an earth/environmental cohort. BU rise has it.