Are summer boarding programs at Brown, Harvard, Penn, Exeter, Andover worth it?

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Anonymous wrote:What free programs? What's MITES

MITES (http://oeop.mit.edu/programs/mites) is a highly competitive engineering summer program for high school students, hosted by MIT. The school pays for tuition, room, and board. The students who are admitted to MITES tend to be the top STEM students in the nation.

There are others held in a similar regard: Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), Summer Science Program (SSP), Research Science Institute (RSI). All competitive, highly selective, and free. They will confer an admissions advantage because they are renowned programs.

Really? Why don't you tell everyone what the M in mites stands for while you are at it? Unbelievable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITES

You should read your own sources. From the above link:

"Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible to apply to MITES, applicants must be:

U.S. citizens or permanent residents
High school juniors or equivalent
Students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds can apply to the MITES Program."

I did MITES back in the early 90's and it was fantastic. I was told then that MITES was harder to get into than MIT's freshman class. As long as we didn't bomb at MITES, admissions would look upon us favorably. Many classmates went on to MIT, and others went to other top universities.

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The boarding school ones are great for 8th 9th and 10th. College ones for 11th. Brown was by far the most popular college one at my daughter's school.

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Anonymous wrote:^^how longis your DS signed up for? My DC wants to do Brown for 1-week and is also looking at the Brandeis Healthcare program.

I wish he had picked a one or two week program. He picked a 3 week program. Almost $6K including boarding.

UMD's 3 1/2 week program is about half that cost FYI. No Ivy name but UMD is no slouch.

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Anonymous wrote:^^how longis your DS signed up for? My DC wants to do Brown for 1-week and is also looking at the Brandeis Healthcare program.

I wish he had picked a one or two week program. He picked a 3 week program. Almost $6K including boarding.

UMD's 3 1/2 week program is about half that cost FYI. No Ivy name but UMD is no slouch.

They don't offer the anything my DS in interested in. Brown's offerings are much deeper than UMD's.