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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a professor, and I think research internships can be a good way for very driven and motivated students to get a taste of what a research career might be like. They can also gain some valuable skills and if they are especially responsible and capable they can contribute in a minor way by carrying out data analyses or helping to run experiments. However, it is very exceedingly rare that a teenager is actually a primary author. When students are authors, they are only a minor contributor, and this means they were responsible and smart and hardworking, and also they were lucky enough to have had some sort of connection. So it is very silly for any admissions office to expect students to do research (since not all talented high schoolers have access or connections), and even sillier for them to expect publications. Many undergraduate students at top universities do not publish during their time in college. The fact that parents and high school students believe publications are necessary just shows how out-of-hand the hype and hysteria has gotten and this makes them vulnerable to predatory pay-to-play programs. Please do not fall for this and please stop supporting shady and dishonest pay-to-play publications. [/quote]

I don't think publication is a big part of the high school science research universe. I think there's a few here and there.  maybe some scams are related to it, but there are scams related to learning to play soccer as well.

Some big science competitions don't even happen until senior Year of high school and any awards come after college applications are complete. But even without a big award , a college can be interested in the experience and opportunity and what the student has done with it.  
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