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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Attending these programs likely precludes any summer job. Most kids will get much more of a leg up on college admissions by working at McDonald's or lifeguarding full time for the summer. It will also teach many more relevant life lessons than taking a "college course" in a protected environment. [/quote]

I hear “get a job over a pay-to-play summer program” everywhere. However, the kids I know last cycle that got into top 20 schools ALL did a summer program. 100% of them. These are not highly competitive, free programs either. Just the regular Brown, Georgetown, NYU, USC type programs. It makes me think colleges like these as it shows intellectual curiosity or rigor or something. 
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It's the other way around.  The students who are intellectual and smart would self-select to participate in the summer programs, to learn, to be inspired, to explore.  These same students, are the ones who performed well academically.  It's simple correlation, not causation.

I don't know about lifeguarding or McDonald's.  However, if you get a challenging summer job, say, at Google.  That qualification aligns well with academic rigor.  [/quote]

https://abc7news.com/bay-area-high-school-graduate-google-hire-rejected-by-colleges-software-engineer/13897632/

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