Summer opportunities

5. • OxBridge
• Stanford
• Columbia
• Brown
• Cornell
• MIT
• Georgetown
• McGill
• U Toronto
✓ 2 - 6 Weeks
✓ Range of Courses
✓ Independence
✓ Room & Board
✓ Academic + Social Experience
✓ Campus Visit

6. Would attending Stanford summer
programs improve one’s chances for
freshman admission?
“We do not have a preference for students who attend
Stanford specific summer programs, but overall,
engaging in enrichment opportunities and advanced
courses may demonstrate your enthusiasm for
learning and discovery. The fact that you are taking
summer or enrichment programs is not in and of itself
the value-add to your application, it is what you take
from that experience, how you share that experience
and how that experience has enhanced your
intellectual life that is of importance.”

7. Paying for Opportunities
VS.
Creating Opportunities
Service Opportunities
Internships
Academic
College Visits

8. Service
What opportunities are here locally?
• ISM Partners - Gawad Kalinga, PREP, Ocean Activism,
SPECS, Papaya, Project Smile
• UNESCO
•Habitat for Humanity
• Family Connections
• Start your own

9. Service
Other:
•Combination of service + language
•Visions
•Putney Student Travel
•Medical Career Camps (UK, Thailand, India,
Tanzania,etc)
•Family Travel + service/ arts