What are the misunderstandings in applying for summer schools in the United States?
Myth 1: equate summer school with tourism or study tour, which is completely out of touch with students' academic and other extracurricular activities at school.
Parents should make good use of summer vacation, make rational use of activity resources to train their children and integrate them with school education.
Summer school is not tourism, and it should be seamlessly connected with school education. The state of the main line of school education also determines the starting point and goal of summer vacation planning, and the state of students after the holiday also determines whether students are backward, flat or ahead after the start of school.
Excellence can be cultivated, but it needs to be planned in advance and step by step. If summer vacation is well used, students can take back 1 to 2-year courses in one summer vacation. In terms of vocabulary, a summer vacation in primary school can generally be pursued for two to three years, a summer vacation in junior high school can be pursued for up to two years, and a high school can recover the vocabulary of 1 year at most.
Based on the objective law of brain development, primary school students mainly play, so they need to learn knowledge in play and use summer vacation to lay the foundation for mathematics and vocabulary reading.
Excellent American children have a vocabulary of 5000 in the third grade. Children cultivate their autonomy and explore their interests by participating in traditional summer camps and comprehensive camps.
Junior high school students need to play in school and continue to lay a good foundation for math and vocabulary reading. If you don't get good grades, you should check and fill in the gaps in junior high school and quickly make up the foundation of primary school. Otherwise, the gap will increase in high school.
Good children can take part in AMC8 and spelling bee, attend talent summer camps such as CTY and attend classes in advance to cultivate their self-study ability. At the same time, he can take some excellent American youth camps, American high schools or professional camps to meet more excellent children, let them know that there are mountains outside the mountains and people outside, and stimulate their inner motivation.
This is not to ask students to skip advanced placement. When a student has a good foundation, playing sports, sports, talent and leadership in high school will not affect his grades, and GPA is also good. At the same time, extracurricular activities are easy to produce results, and he can get scholarships from top universities.
If you don't do this in junior high school, you won't be able to cope with your school work. Whether it's physical education, sports or talent, it will affect your studies and eventually put the cart before the horse.
The sooner children finish what they should do in the summer vacation, the more academic and standardization work in the school can be completed step by step or even ahead of schedule, and they can take the lead in the summer vacation of grade 9- 12, and the more likely they are to apply for top summer programs and sprint rattan schools.
Myth 2: Skip self-analysis and positioning, and choose blindly with fragmented information.
Before choosing a summer school, ask yourself a few questions: What are the basic academic and language conditions? Do you have the time and experience to attend summer school? What abilities do you want to improve through summer school? Is there a more suitable activity than summer school?
The more accurate you are in positioning yourself, the more accurate you will be when choosing a summer school. Because the more top summer schools, the stricter and more detailed the application requirements, including not only the subjective cognition of their own abilities and interests, but also some objective factors such as identity and time arrangement.
For example, the top STEM project SSP has three stadium locations, namely three camps in Colorado, New Mexico and Indiana. This course focuses on astrophysics or biochemistry. Students are required to have a strong professional background.
In the astrophysics project, students study calculus, physics, astronomy and programming during the day, and three students form a team at night. The project requires students to make assumptions, analyze and explain the experimental results on the basis of existing information, and apply the latest findings to drug design. The basic rhythm is taking classes during the day, doing problems, programming observation and writing reports at night.
If you want to apply for such a top research project, you can ask yourself these questions according to its content:
-Is your academic background up to standard?
-Have you attended the basic courses and knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics at the relevant university level?
-Is there any programming ability like MATLAB?
-Do you have scientific research or project experience to ensure that you can design, implement and write reports smoothly?
-Without the above background, how can people assume that they have accepted you? Can you successfully complete this project?
Another example is the top biomedical laboratory summer student program, which is located in Jackson Lab. Observe near-earth asteroids, write software for data processing, and predict the orbit of asteroids around the sun.
In the biochemical project, each team needs to design a fungal pathogen with small molecules that inhibit an enzyme. The scientific research level of biochemical projects has already surpassed the contents of undergraduate biochemistry books.
I believe that parents who have done biological experiments will be familiar with it. This laboratory is recognized as the largest supplier of experimental animals in the world, and it transports 2.5 million mice to laboratories all over the world every year. But only about 30% of high school students are involved in this project, and it is only for students with citizen green cards. No matter how high the gold content is, if there is no identity, it will be out.
Myth 3: Summer school won't just leave. Top summer schools need to prepare at least six months to one year in advance.
First of all, the admission rate of top summer programs is even lower than that of Hayep.
For example, for a top liberal arts program like TASP, high GPA and high standardization are the applicant's standards.
Let's just say. Every year, students with global SAT scores above 99.5% will receive an invitation from TASP, and then about 10% of the applicants can enter the interview round. It can be seen that the organizer takes SAT reaching 99.5% as the priority hardware threshold.
Aside from academics and standardization, let's take a look at its application process:
In the first step, students need to choose among four projects.
This requires a very clear professional career direction, because summer schools will have three camps, namely Cornell University (two projects), University of Maryland and University of Michigan at ann arbor. The choice of project will determine which university you go to.
The second step is to apply online.
Let's look at the title of the document and know how much work there is, 3 documents +3 short answers, and write the document until you spit it out. If you often visit American high school students' forums, you will find that students who are going to apply prepare documents about one year in advance.
Let's look at the first question. If any parents or students who apply for undergraduate experience in the United States feel particularly familiar with it, have you used a common app to find the topic: "Recall a challenge, an obstacle and a failure you faced, and how did it affect you?" What did you learn from it? Is the content of the document interoperable?
If you have written the topic of TASP seriously, you can write a similar topic more deeply when you apply for undergraduate course in the future.
Let's just say that the students who are successfully admitted to the top program are not because the top summer schools help them enter the top prestigious schools, but because they have the strength of the top prestigious schools before they are admitted. Even if you don't participate in such an elite camp, the probability of being admitted to a top prestigious school is great.