Summer Before Senior Year

Summer Before Senior Year May 16 Spend your summer months wisely. Attending a summer program at a top college isnt spending your summer wisely in the eyes of admissions officers at top colleges. No matter what they state publicly. How should you be spending your summer before your senior year? You should be going to a highly selective university like Duke, Johns Hopkins, or Stanford to partake in their prestigious summer programs, right? It would seem logical. After all, if you want to go to Stanford, wouldnt enrolling in the Stanford Pre-Colegiate Summer Institute make sense? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Its a trap. A big trap. As weve said many times before on this blog, in publications across America, and on Huffington Post Live, these summer programs at highly selective colleges are sleepaway camps. College admissions officers at highly selective colleges arent impressed that mommy and daddy spent over $10,000 for you to go to the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute. They dont care how selective the admissions process was for you to be able to attend. And btw, its not all that selective. What they see is that mommy and daddy can afford to send you to camp, that you couldnt come up with any genuinely creative way to spend your summer, and you think attending such a program will impress in the college admissions process. Quite simply, it wont. But, wait, heres how Stanford describes their program on their website: The Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes are three-week and four-week residential programs for academically talented and motivated high school students. The Summer Institutes provide an opportunity for these students to enrich and accelerate their academic pursuits and to meet other students who share their interests and abilities.  Summer Institutes participants live in supervised Stanford housing and are taught by Stanford instructors. Students engage in intensive study in a single course and are introduced to topics not typically presented at the high school level. The Summer Institutes provide a taste of college life in the beautiful surroundings of the Stanford campus. It goes on to say, Summer Institutes subject areas include arts and humanities, business, computer science, engineering, legal studies, mathematics, social science, physical and biological science, and writing. The instructors are assisted by undergraduate and graduate student mentors who have expertise in the course subject areas. These mentors serve a dual role of Residential Counselor and Teaching Assistant so that the academic and social aspects of the program are tightly integrated. Thats nice. Think about it. Theyre selling you. They want your $10,000. Itll help build a new library. That doesnt mean attending such a program will help you get into Stanford much less any other highly selective college across America. In fact, it could hurt your chances.

Article Review Example on Death and Dying in Nursing

Nursing Articles Review Example on Death and Dying Article 1 The article by Dawn and Ginny examines under-treatment of pain among patients at advanced age, above 70 years. Although pain relief must be available for all patients, this group continues to experience the highest level of under-treatment. The authors note that there are three main factors that often result in pain under-treatment in older patients. They include fallacies concerning aging, challenges in accessing treatment, and admission of pain related stigma.