Research can be a big factor in being accepted to Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and other Ivy League or top tier universities! In this video of Stanford Admit Talks (SAT hehe), we drop some real juice on what YOU can do to land that summer research opportunity. Oftentimes, research opportunities can carry over from a summer internship into a year-long project, spawning into a "passion project". These "passion projects" are key to elite college admissions. I talk more about "passion projects" here: [ Ссылка ]

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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES MENTIONED
ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair) -- sooo many Stanford admits have competed in this
ASE Internships -- [ Ссылка ] what I did
Search online for more of these research programs for high school students!

FRIEND'S INSTAGRAMS
Casey (from Orange County, CA): @kc.nwin
Ines (from Madrid, Spain): @inessalter
Iris (that's me haha, from Oregon): @iriss.fu

COLLEGE PREP RESOURCES
💯SAT prep books I used
-Reading section: [ Ссылка ]
-English section: [ Ссылка ]
-Grammar: [ Ссылка ]
-Practice tests: [ Ссылка ]
💯 ACT prep books I used
-The Black Book: [ Ссылка ]
-The Official ACT Prep Book: [ Ссылка ]
✍🏼College essay books I read (and LOVED)
- College Essay Essentials: [ Ссылка ]
- On Writing the College Essay: [ Ссылка ]
- A is for Admission: [ Ссылка ]

WATCH NEXT
Extracurriculars
😍 How Passion Projects Can Help You Get Into Your Dream School: [ Ссылка ]
🤩 What my Stanford admissions officer said about my application: [ Ссылка ]
🏆How to ACTUALLY win AWARDS and HONORS: [ Ссылка ]
❓Will an Arts Supplement HELP Your Application?[ Ссылка ]
Essays
✍🏼7 tips for a SUCCESSFUL college essay: [ Ссылка ]
Standardized Tests
💯How to ACE the ACT: [ Ссылка ]
Parts of My Application
🌟 My Common Application Essay: [ Ссылка ]
👀 My Stanford Supplemental Essays + Tips: [ Ссылка ]
🎉My Cornell Supplemental Essay: [ Ссылка ]
🎵ACCEPTED Arts Supplement (Stanford, Cornell, Dartmouth): [ Ссылка ]
Q&As
🙀Stanford & Princeton ADMITS spill the TEA 🍵| low stats, standing out... College Applications Q&A! [ Ссылка ]
🙈Stanford Admits Q&A! Crazy ECs, Writer's Block, Time Management, Scholarships, and more! [ Ссылка ]

VIDEO "SPARKNOTES"
1. Programs matching high school students with institutions looking for interns
- Apprenticeship in Science and Engineering (HP & OSU)
- Look on the internet
- Varies by region and physical location
2. Cold Emails
- Honestly, I just emailed a few professors and personalized my cover letter to their research papers. But I was very lucky because I only had to send about 6 emails and I already got 2 offers... but some friends who were equally qualified if not more sent 100+ emails"
3. Network with teachers at your school
- "For my research opportunities, I was very lucky to be 15 minutes from a research university (University of California, Irvine) so I had a research mentor who was a chemistry graduate student helping me with some research projects for various competitions. I was able to connect with him through a science teacher at my high school. I also had two mentors (PhD students at UCLA) last year who I was able to connect to through the California NanoSystem Institute’s Nanovation competition at UCLA. I also look for research opportunities by looking up various programs at the closest university (for me, that would be UCI) and I could easy find a couple programs."
4. Network through science fairs
- start from home
- do the simple tasks and ideas you like
- explore various fields and take a couple niche courses if necessary. once you build up that repertoire, you're going to have a much stronger resume and cover letter too
- "I did science fairs to start, and I would even network with the judges and things like that. Most of my mentors are graduate students doing research themselves and I got to know them through science fairs and competitions.
- Also, I can't even count on like 5 hands the number of Stanford admits who did ISEF at least once."

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