College Fly-In Programs
These Fall programs allow seniors to fly to and stay at universities such as MIT, Tulane, and Penn State for free. They are not very competitive and usually include one-on-one college application and financial aid workshops with admissions deans. Some come with a scholarship or the ability to stay in dorms and attend lectures. A few institutions, like Carnegie Mellon, even offer one-on-one interviews with admissions deans anytime.
1:1 Admissions Officer Virtual Interviews
- Admissions insights videos
Fly-in Programs
- App due: mid-August
- Components: transcript, 350 word essay, academic writing sample
- Waived college app fee, sometimes regardless of program decision
- Admissions workshop, sometimes regardless of program decision
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, extracurriculars, two 250 word essays
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
- Stay with a Babson student, attend a class
- App due: mid-September
- Only open to low-income or 1st gen students
- Admissions workshops
- App due: mid-August
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, short essay, extracurriculars list
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
- App due: early August
- Priority to low-income and 1st gen students
- Components: transcript, extracurriculars, 250 word essay
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
- Stay with Bowdoin students, attend classes
Students Exploring and Embracing Diversity
- App due: early September
- Priority to low-income and 1st gen students
- Evaluative admissions interview
- App due: mid-July
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, resume, letter of rec
- App due: early August
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, short answers
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
- App due: early August
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, resume
- Admissions interview
- Attend a class
- App due: late August
- Multiple admissions workshops and financial aid workshops
- Only open to underrepresented
- Waived college app fee for participants
- App due: mid-August
- Only open to underrepresented
- Attend a class
- App due: mid-July
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, extracurriculars, two 500 word essays
- Attend classes
Perspectives Overnight Program
- App due: early October
- Admissions insights
- App due: early September
- Only open to underrepresented
- Components: transcript and counselor evaluation form
- 1:1 interviews with admissions ambassadors
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
Engineering Preview at Columbia
- App due: early September
- Waived college app fee, regardless of program decision
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
- Tour of an engineering firm like Google or Bloomberg, stay with a student
- App due: mid-September
- Components: transcript, personal statement
- Admissions workshop
- Mock admissions committee exercise, 1:1 interviews, open access to admissions officers
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
- App due: early August
- Connect with admissions and financial aid officers, talk with College president
- Attend a class
- App due: early August
- Participants guaranteed to receive a full-ride if admitted to Denison(?)
- Priority to underrepresented
- Admissions and financial aid workshops
- App due: early September
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: two 150 word essays, transcript, extracurriculars
- In-depth admissions and college evaluation workshops
- Priority to low income
Future Achievers in Science and Tech (FAST)
- App due: mid-August
- Priority to underrepresented
- Waived college app fee
- Admissions workshops
- Priority to underrepresented
Senior Visit Day- Travel Assistance
- App due: early September
- Priority to low income
- Components: transcript, short answer, form
- App due: early October
- Priority to underrepresented
- Waived college app fee
- Admissions interview
- App due: mid-September
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, 500 word essay
- App due: early October
- Only open to underrepresented
- Components: two 250 short responses, counselor recommendation form
Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering (WISE)
- App due: mid-August
- Only open to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, five short answer questions
- Admissions workshops
- App due: early September
- Priority to low income
- Components: transcript, one page essay
- Tips from admissions dean
- App due: late September
- Priority to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, 300 word essay
- Priority to underrepresented
- Admissions workshops
- Counselor nomination due: mid-September
- Only for low-income
- Components: transcript, counselor nomination
Admissions Strategics Partnerships
- Multiple programs
- App due: late August
- Only open to underrepresented
- Components: transcript, one 650 word essay, one 250 word short response
- App due: mid-August
- Priority to underrepresented
Senior Scholars Virtual Program
- App due: early November
Science, Technology, & Arts at Rensselaer (STAR)
- App due: late November
- Only open to underrepresented
- Virtual admissions workshop
- App due: mid-August
- Only open to underrepresented
- Admissions workshop
- Only open to underrepresented
- Priority to underrepresented
- Waived college app fee
- Priority to underrepresented
- Waived college app fee
- App due: early September
- Priority to underrepresented
- Admissions workshop
- Waived college app fee
- Low-income who complete program may qualify for $30,000 scholarship
- App due: mid-June
- Priority to underrepresented
- Admissions workshop
Penn Early Exploration Program (PEEP)
- Priority to low income, 1st gen
- Workshops with admissions counselors
Multicultural Visitation Program
- App due: early October
- Only open to low-income
- Components: transcript, two short responses
- Priority to underrepresented
- Waived college app fee
- Event date: early October
- Virtual, no app
- Admissions tips
- App due: early June
- Priority to underrepresented
Diversity and Inclusion Visit Experience
- Priority to underrepresented
- Admissions workshops
- Components: transcript, 400 word essay
- Workshops with admissions counselors
- Admissions workshops
- App due: early July or early August, depending on selected date
- Priority to low income