12 Summer Activities that Impress Colleges: Overachiever’s Guide to Summer Break
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- Brooke shares 12 tips on things to do over the summer to make your college applications stand out to admissions officers in this overachiever's guide to maximizing your summer break!
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Applying to college seems so stressful.. whenever I think about the SAT or ACT or my GPA I get anxious because everyone is so competitive
true Jesus true
All of have to do is believe in yourself.
JustAKat believe AND actually work hard
but but ............ur jesus
Aw it’s ok Jesus
1. 0:55: Summer School
2. 1:48: “Go go college”
3. 3:07: Online Class
4. 3:32: Competitions/contests
5. 4:01: Research
6. 4:51: Job/Internship
7. 5:57: Get invoked in Politics
8. 6:20: Start a business
9. 7:17: Test prep
10. 7:45: Travel abroad
11. 8:08: Write some essays
12. 9:02: Visit colleges
Mines better cause it’s got time stamps
you're a legend dude
A legend
can't visit colleges because of covid.
A legend bro 🥺
I met a Harvard student through the train- I live in Chicago- and he caught me writing a paper. He asked if I wanted some help and gave me his information. That was a year ago and we still talk. He has been helping me on essays, this is especially important for the SAT’s. It has been an enormous help. I just thought I would share that.
Xena would you like to help me with essays?
Oh yeah yeah
@@FlamingFrostbite244 bruh
Are y’all dating now damn
He prob wants to smash
I love watching this when summers already almost over !! 💀
August 23rd...
alysah cool Facts ;-;
deadass 😭😭
are you in college yet lmao
@@anagha2571 Yeah lol the application process was hell but I made it through
Activity 1: Summer School
Activity 2: Go to college
Activity 3: Take an online course
Activity 4: Enter scholorship contests or competitions
Activity 5: Research
Activity 6: Get a job or an internship
Activity 7: Get into politics
Activity 8: Start a business
Activity 9: Test prep
Activity 10: Travel abroad
Activity 11: Write some essays
Activity 12: Visit colleges
Thank me later...
thank you now. God bless you
Thank you!
I’m studying abroad in South Korea and learning about economics and politics THAT BETTER LOOK GOOD
tayxtaex you don't know how jeleous I am right now XD
A course is not a physical entity henceforth it can't look good.
Good job!
That's great! What university did you study in?
tayxtaex what university do u study in?
Hello from India!
Hey Brooke, can you make a special video for international students like what things to keep in mind while applying as international, what should they do to impress admissions and how to stand out in an american college admissions system or just your thoughts as admissions counselor and etc.
Also, most of the things you mentioned like community college, summer school, research or even those start-up programs, unfortunately, lot of us don't have those resources or concept that high school students do that.
Since more and more number of international students are applying, seeking information and watching your videos. It'll be really great if you would make a video on it!!! :)
Thanks for asking my question!!
I was thinking the same thing, since a lot of options like classes or research at community colleges or being able to work with political campaigns as a high school student aren't feasible outside of the US. I would be found it helpful applying to college a few months ago, I'm glad I'm done with the stressful process and have gotten into Brown though
Thank you so much for asking thiss!!
I also need to know this...... Please do make a video.
I would like to see that video too it would be very helpful
Remember to always be positive. Determination is key, your mindset is the strongest tool you can have. If you want it, you have it. Nothing stands in your way, shape your life. Manifest your life. Want to go to Harvard? Then go to Harvard. You can and you will. Fake it til' you make it, your dreams are infinite. The possibilities are too.
There are FREE versions of college classes at Ivy's. My counselor found them. You can definitely find the too!
Yea you just look up open course *instert uni and course*
But u can’t rlly put test prep, writing essays, or visiting colleges on ur application
Thanush But where do you put it?
Hey Brooke, would you be able to make a video similar to this one, but for people who are seniors already this year? Sort of like a "things/activities to do to prepare for the summer before college" video?
SAMS at Carnegie Mellon was the most amazing experience ever!! It’s a competitive program that’s completely free, I would def recommend everyone to apply!! It also helped me get into their school of computer science, which is #1 in CS and had a 4% acceptance rate this year!!
Woah thats amazing
Wow that's so great to hear, I'm planning on attending next summer. I hope to eventually attend CMU for Chemical Engineering.
could you make a video explaining what highschool college prep programs/camps/memberships are actually worth time and what are money holes? I keep on getting letters that say stuff like "you have been selected blah blah" but I think its just because of my collegeboard account :/ I would really love to apply myself to legitimate programs not ones just there for your money!!!
I know! It's a hard world to navigate, right? We'll keep this in mind.
I love the way you tell , the information you give, it entires me a lot
Can you make a video on gap year?
tejal patil - Hey! I am from India as well! Just make sure you utilize your drop year ie. do what you love to do.. If it's programming do online courses, if you like music , make a song post it on youtube or help a neighbouring kid with his studies!
All the best for the SATs!
Feel free to ask anything! I will be glad to help a fellow Indian Student.
Thank you!
no worries !which part of the country you are from? Which unis u will be applying to??
PIYUSH ANAND hey! I have taken a drop year for jee prep but I've always wanted to do my unger grad from the US,would you mind helping me with that...
Yo life updates? Where did y'all end up?
I'm excited about the answers
This video was super helpful and satisfied my growing anxiety as a freshman for not knowing what to do this summer, and answered all my questions. Thank you so much!
It would be helpful to include a summary at the end of the video. or include a list in the description.
I'm so scared because now I don't know when things are going back to normal, and now I can't do most of theses things because of quarentine.
GIRL I KNOWWW
SAME 😭 i wanted to do some theatre programs and internships but i’m not paying thousands of dollars to do theatre over zoom 💀
Thanks for the video . It always make me feel positive after watching your video
Thank you so much for this video! Because of you, I will be taking 2 college courses over the summer. I also cold emailed about 39 CS and ECE professors at my local university and I will be working on a research project with a team there! Some advice from me to anyone who is interested on working on a research project with a university, is to just ask. The worst they can say is no and they usually will just redirect you to another program the school has to offer.
I took college classes over the summer at Carnegie Mellon. Highly recommend it!
same!!
Hope to talk more about international students cz it's much much easier for the Americans to be enrolled in the unis than the international ones....Thanks
Dreamer One g
Love your vids! They’re actually so helpful ❤️
I'm only 1 activity in, and I already do that. I'm interested to see the rest. This year in summer school I'm taking phy-ed, health, and US history.
Your office look so cozy!!!!!
An idea is University of Wyoming’s Summer Research Apprentice Program (SRAP) which provides minority, first-generation and female students with the opportunity to gain hands-on research experience in a collegiate setting. But you don't need to fall into those categories. From personal experience I saw many participate in this program who had none of those attributes. And you don't need to be from Wyoming. I saw many participants from other states for example Texas and Wisconsin. My two sons did a total of 5 SRAP summers and had great experiences. Neither of them were minority or first-generation. A quick description is do research mentored by a UW faculty mentor, live in dorms and experience something like college life, get paid, prepare a poster, and give a presentation. I'll bet there are similar programs elsewhere.
Sounds like a fun summer!!
Can you please talk about quest bridge scholarship and the gates scholarship
I don’t know why I’m watching this lol I’m already in college 😂 but I love your videos!!
❤️
I'm already in college, and in my country college admissions don't even work that way 😂😂
But I like to know how that stuff works in the US
Bernardo Araújo Samee, mi pana :v
Well you can do step two pretty well haha
Same lol
Her: are you wondering, what am I going to do with my summer vacation...and you're looking for some ideas-
Phineas and Ferb: yes
OMG! 1, exactly what I was gonna do!
I haven't watched your videos in so long. Its terrible of me. My school just showed a video of yours and I was like yes!
Would you please email us the name of your school? We'd like to send them a "thank you"! info@supertutortv.com
Thanks
Watching this video after summer is about to end 🤧smh
Were was this video when I need it ☹️
You are literally the “BESTTTTTTT SUPERTUTOR Ever” Thank you so much, I am very happy with the content🙋🏻♀️🤩🤣😆😁😁😅😅
One app that I found was an app called spotivity. It's still in its beta stage but it gives you reccomendations for summer camps and other extracurriculars that you can do in your area based on a personality test. It's been helping me a lot this summer.
where app
Could you make a video about different awards for high schoolers that colleges like seeing?
i’m in dual enrollment with a local college near where i live and i’m finishing my associates by senior year! i’m hoping this will impress colleges...fingers crossed
Thanks for this video! It was very much needed. Quick question: for research, do you need to have experience in a research program or are labs performed throughout high school good enough experience?
It depends on who you can convince to invite you onto a research study. Some will expect you to have more research experience than others. There is no simple answer.
I wish I can do summer school but our district makes us pay 250 for one semester class which is too expensive for me.
katelynn s mine makes us pay 800
Can u do an impressive internships/activities version of this?
Wow I didn’t even think of summer school to get those required classes out of the way!! Tysm (I’m in 8th grade and totally ready for highschool lol)
Pro tip: talk to your councilor about taking 9th grade math during the summer so you can skip a year in math it’s common in my school and it also works for science subjects but the most useful is the half semester credits you need for graduation (for my school that would be financial literacy and a specific PE class)
My high school offers this early college and what that means is basically we start college our junior year of high school and we all come to the high school then after first period ride a school bus to the college campus and come back for 6th and 7th period and do this everyday, my friends and I have been accepted into the program and will be starting this year. They also give you the option to get your associate's degree so me and my friends decided to do that so when we graduate high school we will have that and also it's free at our school
For once, a Supertutortv video made me realize I have apt extracurriculars!
I'm taking PE over the summer so I can take AP capstone, Orchestra, and Spanish 3. Also I had a horrible expirence with the PE department this year. I recieved an Injury that kept me benched from swim team for a while due to my PE teacher so yeah
Thoughts on the NYT summer programs?
Hi! I am an international student from China. Your channel really helps me a lot! It will be really great if you make more videos about interviews and colleges' international student policies!!! There is only one question: do you have a podcast channel? I would love to follow you on that since youtube is a little bit hard for me to check regularly... Pls, reply me soon!!! Much love!!!
Hi. I find your videos really informative for my freshman younger brother. I have attended a UC and went to London to do my Masters, but I have so many loans to repay. I want my brother to be in a better position. He has mostly B’s and trying to get A’s now that he has been identified as having high-functioning autism. Are there any programs you suggest for him to best prepare? Does he have a better chance in college or worse because of his learning disability? Please share your thoughts, thank you.
Are academically challenging summer camps a good idea?
can you do a video for international students applying in the us please
I hope I could see this video when I was a rising junior, I am currently a rising senior and I got almost not time.......
Do these tips apply for students wanting to apply for graduate school? 🙈
Any advice for what I should do during summer as a freshmen?
Are those tactics valid for international students as well?
College credit plus is definitely a good choice. I’m still in high school but I take college classes and it’s really helpful.
I need ideas! What is something like an internship, but I wouldn’t need to commit my whole summer, just 1-3 weeks.
What are some online course websites that you suggest?
#2 is not a good idea. I couldn't find a college from NY to CO that had a college course that didn't overlap with the end of the HS year. There may have been courses for the second half of summer, but the prerequisite was the first half of the summer. Our son did it anyways, because we didn't know if his school was going to have physics for his junior year, and they definitely weren't going to have AP. So everyday we were running him to the local college, then to his HS, and then back again on some days. He had no time to study for his HS finals, but he did manage to keep up with physics though he missed several lectures, a lab and something else. He also got all his HS projects completed. His school and teachers were very accommodating, but it was crazy making for all (3 grandparents, 2 parents, friends if family were all needed for shuttling him around).
If your school district does dual enrollment I think you can setup classes during the school year, but that wasn't an option in our district.
I took an SAT Prep two weeks program does that count ? I also went to a one week STEM Camp at a university and I traveled to another state with some people from my school district to visit top Ivy League for a week i don’t know if it looks interesting
I'm a freshman going into softmore year next year, and I'm trying to start impressing college early since by the time I apply the playing field will be total hell. Thank you for these tips.
justehn start impressing them by learning how to spell sophomore :)
Richel Dhaliwal LMFAo
I was wondering if you could take ap classes during the summer?
What do you think about free summer camps? Last summer I went to a camp at my local university called SIMUW. It was a free camp taught by UW faculty. Would that boost my admissions chances?
Is online course considered as an extracurricular activity that i can put on my common app
Pls make video on point 10
when is it too late to email a professor about an internship
When I was 12, I already had 21 essays written and ready for college.
Judging Pageantry nobody asked but ok
Damn… I’m currently 14 (8th grade) and the most I’m doing right now is PSAT prep and placement tests for the honors classes at the high school I’m going to next year
Wow- I'm a rising senior at Williams College, a highly competitive college, and lot of these suggestions sound TERRRRIBLEEE. If you're a high school student do something that you're interested in. If you're into taking college classes in your free time (I definitely wasnt) then do it but it can mean a lot more for your college application to invest your time into something that you love. Don't let this process turn you into a robot. You still need to enjoy life and be happy.
These suggestions are for people who might enjoy doing one of them. Again, it is not for everyone.
Hi Brooke, I know this is an older video but I just wanted to ask for advice about creative projects to do related to the medical field. One of my friends wants a career in the film and directing industry and she worked on a documentary, then got a 4-year renewable scholarship to the university of her choice. This left me a little stuck because I can’t come up with any creative ideas or projects that can show my interest in the medical field. (If you don’t see this I hope anyone else can help lol)
Does volontering for human organizacions (like red cross or unicef etc) count
HI PLEASE HELP, so i failed one semester of gym and i think i’m supposed to go to summer school to make it up. should i go to summer school, or just take an extra gym class next year (with no other electives)? i have SAT prep starting soon btw... am pretty much booked but could tweak my schedule to squeeze in summer school. what do i do?! i heard it looks worse if you take an extra class instead of summer school? thanks!
Can test prep count as an extra curricular if I provide evidence??
Summer school likely won't be an option due to the up-in-the-air schedule of summer vacation with my parents, but I am quite interested in the online courses! Anyone have any recommendations for someone that's looking into going into computer science and engineering?
My daughter is currently in 8th grade and really excited about college already. Do you think 13 is too young to try some of these things?
A clarification: those activities need to be written on extracurriculars?
Hello from Romania!!! Can you make a video on " What's a good SAT Subject Test score"? I really want to know this too. Love you
Emanuel's world SuperTutor
TV already has a What's a Good SAT score video all you have to do is look up What's a Good SAT Score alongside SuperTutorTv's username.
Yhea but I'm taking about the Subject Test. I was wondering what's a good SAT Subject Test score for a school like UCLA or NYU ( my top 2 schools).
UCLA and NYU don’t REQUIRE SAT subject test, it won’t hurt to do them and you should aim for 670+ on each subject test for the calibre of schools you’re mentioning above. But if youre going to sacrifice time to study for your school exams then don’t particularly bother.
What’s the minimum age for research or community college?
Why is racing in our tuned rice-mobiles not on this list ? :(
Hey... What if I say that Out of these 12 fabulous activities, I've done all 11? I'm curious to know! @SupertutorTv
I used Coursera for online classes
But how do u incorporate online courses into your applications? Because I have taken this online course i want to know how I can put that into my application??
I did 24 credit hours in dual enrollment courses this year. How good is this gonna be for my application?
I got a 1570 composite sat (790 RW 780 Math). I am a 2nd semester junior. Is it worth it to take the act? I’m aiming for some of the more selective colleges and I know a lot of applicants take both tests. I haven’t done any practice and I doubt I could do much better on the act.
I did NSLC at American University
The second idea is just fine, except colleges don't offer full courses to HS students over the summer. They offer seminar style classes. The colleges here have two condensed summer sessions. Unfortunately the first one overlaps about 1 month with the endof the HS year. So our son had to take college physics, while finishing his sophomore year, maintaining his school work, completing year end projects and portfolios, preparing for exams, local, Regents, AP and SAT subject exams, while learning his physics out of the text book, because he had to miss occasional lectures, one quiz and 1 lab, which left him zero room for error. We needed every grandparent, and even friends of grandparents to get him from HS to the college and back to HS each day, except days he started at college, then went to HS, or went to HS the college then home or.... It was crazy making, and somehow he managed to maintain his grades in all classes, and get an A in physics.
The second summer session was not useful, because it was course ll which had a prerequisite of course l which overlapped with HS.
It won't hurt his college application, but the colleges he applies to will have no idea of how much effort it took. They'll just see it as one summer course.
We checked every local college, and every college in a city that he had a relative in. Their were no courses he could take that didn't overlap with HS. And it was only with great flexibility from the HS and his teachers that even made it possible.
I traveled abroad with my daughter while she is in high school. I don't believe they are asking about this on the college application.
Hi 👋 I’m an international student from Turkey! Last summer, I am at 11th grade right now, I became the first in a national science competition and besides a huge cash price and meeting professors who helped me after on my projects, I got a full ride for a college summer program. I participated in the whole course except for the last two days because months ago my family had planned a holiday to Greece and everything was paid. Even though I’ve been there for nearly a month, the university didn’t accept to give me a certificate. Should I provide images with my friends etc. from there or is it okay to say I participated there without giving any photos or certificates?
How I can find the internships?
1. Summer School
2. Go to college (take classes at local colleges)
3. Online Course
4. Scholarship Contests/Competitions
5. Research
6. Job/Internship
7. Get Into Politics
8. Start a Business
9. Test Prep (SAT, ACT)
10. Travel Abroad
11. Write Essays (Jrs going into Senior Year)
12. Visit Colleges
Ugh I need help. My job is in the financial section but it just so boring and monotonous. I don’t know what to do because this internship was provided by an organization. 😫
Could anyone here suggest some prestigious summer STEM programs besides RSI (lol) that I can still apply to right now? I'm a junior btw.
www.collegetransitions.com/top-summer-programs-for-high-school-students/
Alex Levine I highly recommend applying to the women’s technology program
At MIT. I applied and got in and it was an amazing experience. It’s also free if u earn less than $120,000
Omar What do you mean
What’s the difference between ap and honors
I am 15 can someone give me a crash course on what to do to get into an elite ivy ??? (I am a straight A student and have 5 aps and have written a novel)
All of my classes are honors so will they consider that when looking at my grades (3.3 gpa)
Blacklr2 1 Yes
I hve one request...
Can u pls make a detailed video on RSI application process for international students....
Its a little bit confusing as there are two options on their application portal-(Rsi and rsi international)
Which one do i have to apply for, as an indian student, for the one held at MIT??
There r almost no videos on the rsi application ... Pls pls 🙏🏻🙏🏻
what about sumer music programs
corn detassling
College credit is cool Bc it’s less classes in college and that can save money
Since most universities are generally more liberal, will it hurt me to help a conservative candidates campaign, or will it be beneficial regardless?
Most schools try to be "unbiased" and want to foster dialogue and diversity. That includes conservatives even if they seem to be populated with more liberals. It really shouldn't hurt you as long as you don't wax poetic about your political ideas in your essays, assert that you're intolerant or better than everyone else, or deride the left for paragraphs on end.