For high school students in particular, Caltech summer programs are competitive and thus will help you stand out on college applications. Even if college isn't your main prerogative, the programs can teach you invaluable skills that could give you the push you need to get a great job in com...
Elachi’s electrical engineering studies at Caltech led him to work at JPL in the summer of 1969, and he secured a full-time position at the Lab upon earning his PhD. An early coup in his long tenure came when NASA began to plan its first space shuttle missions. Elachi’s radar syst...
Yup. One problem with life is that there isn't a reset button. I'd be curious to see what would have happened had I gone to big state school, or if I had...
Note that at UC systems not named Berkeley, the offer is for 9 months, and you should add ~6k to the offer assuming summer support. Interesting, so I guess I should be looking at it as I got a good deal from Berkeley then, because even with the added 6k over the summer there is ...
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A:Many students have been involved in internships, summer programs, etc. that they would like to highlight somewhere in their application. If you don’t provide more detail in the above essays, you may want to incorporate it into this promptwithout losing focus on how it relates to your ...
However, you do have some leeway in terms of the gravity of the challenge that you addressed, and an essay that refers to some sort of social situation within your own high school’s community could be a nice change of pace from the more academic questioned by the remainder of the prompts...
A final media embarrassment came in 1991, when Carl Sagan predicted on Nightline that Kuwaiti oil fires would produce a nuclear winter effect, causing a “year without a summer,” and endangering crops around the world. Sagan stressed this outcome was so likely that “it should affect the ...