Key Takeaways Most families researching a Harvard-affiliated research opportunity expect a hefty price tag. The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center CURE program runs the other direction: rather than charging students to participate, it pays them a summer
Five years ago, a mere handful of universities ran a summer program built specifically around artificial intelligence. Today, more than a dozen do, and new options keep appearing. Artificial intelligence programs for high schoolers have
Key Takeaways Introduction The college application process differs from school to school. Some colleges hand back a decision on a first served basis in a matter of weeks, while others take months. It all depends
Key Takeaways Introduction A student refreshes an admissions portal in December, expecting either an acceptance or a rejection, and finds a third outcome instead: deferred. According to BigFuture, the College Board’s official college-planning resource, deferred
High school students interested in exploring careers in engineering have more opportunities than ever to gain experience before university – even if they’ve already had early exposure through the science fair circuit. Federal research labs,
Key Takeaways The American Mathematics Competition is one of the best-known math competitions for high school students in the United States. Most high school students take either the AMC 10 or AMC 12, depending on
Key Takeaways Introduction The National Economics Challenge does not sort students by age or grade. It sorts them by how much economics coursework they have already completed, which means a ninth grader who has taken
Biomedical engineering is one of the fastest-growing fields in American higher education, and it’s easy to see why: it offers a straight path from scientific curiosity to technologies that can make a difference in people’s
Each fall, somewhere between 85,000 and 110,000 high school seniors submit an application to the Coca-Cola Company for the Coca-Cola Scholarship, according to online sources tracking the program’s application volume. By the following spring, 150
Most scholarships built around computer science set a high academic bar before they even look at financial need. The Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship does the opposite. Its GPA floor is 2.3 on a 4.0 scale,
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