My Ivy Education co-founder Krystle DiCristofalo's YouTube video on how to get into SSHI For students who love literature, philosophy, history, law, political science, and big intellectual questions, few summer programs are as exciting as the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute (SHI, pronounced like "shy"). Hosted by Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies, SHI allows high school students to spend two weeks exploring college-level humanities topics with Stanford instructors and peer

Every year, thousands of the world's strongest young scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and programmers in 11th grade apply to the Research Science Institute (RSI), a fully funded summer research program for high school juniors hosted at MIT and sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education. RSI typically admits only around 80-100 students from a pool of roughly 3,000+ applicants, making it one of the most selective academic programs in the world with an acceptance

For high school students who love creative writing, the Juniper Institute for Young Writers is one of the most exciting summer opportunities available. Hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and affiliated with its highly respected MFA Program for Poets and Writers, Juniper gives aspiring authors the chance to either spend two weeks immersed in in-person workshops, craft sessions, author talks, and a community of fellow young writers, or one week with their virtual