Georgetown University Summer Programs Summer College Immersion Program

SCIP is only open to rising seniors from the Cristo Rey Network, KIPP Foundation schools or another school or network Georgetown has invited, and you need a nomination from your principal, guidance counselor or KIPP Through College regional advisor before you can apply.

Georgetown is looking for high-achieving students with strong GPAs, significant extracurricular involvement and what it calls a passion for leading purposeful lives, and it designed the program for students who want to apply to the most selective colleges. It describes SCIP as highly selective, and applying doesn't guarantee a place.

The first week focuses on admissions and test prep, and the academic seminars and writing course start in week two. Around these you'll have field trips, group discussions and workshops, and undergraduates from Georgetown and other universities work alongside you as mentors.

• Week 1

  Sessions with Georgetown admissions and financial aid counselors, an intensive SAT prep course, work on college-level study and time-management skills, community-building and leadership activities and the start of the College Search Intensive workshop.

• Week 2

  The Georgetown Experience Seminars and the Critical College Writing course begin, alongside more college search workshops and a Digital Literacy course.

• Week 3

  The seminars, writing course and college search workshops continue, and the week includes mock admission interviews.

The Georgetown Experience Seminars give you a taste of international relations, business, cybersecurity, government, STEM-related fields, liberal arts and health studies, so they're a sampler rather than deep study in one subject.

You leave with a personal statement written for your college applications, a Common Application you've already started and an action plan for submitting applications and applying for financial aid and scholarships. You'll also have taken an SAT practice test and been through a mock admission interview.

Georgetown doesn't list college credit or a transcript among what SCIP gives you, so the value is in the application work you finish, not a credential.

Tuition is free for every student Georgetown admits, because alumni donors and Georgetown's School of Continuing Studies cover it. Students who successfully complete the program also receive a stipend, although Georgetown doesn't say how much it is.

Tuition is the only cost Georgetown says is covered. Students live in the residence halls, but Georgetown doesn't say whether housing, meals or getting to Washington, DC cost anything. Families should check with Georgetown at summerimmersion@georgetown.edu or (202) 687-7087 before assuming the whole three weeks costs nothing.

Resident counselors live in each residence hall and supervise all students, and Georgetown says one is on duty in every hall throughout the day. These are the arrangements Georgetown describes for all its summer high school programs rather than for SCIP alone.

Georgetown's Protection of Minors Policy covers everyone under 18 in its programs, and the university's police department patrols campus regularly. The rules on alcohol and drugs are strict, and having or using them, or even being around them, means immediate dismissal from the program and the residence halls. In an emergency outside business hours, families can reach the summer staff member on duty through campus police at (202) 687-4343.