Are you interested in attending college outside of your SoCal? Not sure if far away college is right for you? Then a fly-out program sounds like a great opportunity for you. A "Fly-in" program is a year-round opportunity (although popular during the fall of students' senior year) where colleges invite potential students to their campus for a few days to take a tour, learn about their programs, hear from current students, and much more. Colleges and universities often times will pay for your flight, meals, and overnight hotel expenses as they aim to recruit diverse students to their campus (i.e. first-generation, low-income, and students of color). This is a great opportunity to get to know if you actually want to leave your home since the program is FREE and it is only a few days often Friday through Sunday).

Aside from completing the program's application, each program has its additional application components. Below, you can find a few common items you will want to have ready as part of the application process. Thoroughly review the program's website for a full list of those items.

1.Copy of an unofficial/official high school transcript.

- Speak with your counselor or college adviser for support to obtain a digital copy of your transcript that you can email or upload into the application.

2. Copy of your resume

- Talk to your counselor or college adviser to create a resume that highlights some of your skills, awards (academic or extracurricular), volunteer experience, extracurricular activities, and any unpaid/paid work. Your resume shows the college your involvement outside of school hours. Click here for a helpful resource to start your resume.

3. A short essay

- Some programs can expect you to submit a short essay so they can get to know you, your interest, and why you are applying to their fly-in program. Although each program has its own essay prompt, here are a few prompts that you can practice answering so that you can get a head start with a few drafts that you can use when you apply. Make sure to get drafts revised. Click here for a great resource to help you with the essay/short response.

a. Why are you interested in participating in this program?

b. What is your favorite high school course and why?

c. What is your future career and how do you think our college can help you achieve that?

d. What is one thing that you would like to change in your school or community?

e. Tell us about a hardship you overcame or an achievement you have completed.

Discover Swarthmore, held each fall, is our all-expenses-paid overnight fly-in program for high-achieving high school seniors. Admissions pays for all transportation, meals, and on-campus housing expenses for students selected to attend one of these programs. Participants experience Swarthmore firsthand as they attend classes, stay with current students in our residence halls, eat in the dining hall, and go to campus events. Prospective students hear from faculty, staff, alumni, and current students through a series of panel discussions and informal conversations.

Aside from College Fly In opportunities, certain universities offer summer programs were students not only visit the college campus, but participate in college courses, research, or beginning with their college applications. Each university has a range of program to assist students with Most programs as offered in the summer since students are out for vacations and programs lengthens range from 2-3 weeks to 2 months. These opportunities are great for students to explore a possible college major or gain more experience in a particular subject you are currently involved. Although the program might seem rigorous, they are designed to give you a feel of college life, expose you to college academics and to network with others with the hope to feel like you belong in college. Connect with your counselor or college advisor to starting planning your summer plans, TODAY!!!

The Instagram Teen Co-design Lab is focused on designing ways to make social media more supportive from the product development side. The youth scholars will get to work with actual Instagram product designers. A secondary goal is to give the scholars a chance to meet designers and learn more about pathways into tech careers. Students will be paid for their time. This program is funded by Instagram and USC.

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Stanford Summer Humanities Institute allows rising high school juniors and seniors to dive deep into the humanities and explore rich fields of inquiry that are rarely taught at the high school level. During the week, Stanford Summer Humanities Institute residential staff plan a variety of workshops and fun activities. Workshop topics may include: equity and inclusion, a faculty career path panel, a discussion with the Stanford Office of Undergraduate Admission, and wellness coaching. Recreational activities may include board games, pick-up sports, and walks around campus.

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COSMOS is an intensive four-week summer residential program for students who have demonstrated an aptitude for academic and professional careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Talented and motivated students completing grades 8-12 have the opportunity to work with renowned faculty, researchers, and scientists in state-of-the-art facilities while exploring advanced STEM topics far beyond the courses usually offered in California high schools. Through challenging curricula that are both hands-on and lab intensive, COSMOS fosters its students’ interests, skills, and awareness of educational and career options in STEM fields. UC campuses include UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Cruz.

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The Pathways to Health Careers Academy (PHCA) is a year long academic enrichment program for 10th - 12th grade students interested in improving community health. PHCA was developed to establish a unique experience to prepare students to pursue careers in the healthcare professions.

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The cornerstone of The Hidden Genius Project is our award-winning Intensive Immersion Program. This FREE, 15- month, cohort-based training program provides Black males in high school with upwards of 800 hours of holistic, trauma/healing-informed, high-touch mentorship and intensive training that seeks to develop youth into strong and responsible leaders equipped with coding and entrepreneurial skills, who can identify and develop tech-enabled solutions to address society’s most compelling challenges.

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At USC Viterbi's SHINE students can join a USC Viterbi professor's research team for seven weeks to discover how engineering addresses our real world problems in various fields including biomedicine, robotics, aerospace and more. Each student works with an assigned professor as well as a mentor (Ph.D. student or post-doctoral researcher) dedicated to training that student in experimental lab work or computational research – learning by doing not by studying. Each student works on authentic, immersive lab projects within their choice of cutting-edge research in order to learn through experience, transforming good students into confident, capable contributors to high-impact research.

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SIMR is an 8-week summer internship program open to high school juniors and seniors. The program consists of hands-on research under the direct guidance of a one-on-one mentor at a top class lab within the Institutes of Medicine at Stanford University as well as select departments. Students applying to the program can choose from our eight areas of research (institutes). After being accepted, they are then assigned to a specific institute based on their choices. To learn more about each institute and the research involved, click on the links to the department websites below.

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Summer TUTTI is an 8-day residential summer high school intensive in dance, music, musical theatre, and theatre. At Summer TUTTI, students live and learn with peers from across the disciplines and across the country. They’ll deepen their skills and talents in their chosen area while exploring new ways of making art, guided by Denison professors as well as nationally-acclaimed professional artists and ensembles, Third Coast Percussion, string quartet ETHEL, and members from Available Light Theatre.

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The Turner UCLA Allied Health Internship is implemented by the UCLA Community Engagement Program, in partnership with Bobby and Lauren Turner, to provide learning opportunities for high school students and recent graduates in finding out more about careers in the entry-level, allied health professions. The one week long, summer internship program is designed to address workforce shortages and offers career education for students from under-resourced communities who express interest in learning about health care career opportunities. For our students interested in pursuing careers in healthcare, we offer a range of shadowing opportunities from entry-level, clinical and administrative positions. We want to highlight rewarding careers in healthcare that do not require traditional four-year college education or medical school.

The Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement is a four-week summer intensive academy for 26 talented high school students. Students are exposed to the equivalent of first-year college-level courses and develop a rich conceptual understanding and practice of the necessary role that media communications and journalism play in fashioning civic-minded thought leaders and innovators. The students are introduced to USC Annenberg’s undergraduate programs and services, as well as possible careers in media and journalism. They have opportunities to meet the school's innovative scholars who are advancing issues of race, gender, and ethnicity in communication and journalism communities of practice.

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The Experience Berkeley Program for High School Students (EBHS) is a free 10-month program that provides Black, Latinx, & Native American rising high school seniors with mentors, tools, and resources to complete a competitive UC college application and the opportunity to get a close, personal look at UC Berkeley. We are currently accepting applications for our 2022 Experience Berkeley Program! All applications must be completed and submitted by Sunday, March 29th, 2024 at 11:59pm.

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The PHPP program is a holistic 6-week Internship that supports underrepresented students pursuing health professions contributing to a diverse public health workforce. Eligible students would be rising 11th and 12th grades in high schools.

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Why apply as a junior? Being a College Prep Scholar is a notable distinction that shows our college partners that you are a competitive candidate for admission. In addition, your application will automatically carry over for the National College Match when you’re a senior, giving you a head start on applying for a full four-year scholarship to our college partners. College Prep Scholars are nearly five times more likely than other applicants to receive full four-year scholarships through the National College Match.

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Our program is targeted towards 9th–11th grade high school students. The goal of this program is to provide students with resources and encouragement to achieve higher education. It is a one-week hybrid program during the week of in April.

• Days 1-4 consist of various workshops done through Zoom, including a motivational speaker, financial aid and scholarships, A-G requirements, and mental health.

• Day 5 consists of an in-person visit to UCSB, where transportation to and from the campus is provided. Throughout the day, students will take a tour, experience a mock lecture, and attend informative workshops.

Our goal is to encourage students from these underrepresented high schools to attend our university alongside other universities by educating them on the resources and requirements to apply to universities.

Thinking of a career as a coder, game developer, designer, or robotics engineer? Then start with the experience of a world-class program like the Naval Academy’s Summer STEM Program. STEM is all about exploring, creating, building, and making things better, and at our Summer STEM Program, you’ll do just that. You’ll work with students from all over the country as you test your problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration skills.

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Due 3/4 - Columbia University Pre-College Programs

Due 3/29 - Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute

Due 3/11 - Carleton College Pre-College Programs

Due 3/31 - Organization of Latino Actuaries Academic Scholarship

Due 4/1 - Northwestern University: College Preparation Program

Due 4/15 - Boston University: Summer Programs for Pre-College Students

Due 4/15 - Missouri University of Science & Technology Summer Camps

Due 5/1 - University of Wisconsin Madison: Badger Summer Scholars

Due 5/1 - St. John’s College: Summer Academy

Due 5/1 - UMass @ Amherst Pre College and Research Programs

Due 5/9 - Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholars Program

Due 5/10- Brown Pre-College Program

Kollab Youth ensures our Los Angeles County youth have the skills and knowledge they need to contribute to the global economy. Cultivating resourcefulness as a skill prepares young people for jobs that may not yet exist; in fact, the more resourceful they are, the more likely the next generation will be to create their own jobs - and companies that will create jobs for others. Mentorship is a significant part of the personal and professional journey for our youth.

Contact your school's Higher Education Coordinator or visit your school's College Center.

• Centennial HS: Mrs. Smith-Tyner sharsmith@compton.k12.ca.us
• Compton Early College: Mr. Hernandez omahernandez@compton.k12.ca.us
• Compton HS: Mr. Cruz jcruz@compton.k12.ca.us
• Dominguez High: Mr. Ramirez riramirez@compton.k12.ca.us