UC San Diego doesn't publish an acceptance rate for REHS, the Research Experience for High School Students run by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).

Princeton doesn't publish an acceptance rate for the Laboratory Learning Program.

The Jackson Laboratory doesn't publish an acceptance rate for its Summer Student Program, but its own numbers point to about 5%: 30 students from 575 applicants in 2025.

Fred Hutch doesn't publish an acceptance rate for its Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP), but the program calls itself highly competitive

Updated: 2nd November, 2026 TL;DR If you love math, you have one big question to answer: can you enter? The Math Prize for Girls is a free, in-person contest at MIT for girls in 11th grade or below who live in the U.S. or Canada. You qualify through an AMC 10 or AMC 12 score taken in November, and the 2026 contest was held October 11. The 2027 dates aren't posted yet. If you want to take math into research, look at the Lumiere Research Scholar Program. It pairs you 1:1 with a

SMYSP is a free, five-week Stanford summer program for high school juniors, and it doesn't publish an acceptance rate.

The Wolfram High School Summer Research Program doesn't publish an acceptance rate.

UF's acceptance rate is 19.8% for the Class of 2030: 19,012 of 95,986 applicants got an offer.

Barnard's acceptance rate was 10.1% for fall 2025 entry, with 1,048 admits from 10,426 applicants, per its latest Common Data Set.

Northwestern doesn't publish an acceptance rate for its pre-college programs. The School of Professional Studies runs the on-campus tracks and says admission is limited and rolling.

Tufts doesn't publish a Pre-College acceptance rate, so there's no single percentage to chase.

Duke Pre-College doesn't publish an acceptance rate, and its official page lists eligibility rules instead of a selective cutoff.

Georgetown doesn't publish an acceptance rate for its pre-college programs, and it admits students on a rolling basis, so there's no set percentage to beat.

Columbia's Pre-College Summer Program offers residential, commuter, and online courses for rising 9th through 12th graders.

Predatory journals collect fees or papers without real peer review. They often target first-time authors, like high school students, with fast-publication promises and flattering emails.

The Davidson THINK Summer Institute is a three-week residential program for ages 13 to 16, and Davidson doesn't publish an acceptance rate.

NYU SPARC is a two-week robotics summer course at NYU Tandon, and NYU doesn't publish an acceptance rate for it.

The Penn Medicine Summer Program doesn't publish an acceptance rate, so any percentage you see online is a guess.

The National Youth Science Camp doesn't publish an acceptance rate. What you can count on is the quota: each state and Washington, D.C., sends just two delegates, picked by a state selection coordinator.

Updated: 20th October, 2026 TL;DR A science fair board needs a title, question, background, hypothesis, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, and references, arranged left to right in the order of your investigation. Judges notice three things first: your title and question, your results graphs, and how easily they can scan the layout. A clean board helps at a fair like Regeneron ISEF, but it can't replace strong data. If you want a stronger project to put on it, look at