Offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Beaver Works Summer Institute is an intensive pre-college summer program, running roughly for 160 hours in a four-week period.

The latest official SSP acceptance rate is 16%. SSP reported 3,739 completed applications, a 16% admission rate, and 588 enrolled students in 2025.

The Ross Mathematics Program is one of the most competitive math-based programs. According to the latest data collected by the program, it accepted about 15 percent of its applicants, all of whom had showcased their mathematical expertise through their work in the application problem set.