[nabs-l] Princeton University Summer Journalism Program, Summer 2010, Application Process [1 Attachment]
Elizabeth
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Sun Oct 18 03:21:26 UTC 2009
Wow! This sounds like a great oppurtunity. I would apply for it myself except for the fact that they only allow high school students to apply for this program. Hopefully others on the list can take advantage of this program. Good luck to anyone who decides to apply.
Elizabeth
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> Subject: [Brookland] Princeton University Summer Journalism Program, Summer
> 2010, Application Process [1 Attachment]
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> The Princeton University Summer Journalism Program
>
>
> Dear School Administrator / Teacher,
>
> If you are a teacher, we ask that you encourage your students to apply to
> this all-expenses-paid program at Princeton University. If you are an
> administrator, we ask that you help us spread the word by publishing an
> announcement to teachers or other administrators who might know students who
> would be interested in applying. See below for more information.
>
> We are writing to inform you about an all-expenses-paid summer program for
> high school student journalists from low-income backgrounds that will take
> place for 10 days in August on the campus of Princeton University. The
> program is entering its ninth year; since 2002, more than 165 students from
> high schools across the country have been selected to participate in the
> program. They were taught by journalists from The New York Times, The
> Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The New
> Republic and The New Yorker; they covered Yankees, Mets, Jets and Liberty
> games and held a press conference with New Jersey's secretary of state; they
> met with Princeton University's president and dean of admissions; they
> received counseling on their college applications from our staff, which
> consists of Princeton University alumni and undergraduates; and they
> published their own newspaper. We hope that you will consider nominating
> some of your students to participate in this exciting program for aspiring
> young journalists.
>
> Below is a quick list of instructions and pointers for having your students
> fill out the applications:
>
> Please feel free to nominate as many students as you have who are
> interested. We will happily accept several students from the same school, so
> there is no need to worry about your own students competing for slots in the
> program.
>
> The application process will take place in two parts. For the first part,
> students should fill out the attached application, and then email it to
> sjpapplication@ <mailto:sjpapplication at gmail.com> gmail.com as a Microsoft
> Word attachment. (If the student does not have access to Microsoft Word, the
> student should just copy and paste the text of the application into an
> email.) Before emailing us the application, students should name the
> document using the following format: Lastname.Firstname.doc. So, if the
> student's name is Mary Jones, the title of the document will be
> Jones.Mary.doc. In addition, the student should type his or her name and
> high school in the body of the email and put only the name of the Word
> document (e.g., Jones.Mary.doc) in the subject line of the email. We must
> receive the application by 11:59 p.m. ET on February 5, 2010. No extensions
> will be given for any reason.
>
> In the second round of the application process, finalists will be
> interviewed by the program directors-either in person or over the phone-and
> they will be asked to provide printed copies of the following items via U.S.
> mail: an official transcript; the first page of the 2008 (or 2009, if
> available) income-tax return form (the 1040 or 1040EZ form) of their
> custodial parent(s)/guardian(s), or a signed statement by their
> parent(s)/guardian(s) saying that their income is below the level at which
> they would be required to file income tax returns; a recommendation letter
> from a teacher; and clips from their high school newspaper or other
> publication (optional).
>
> To be eligible for the program, students must meet the following
> qualifications:
> - They must currently be juniors in high school.
> - They must live in the continental United States.
> - They must have at least an unweighted 3.5 grade point average (out of
> 4.0).
> - They must have an interest in journalism.
> - The combined income of their custodial parent(s)/guardian(s) plus child
> support payments, if any, must not exceed $45,000.
> Note: This program is for students from low-income backgrounds. If the
> combined income of the custodial parent(s)/guardian(s) plus child support
> payments, if any, exceeds $45,000 and a student still wishes to apply, he or
> she may attach a letter explaining why his or her family qualifies as
> financially under-resourced.
>
> If you have questions, the best way to reach us is via email at
> sjp at princeton. <mailto:sjp at princeton.edu> edu. Please note that applications
> should be sent to sjpapplication@ <mailto:sjpapplication at gmail.com>
> gmail.com, which is a GMAIL address. Questions should be sent to
> sjp at princeton. <mailto:sjp at princeton.edu> edu, which is a PRINCETON address.
>
> All application materials-as well as additional information about the
> program-are available at www.princeton. <http://www.princeton.edu/sjp>
> edu/sjp.
>
> A final word: We know that the process of applying to any selective program
> can be stressful, not to mention a lot of work-for students as well as their
> teachers. But, over the years, the students we have had come through our
> program have told us that, ultimately, the work they put into their
> application was worth it.
>
> For students without access to Microsoft Word, we are pasting in the
> application text below. Thank you.
>
>
> The Princeton University Summer Journalism Program
>
> 220 Nassau Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 www.princeton.
> <http://www.princeton.edu/sjp> edu/sjp
>
>
> Dear Applicant:
>
> Thank you for your interest in the Princeton University Summer Journalism
> Program. We're looking forward to reading your application and, if you are
> selected for the program, getting to know you this summer.
>
> What is the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program? We welcome about
> 20 high school students from low-income backgrounds every summer to
> Princeton's campus for an intensive, 10-day seminar on journalism. After the
> program ends, counselors stay in touch with students to help guide them
> through the college admissions process. Counselors assist students in
> preparing for standardized tests, determining an appropriate list of
> colleges to apply to, and filling out applications and financial aid forms.
> The program's goal is to diversify college and professional newsrooms by
> encouraging outstanding students from low-income backgrounds to pursue
> careers in journalism. All expenses, including students' travel costs to and
> from Princeton, are paid for by the program. Students who attend the program
> come from across the country. The program will enter its ninth summer in
> 2010.
>
> What is the program like? Classes at the program are taught by reporters and
> editors from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The
> New Yorker, CNN and ABC News, among other media outlets. Students tour the
> Times and CNN; cover a professional sports event (in past years, a Yankees,
> Mets, Jets or Liberty game); cover news events in the Princeton area; film
> and produce a TV segment; and report, write, edit and design their own
> newspaper, The Princeton Summer Journal, which is published on the program's
> last day. The program is also designed to give students a taste of what life
> is like at one of the best colleges in the country-students live on campus
> and eat in one of the university's cafeterias-and to prepare them to apply
> to top schools. Students meet with Princeton's top professors as well as the
> school's president and its dean of admissions. Students attend seminars on
> every aspect of the college admissions process. They also take a practice
> SAT and attend an SAT class taught by Princeton Review. After students
> return home, program staff remain in contact with them, assisting them
> during the college application process and helping them to apply for
> journalism internships once they are in college.
>
> What have our students accomplished? More than 165 students have graduated
> from our program during the past eight years, and many return each summer to
> serve as mentors to our current students. We are proud of their academic and
> journalistic accomplishments. Four of our alumni are currently enrolled at
> Princeton. Others have gone on to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Columbia,
> Cornell, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, Williams, Amherst,
> Middlebury, Georgetown, Bowdoin, the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins,
> New York University and many other selective schools. Their work has been
> published in college newspapers across the country, including The Daily
> Princetonian, The Yale Daily News, The Brown Daily Herald, The Columbia
> Spectator, The Cornell Daily Sun and The Bowdoin Orient. Our alumni have
> also landed jobs or internships at The New York Times, The New Republic, The
> Philadelphia Daily News, NBC and CBS, among other outlets. Alumni
> reflections on the program can be found here.
>
> Who is eligible? This program is intended for low-income students with
> excellent academic records who are committed to pursuing a career in
> journalism. To apply for the program, you must meet the following
> qualifications:
>
> - You must currently be a junior in high school.
> - You must live in the continental United States.
> - You must have at least an unweighted 3.5 grade point average (out of 4.0).
> - You must have an interest in journalism.
> - The combined income of your custodial parent(s)/guardian(s) plus child
> support payments, if any, must not exceed $45,000.
>
> Note: This program is for students from under-resourced financial
> backgrounds. If the combined income of your custodial parent(s)/guardian(s)
> plus child support payments, if any, exceeds $45,000 and you still wish to
> apply, you may attach a statement explaining why you believe your family
> qualifies as financially under-resourced.
>
> How to apply. The application process consists of two rounds. For the first
> round, fill out the application below, and then email it to sjpapplication@
> <mailto:sjpapplication at gmail.com> gmail.com as a Microsoft Word attachment.
> (If you do not have Microsoft Word, please just paste the text of your
> application into the body of the email.) Before emailing us the application,
> please name the document using the following format: Lastname.Firstname.doc.
> So, if your name is Mary Jones, the title of your document will be
> Jones.Mary.doc. In addition, type your name, the name of your high school
> (including the city and state location) and the email address where you
> would like to be contacted in the body of your email and put only the name
> of the Word document (e.g., Jones.Mary.doc) in the subject line of the
> email. We must receive your application by 11:59 p.m. ET on February 5,
> 2010. No extensions will be given for any reason.
>
> After we receive the first round of applications, we will select a group to
> proceed to the second round. If you are selected for the second round, the
> program directors will arrange to interview you-either by phone or in
> person-and we will also ask you to mail us printed copies of the following
> documents:
>
> - Your official high school transcript
>
> - The first page of the income-tax return form (the 1040 or 1040EZ form) for
> the calendar year 2008 of your custodial parent(s)/guardian(s); or a signed
> statement by your parent(s)/guardian(s) saying that their income is below
> the level at which they would be required to file income tax returns. (If
> the form for calendar year 2009 is available, you may send that instead.)
>
> - A recommendation letter from a teacher
>
> - Clips from your high school newspaper or other publication (if you have
> them)
>
> Note: From the time they are notified that they have made it to the second
> round, applicants will have about two weeks to mail these items to us.
>
> Here are some tips about the application process:
>
> 1. When sending us your application or when contacting us for any reason,
> use an email address to which you will have regular access throughout the
> application process. Do not change your email address or stop checking email
> in the middle of the application process.
>
> 2. Send all applications to sjpapplication@
> <mailto:sjpapplication at gmail.com> gmail.com - please note that this is a
> GMAIL address. Send all questions about the program to sjp at princeton.
> <mailto:sjp at princeton.edu> edu - please note that this is a PRINCETON
> address.
>
> 3. Proofread and edit your application carefully before submitting.
>
> 4. Most importantly, this program is for students who are interested in
> journalism-who are planning to write for their college newspapers and who
> are at least strongly considering an eventual career in journalism. Every
> year, we receive applications from students who are smart and talented-but
> who are not really interested in journalism. Apply to this program only if
> you are serious about pursuing a career in journalism.
>
> A final word: We know that the process of applying to any selective program
> can be stressful, not to mention a lot of work. But, over the years, the
> students we have had come through our program have told us that, ultimately,
> the work they put into their application was worth it.
>
> The program directors are all looking forward to reading your application.
> If we can answer any question along the way, don't hesitate to contact us.
> The best way to reach us is at sjp at princeton. <mailto:sjp at princeton.edu>
> edu.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Program Staff
>
>
>
> THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SUMMER JOURNALISM PROGRAM
>
> APPLICATION FOR SUMMER 2010
> Please fill in the blanks below:
>
> Name:
>
> High School:
>
> Home Phone Number:
>
> Mobile Phone Number (if available):
>
> Street Address:
>
> Apartment Number:
>
> City:
>
> State:
>
> Zip Code:
>
> Email:
>
> Birth Date (Month, Date, Year):
>
>
>
> High school grade point average through end of the first semester of your
> junior year (on a 4.0 scale)
>
> (We want the aggregate GPA for high school and not just the GPA from the
> most recent semester alone.)
>
> Unweighted:
>
> Weighted:
>
>
>
> List all your extracurricular activities (both at school and outside it) in
> order of importance to you. Please do not use acronyms when listing your
> activities:
>
> 1.
>
> 2.
>
> 3.
>
> 4.
>
> 5.
>
> 6.
>
>
>
> Your favorite journalistic publication:
>
> Your favorite book:
>
> Your favorite movie:
>
> Your favorite quotation:
>
> Name one person you consider a hero:
>
>
>
> Please briefly write about your summer activities during the past three
> years. Please be specific with the exact name of the camp/program/employer
> and the dates of attendance/employment. Write two or three sentences about
> what you did.
>
>
>
>
> Name of Mother or Legal Guardian 1 (indicate relationship if Legal
> Guardian):
>
>
>
> Occupation:
>
> Employer:
>
> Education (type an "X" next to one of the following):
>
> a. high school degree
>
> b. some college
>
> c. associate's degree
>
> d. bachelor's degree
>
> e. graduate degree
>
> Name of college attended (if any):
>
> Degree/year:
>
> Name of graduate school attended (if any):
>
> Degree/year:
>
> Is this parent living (type "Yes" or "No"):
>
> Is this parent your legal guardian (type "Yes" or "No"):
>
>
>
> Name of Father or Legal Guardian 2 (indicate relationship if Legal
> Guardian):
>
>
>
> Occupation:
>
> Employer:
>
> Education (type an "X" next to one of the following):
>
> a. high school degree
>
> b. some college
>
> c. associate's degree
>
> d. bachelor's degree
>
> e. graduate degree
>
> Name of college attended (if any):
>
> Degree/year:
>
> Name of graduate school attended (if any):
>
> Degree/year:
>
> Is this parent living (type "Yes" or "No"):
>
> Is this parent your legal guardian (type "Yes" or "No"):
>
>
>
> Please list the names and ages of all your siblings, and indicate if they
> have attended a college:
>
>
>
> Name Age College (if any)
> Graduation Year
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Number of custodial parent(s)/guardian(s) (answer "one" or "two"):
>
>
>
> If you answered "one" above, write the total income from 2008 (or 2009, if
> available) of your parent/guardian here (this is the number that appears in
> the bottom right-hand corner of the first page of his or her 1040 or 1040EZ
> form):
>
>
>
> If you answered "two" above, do they file income taxes jointly or
> separately? (answer "jointly" or "separately"):
>
>
>
> If you answered "two" and "jointly" above, write the total income from 2008
> (or 2009, if available) of your parents/guardians here (this is the number
> that appears in the bottom right-hand corner of the first page of their 1040
> or 1040EZ form):
>
>
>
> If you answered "two" AND "separately" above, write the total income from
> 2008 (or 2009, if available) for each of your parents/guardians here (these
> are the numbers that appear in the bottom right-hand corners of the first
> pages of their 1040 or 1040EZ forms)
>
> Parent/guardian 1:
>
> Parent/guardian 2:
>
>
>
> If your parent(s)/guardian(s) receives child support from a non-custodial
> parent/guardian, state the amount per year of those child support payments:
>
>
>
> If your parent(s)/guardian(s) is not required to file income tax returns
> because his or her income is below the level at which he or she would be
> required to file an income tax return, please type an "X" here:
>
>
>
> Note: This program is for students from under-resourced financial
> backgrounds. If the combined income of your custodial parent(s)/guardian(s)
> plus child support payments, if any, exceeds $45,000, please include a brief
> statement here explaining why you believe your family qualifies as
> financially under-resourced:
>
>
>
>
> Essay 1: In about 150 words, tell us about a newspaper or magazine article
> you've read recently that impacted you deeply, and why it had an effect on
> you.
>
>
>
>
>
> Essay 2: In about 150 words, tell us why you are interested in pursuing
> journalism as a career.
>
>
>
>
> Article: Take an issue, a trend, a phenomenon, a group or an important
> person in your local community, and write an article about it, her or him.
> This is a chance for you to show off your skills as a journalist. Your
> article may take the form of a news piece, a feature story, a profile or an
> opinion piece-at the top of the article, please specify which type of
> article you are writing. It should be about 400 words in length.
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