Visit the AAAS Web site to download an application. Applicants must be able to demonstrate excellent academics, exceptional leadership potential, financial need and impact their communities through activities and service to others. Candidates must be pursuing full-time undergraduate degrees. It's a six week classroom-based science enrichment offering. This program, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers intensive science enrichment and MCAT preparation for premedical students.
Students attend weekly seminars and workshops, as well as social and cultural events.
The application deadline is March 1, 2001. Applicants will be accepted on a rolling admissions basis. The program will annually provide 10 talented, economically disadvantaged college seniors or recent graduates with a 9-week summer college internship in a congressional office with major health policy responsibilities. Candidates must be in their senior year of undergraduate study or have graduated within the last twelve months from an accredited U.S. college or university. The program is designed for students sincerely interested in pursuing graduate studies, preferably the Ph.D. degree.