COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCIENCE HONORS PROGRAM - Current 9th-11th Graders

          COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE HONORS PROGRAM:

This program, now in its sixty-first year, offers enrichment 
courses in science and mathematics on Saturday mornings throughout the 
school year to 700 students who have been selected from approximately 
750 high schools in the metropolitan New York area. Next year's SHP will 
have openings for 400 new students. Applicants must now be in the 11th, 
10th, or 9th grade and should have a strong interest and exceptional 
ability in science and mathematics. 

The program uses an online application process which students can access 
on the Columbia University SHP web page:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/shp/apply.html

Each applicant will be asked to do the following:
(1) Submit an online application.
(2) Request that the high school mail an official transcript directly to 
the SHP.
(3) Request that a teacher, guidance counselor, or principal submit an 
online recommendation letter.
(4) Take a three-hour entrance examination at Columbia on April 6 or 
April 27, 2019.

The deadline for the SHP receipt of student online applications is 
February 28, 2019.