| Application deadline | Unconfirmed — check official site | Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Cost | Unconfirmed — check official site | Last year's cycle (2026): $1,050; 2027: Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Financial aid | Unconfirmed — check official site | Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Expenses and aid conditions | Unconfirmed — check official site | Last year's cycle (2026): Lunch and snacks: $0. Included in the historical 2026 tuition. Dietary options and 2027 coverage are not stated.; 2027: Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Stipend or pay | Last year's cycle (2026): 2026 Summer I or Summer II fellowship: $4,000; 2027: Unconfirmed — check official site | Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Eligibility | Grades 10–12 when applying; check the provider's rules for graduating seniors | Grades 9–12; Grade timing: Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Additional eligibility | Residency: Must be able to participate at an available Project SEED site or eligible virtual project; in-person site selection considers a safe daily commute; Requirement: Document household annual income at or below 300% of applicable Federal Poverty Guidelines; Requirement: Provide an accepted tax, free/reduced-lunch, SNAP/WIC, TRIO, or SAT/ACT fee-waiver eligibility document; Requirement: Preferably be a current high-school sophomore, junior, or senior; the 2026 cycle also allowed graduating seniors; Requirement: Have completed at least one high-school chemistry course and demonstrate interest in science or chemistry; Requirement: Obtain parent/guardian permission if under 18; Requirement: Be available for the full project, normally at least eight weeks and about 40 hours weekly for in-person research; Requirement: Meet the local site's commute, safety, lab, onboarding, and schedule requirements; Exclusion: Applicants who cannot document the financial-eligibility requirement; Exclusion: Applicants without completed high-school chemistry; Exclusion: Applicants unable to commit to the selected site's full schedule or safely commute for an in-person placement; Exclusion: Assuming prior lab experience is required or guarantees selection; Exclusion: Assuming application guarantees a placement, preferred lab, virtual option, $4,000 next-cycle amount, conference trip, publication, college credit, recommendation, scholarship, admission advantage, or job | Residency: Kent Place and non-Kent Place students; no citizenship or geographic-residency restriction was stated for Summer 2026; Requirement: Be a rising ninth-, tenth-, eleventh-, or twelfth-grade student in the program summer; Requirement: Be prepared to attend in person for the entire five-day 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. course and field trip; Requirement: Participate respectfully in discussion of sensitive medical, ethical, religious, legal, family, disability, identity, life-and-death, and public-policy questions; Requirement: Complete the live registration, payment, guardian permission, health, emergency, dietary, field-trip, media, conduct, accessibility, and pickup/drop-off forms; Requirement: Read and analyze cases, identify stakeholders, apply ethical principles, listen to competing views, and support claims with reasons and evidence; Exclusion: The public one-week course is not limited to Kent Place students and is coed; Exclusion: It is separate from the grades 10-12 selective yearlong Bioethics Project and its mandatory summer component; Exclusion: Registration does not confer Bioethics Scholar status, Georgetown Kennedy Institute mentoring, a research topic, publication, or symposium presentation; Exclusion: The course is educational and does not authorize medical, legal, clinical-ethics, religious, or public-policy practice; Exclusion: Participation does not guarantee academic credit, a grade, certificate, recommendation, internship, research authorship, college admission benefit, or future Kent Place enrollment; Exclusion: Exact 2027 eligibility and sensitive-content, accessibility, health, supervision, and field-trip policies are not announced |
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| Session dates or duration | Catalog terms: 8–10 weeks; 2027: Unconfirmed — check official site | Last year's cycle (2026): Starts July 27, 2026; Ends July 31, 2026; 1 week; 2027: Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Format | Hybrid | In person |
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| Housing and supervision | Non-residential. Supervision and housing details: Unconfirmed — check official site | Non-residential. Supervision and housing details: Unconfirmed — check official site |
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| Location | Participating university, government, and industry research sites; virtual projects may also be offered | Summit, Kent Place School, 42 Norwood Avenue, Summit, New Jersey 07901; historical 2026 field-trip site not published |
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| Selection and application | Selection: Local coordinators select among financially and academically eligible applicants based on performance, science interest, full-summer availability, site capacity/budget, safe commute, and mentor/project fit. ACS publishes no single current acceptance rate. | Selection: The 2026 page offered public registration for eligible rising high-school students and did not publish an application rubric, GPA threshold, recommendations, interview, applicant count, acceptance rate, or cohort size. Capacity and 2027 enrollment method remain unknown. |
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| Official sources | Source 1 · checked 2026-08-20Source 2 · checked 2026-08-20Source 3 · checked 2026-08-20 | Source 1 · checked 2026-08-20Source 2 · checked 2026-08-20Source 3 · checked 2026-08-20 |
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