Summer Research Internship Application

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

Please fill in the application form. The completed form must be accompanied by:

  • a current transcript (Fall 2012)
  • a personal essay
  • be signed by a parent/guardian
  • be signed by a teacher/advisor
  • a letter of recommendation from a teacher/advisor
  • application fee of $50 (money order only, made payable to The Cooper Union). This fee will be returned to you if you are not accepted to the program. If you are invited to the program and you accept then later decline, the application fee is forfeited.

These materials should be forwarded to:
Susan Dorsey
Director, Outreach Program
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

Complete applications should be submitted as early as possible before the deadline.

We will not review incomplete applications.

 

APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Postmarked March 8, 2013

Successful applicants must attend an Open House at the Cooper Union on April 26 at 3:30 (details will follow).

Successful applicants must attend the full program. No exceptions will be made to start late or finish early.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.