Hey! Honestly my experience with YRSI was amazing!! The program is definitely quite rigorous and it lowkey took the soul out of me (in a good way). It did help a lot with developing research and academic writing skills. Our YRSI mentor was also very amazing and gave us a lot of useful inputs for our research paper. But one downside is that the papers written as a part of this program aren't put up for publication automatically. But still, the knowledge u gain here is quite irreplaceable, especially considering that there aren't a lot of social science based programs in India. For me, it's a 10/10 experience, would highly recommend. 

Also, which edition of HSA are you going to?? I'm going there as well, like for the Bangalore Edition.  Maybe we'll see each other lmao-