Value of Published Research Paper Hello, I have been meaning to ask this question for a while now, but basically last summer (10th-11th grade summer), I went to a university for an internship, and eventually was co-author of a research paper which I wrote some programs for during the internship. The thing is, the only reason I got the internship was because my dad has been childhood friends with the dean of computer science at the university, and the stuff published in the research paper seems way too complex for a high schooler. However, the thing I contributed to the paper was that I wrote  some programs which basically organized the data already found by the Ph.D. students under the dean. My question is, will colleges find this very suspicious and will it actually count and be helpful towards my college application? Thanks in advance