<p>The "First Team" bios, and the colleges they are attending:</p>
<p>Harvard: 7
Stanford: 2
Princeton: 2
Yale: 2
Caltech: 2
MIT: 1
Duke: 1
Davidson: 1
Brown: 1
Embry-Riddle: 1</p>
<p>Now that I'm actually going to Harvard, it's really nice to be fed Harvard propaganda.</p>
<p>You will probably also find a similarly overwhelming majority of Intel STS finalists going to Harvard. A friend of mine was a finalist last year and said, "It was like Harvard Orientation weekend."</p>
<p>Darn, Byerly. I had finally hoped to beat you in announcing some great Harvard news!</p>
<p>I wonder if you get the same interesting e-mails from the same adcom that I get them from. :)</p>
<p>... i can't believe i'm going to school and competing with these people.</p>
<p>A tidbit for you, Northstarmom: "up to" 30 from the waitlist this year, when all is said and done.</p>
<p>So you won't be #1... big deal.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>... i can't believe i'm going to school and competing with these people.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Don't worry about it, Princetonwannabe. My D is finishing her freshman year at H, and her roommate was one of these amazing USAToday Allstars last year. And the roommate seems just like any other regular kid - very friendly, very nice. She does about as well in her classes as all the Harvard students, including D. You are not really "competing" with these kids unless you choose to view it that way. D's roommate is very helpful and cooperative, not competitive.</p>
<p>thanks,</p>
<p>i didn't mean to make it sound like a competition. but i was so awed by their accomplishment that i just can't believe we're going to the same school, studying in the same rooms, and living together. i just don't want to look like someone who doesn't belong there..</p>
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<blockquote> <p>i just don't want to look like someone who doesn't belong there..<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>That was my point. You won't look like that at all. The USA Today kids look just like all the other H kids - interesting, smart, and passionate. You will fit right in.</p>
<p>Fantastic accomplishments, but it seems to me that for most of that list they just went down the list of winners/runners up at the major science fairs to pick their winners as if that was the be all and end all of acheivements. Granted, their were some non-science fair people, but with the recent articles on the politics of science fairs and that fantastic MIT "research paper prank," there's definately more to accomplishments than "developed (insert science prog). That and I'll admit a bit of jealousy, as I had never heard of Intel/Seimens before this board, so take that for what you will.</p>