<p>Did you apply?<br>
High School or college age?
Does anyone every get in at age 16/17?
Have you heard stats of people accepted last year?</p>
<p>Per ASEE, numbers of apps so far (one week before deadline) is running pretty much the same as last year. Last year was 1300 apps for 250 places</p>
<p>Bump.........</p>
<p>what exactly is this internship for?</p>
<p>DOD Office of Naval Research Student Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP) offer 8 weeks of mentoring in 15 ONR research facilitates around the country. $1500 stipend, no housing. Deadline was 1/26/09. 250 slots; last year about 1200 applicants.</p>
<p>Administered by American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). </p>
<p>Some slots are open to 15 year olds, but they must compete with older High School and College. Must be US Citizen.</p>
<p>I got in to SPAWAR :D</p>
<p>I got into SPAWAR as well. But I have to wait for the official letter to arrive from ASEE.
Anyone else?</p>
<p>Per just received email from asee, results from lab are due back to asee by 4/15; asee will send them out as soon as possible. </p>
<p>Anyone heard from newport or caderock?</p>
<p>Those who were contacted directly by spawar, what were your stats and year in school? Are you local or will you need to find housing?</p>
<p>My stats</p>
<p>Current year in school: Sophomore
School type: Private
Classes at school: 3 APs so far. (school does not allow too many APs for sophomores)
Classes at college: UCSD: 2 classes (undergrad level- computer prog.)
Research exp: 2 years at a private lab and ongoing. On track for publishing in Junior/Senior year.
Science fair: None.
GPA: 4.4 as of now.
Extracurricular activities: all science related, leadership roles in many. Some activities at the national level.
Local to SPAWAR.
Got phone interviewed by multiple scientists at SPAWAR and was offered positions at all of those labs. Eventually picked one that interested me the most.</p>
<p>Lets post stats for SEAP applicants.</p>
<p>Yikes…I hope that they take the school one attends into account. </p>
<p>D’s boarding school does not allow any APs in sophOmore year and only two in junior (unless you are a staff kid.) School does not allow grade inflation; hasn’t had a 4.0/4.0 in 2 years. School has no science or engineering ECs, but D attended engineering CTY in summer. As a boarding school, zero opportunity for research.</p>
<p>uh oh I haven’t heard a word back from SEAP… I think I might have messed up the application b/c I only sent in 1 recommendation letter… how many did you guys send?</p>
<p>The application only required one recommendation. The person writing the recommendation had difficulty uploading the recommendation due to file format issues, so D quietly asked a second person to send a recommendation to double her chances that something would get through. </p>
<p>Only some labs contact or interview by phone. Most just leave the responses to ASEE,
which does not have the info yet. </p>
<p>Vanillasky123 - what labs did you apply for? What are your stats?</p>
<p>I realize that they’re two completely different programs, but what do you think is better, going to the NJ governor’s school for the sciences or to this. I realize that the acceptance/rejection letters have not yet come back for this, but is it worth considering over gov school?</p>
<p>I think that prioritizing only sets you up for being disappointed that you didn’t get into one program over another. Given the competitive nature of prep schools, summer programs and colleges, you will save yourself a lot of heart ache by applying to programs that you can live with, and then only start comparing once acceptances are in hand.</p>
<p>PrakStar, which labs did you apply for?</p>
<p>The association of Engineering Education did a great job of getting the reject letters out to applicants this year. Last year they did not here until the second week of May. This year they distributed emails only one week after receiving the information from the labs. </p>
<p>Applications went from 1200 last year to 1800. </p>
<p>Does anyone have a sense if the hires were all local, or was the competition truely nation wide.</p>
<p>Here’s the bottom line. If you had connections, you got in. Only a very small percentage of people who didn’t have connections got in and they must have been super smart. Three people from my math,science, and computer science magnet program of 48 students got in. One has a mom working at a lab, the other has a father who is head of one of the SEAP laboratories, and the third plays football and talked about going to the US Naval Academy to play sports or something on his application essays. Its about who you know, not what you know. !!! A bunch of my friends and I didn’t get in and some of my friends were definitely more qualifed than those people who got in.</p>
<p>i got in, my stats are up there: aybose2011</p>
<p>contrary to your statements, poly, i did not know anyone…i wouldnt consider myself exceptionally qualified (i havent even taken calculus yet!)…what i did that seemed to help was contacting the people at the SPAWAR center directly…i emailed the people, letting them know i was applying, so when i sent my application, they looked for mine. while there is some truth in that you have to have connections, you can always make these yourself!</p>
<p>Ditto aybose…</p>
<p>Just submitting the application may not be enough for the unconnected student.</p>
<p>Sending resume and supplemental materials directly to lab, before application.</p>
<p>Sending updated awards announcement in February (after the deadline)</p>
<p>Sending glowing spring term report card showing improved GPA.</p>
<p>Sending, with cover letter, announcement of a science award.</p>
<p>Sending to the lab in all about 5 letters updating, inquiring, and providing additional materials from January to MAY (after initial ‘no’) resulted in selection of unconnected, out-of-area student being awarded an alternate position. </p>
<p>Just keep telling them you are interested and why they should hire you. But of course have a plan B for your summer in case nothing comes through.</p>
<p>Could you elarborate on your science leadership and extracurricular activities and which private company you were doing research with?</p>