<p>I know colleges such as MIT put a lot of focus on this type of stuff, such as STS, ISEF, Siemens, ect…</p>
<p>Although, much like Intel STS’s own selection process, they do not want to see a sort of born-again-scientist or something. They want to see that you have been involved in this type of stuff THROUGHOUT highschool and didn’t just start at the end of your sophmore year. Why else do you think STS made you put down a history of your award recieved/competitions entered. I had awards (ie. ISEF) every year, which probably helped me get semifinalist.</p>
<p>If you do Intel STS as a senior, can it help with college apps?
Can you do it as a junior? And if you get semifinalist or something, would that help?</p>
<p>Wow, please educate yourself before you come in here making pretentious and ignorant comments.</p>
<p>Yes, Intel doesn’t go to every single school to celebrate each semifinalist. You got that much right. But they do bring giant checks and balloons to a few select schools, usually ones with more than one semifinalist. </p>
<p>I’m guessing that Cido was telling the truth since I don’t think she’s the type to lie to gain the approval of random folks on the Internet, but she was the only semifinalist in her state. Hence the “usually” in your post, I guess…</p>
<p>All is forgiven. I apologize as well. It’s just natural to be sketchy at times, especially on a website like CC. Anyway. Where did you apply magnito?</p>
<p>andy: I applied early decision to UPenn, Wharton and was accepted so I’m done with the mess that is college apps :), how about you?</p>
<p>proletariat: I definitely suspect so. My project was a “behavioral/social science project” so technically it doesn’t even fall under the category of math/hard science… and I know the majority of Intel applicants do a bio/med/chem project, but not very many make it to semis/finals. Intel seems to favor a wide range of subjects – evident in the fact that many of the winning projects aren’t those with ridiculous scientific titles (at least compared to Siemens, etc)</p>
<p>5th place winner last year: “Your Children May Pay More Attention than You Think: The Link between Teens’ Perceptions of Parent Alcohol Use and Monitoring and Teen Alcohol Use and Acceptance”</p>
<p>One of this year’s semifinalists: “Adolescents Who Exercise Regularly Are Less Likely To Be Overweight or Obese”
I lold</p>
<p>^I noticed that one. I found it funny, too. You’d think they would have that correlation established by now.</p>
<p>Yay! Mine is a zoology project with a relatively simple title. I’m glad not all the projects are about the effects of the gene DKGO2294 on glycobastomycin production in glial cells.</p>
<p>haha so true … that’s what I like about Intel - they care about the person behind the project rather than just the person’s research. Good luck to everyone in the finals =)
Oh, and how did ur schools react to your semifinalist designation? Mine threw me a huge party it was pretty amazing!</p>
<p>someone asked earlier about whether intel calls people before finalists are announced.
yeah i heard that too. they either call the night before or during the day… i read somewhere on cc that he got called during the school day… like why would they do that… i cant answer phone calls during class lol.
but w/e. im almost positive i wont get finalist. oh well. good luck to everyone here!!!</p>
<p>Someone said on CC last year that they received their finalist call the night before at 5:00 pm CST. So yup that’s tomorrow night! Good luck everyone.</p>