<p>Are they any age restrictions for applying to RSI. Its only for high schools students in junior year or for non enrolled students also?</p>
<p>don’t have to be junior. age 16/17, i guess. home-schooled is fine.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how you send SAT scores there? My school doesn’t get the “official score report” apparently…I don’t really know how to send AP scores either. I tried looking for RSI on the SAT list of camps/colleges but it didn’t show up…</p>
<p>I made a copy of the report that collegeboard sent me and enclosed that. You could also probably print the report you got online out; if you’re worried about it seeming real, I suppose you could get your guidance counselor to sign it, but I didn’t do that and it worked out fine.</p>
<p>anyone else from new jersey applying? lmao its a crapshoot from such a competitive state…so many nj applicants O_O sure same thing for places like ny, ca and ma too.</p>
<p>Thanks! This seems like a crapshoot for everyone -_-…I think Im going to finish the app, and then forget about it exists so that I don’t feel too bad when I get rejected.</p>
<p>In Part II of the application, there are questions for course level. Should an AP course be a “College”? The other two choices are “Regular” and “Honors”.</p>
<p>if i get in, will i do an individual research project? and could i possibly enter it into intel or siemens?</p>
<p>I just got my PSAT scores, and I realized that I may have a slight chance (I got a 222, 80 in math). I haven’t taken any AP tests, but…</p>
<p>Interest in Computer Science:
- I like numerical methods and simulations. (See [Blue</a> Koala](<a href=“http://www.thebluekoala.com%5DBlue”>http://www.thebluekoala.com) for my gravity simulation – Mac only)
- I know C++, Objective C, C, Actionscript (i have an absolutely awful game on newgrounds that I wrote a couple years ago)</p>
<p>Math:
- won the MAA Integration bee last year (of colleges in LA and Mississippi)
- got a 119 or so on the AMC10
- I’m in multivariable calculus, I have taken linear algebra, and next semester I’ll be taking vector calculus and statistics with calculus
- I also learned a lot about DSP, filter design, etc. through IIT lectures on youtube and I just checked out a book on linear time invariant systems</p>
<p>Science:
- USABO semifinalist last year
- I’m in Chemistry and Physics </p>
<p>Also, I would want my research to be on electrical engineering, so would that help me stand out?</p>
<p>You’re on paper with a lot of people who went to RSI, but you’re also on par with people who got rejected. You’re clearly good enough, but that doesn’t mean that you’re going to get in–this is, after all, even more of a crapshoot than college admissions. I have no idea about the EE making you stand out; it’s what I applied for, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything (i.e. I ended up working in Nuclear Engineering, which I’d barely even heard of previously). You’re good, but there are no guarantees.</p>
<p>ummm 67 in PSAT math… damn curve + sick = not good… should i even bother? i do have prior research though and solid test scores elsewhere</p>
<p>if you don’t mind $50, why not!</p>
<p>Are we required to send in PSAT scores? I just got back my PSAT score today, and my CR section is absolutely mediocre. my combined was a 210, since I did well on the other two sections. but in no way would I want to send in that CR score!</p>
<p>I have a much better SAT score I took last year (a 2200) … can I send that in instead?</p>
<p>you can leave psat blank and just write in your sat scores. they expect that most applying have taken psat rather than sat. i don’t think its a must you report all scores. some will have act blanks.</p>
<p>Does RSI give preferences to girls in male-dominated fields, especially the theory based ones? Were there any girls in math or physics in RSI 2010? I was thinking about math, because physics has too much heavy prerequisites (math, high level physics, comp sci…), and I was just wondering…</p>
<p>As far as I know, and as far as anyone at RSI says, RSI is sans-affirmative action. There were two girls in math last summer (out of ~13 math kids) and one girl in hard-core physics (that’s out of…six? Well, six if you count physics as the math-heavy stuff (i.e. astrophysics, but some of those projects were more like aerospace engineering). If you count nuclear science + engineering, you get another girl (ME) and three more boys; if you count math-heavy chemistry stuff that’s three girls, no boys…there might be more people I forgot to count). That said, our US students were only 33% female, and I think affirmative action would have boosted that, so it likely doesn’t make a difference. Apply for the fields you want to work in.</p>
<p>if i do RSI, will my project be able to be submitted to intels or siemen or will i have to do a completely new one?</p>
<p>Sorry for not getting back to you sooner on this one–I completely missed it last time. Anyways, yes, your RSI project will definitely be something you can submit. That said, it’s very difficult to create work of the caliber that wins those competitions during a six-week period. Most of the people that do phenomenally have finished their projects up after they left RSI, though there are people who are able to use their RSI project only. So, it’ll likely be something you can submit (it’s in the proper format, you’ll have completed a project, etc.), but there are always cases of people who didn’t collect enough data (particularly in bio) or were in a field that didn’t really mesh with science fairs.</p>
<p>@greenbean12t you are such a helper 
oh and HAI</p>
<p>@aznhopeful: I was a girl (gasp) in physics at RSI 2010, and it’s really no big deal. I can’t honestly tell you if girls in traditionally male-dominated fields received an admissions boost, but as far as we know, RSI doesn’t try to fill gender-based quotas. If you’re a girl and really into math and physics, definitely apply in those fields, and don’t be afraid of being outnumbered. As you alluded to, my project did encompass a lot of programming, math, and astrophysics. But RSI matched me really well to my mentor, because my essays focused on these three areas. </p>
<p>But if you’re interested in biology, chemistry or an unrelated field, I would be very careful applying in math unless you are also comfortable working with proofs.</p>
<p>@NspiredOne: I entered my RSI project in both Intel and Siemens. My project did not involve lab equipment at all, so I continued to work on my project once I returned to New Jersey and kept in frequent contact with my mentor. My project was enter-able immediately post-RSI, but I wanted to keep working on it and improving my paper.</p>