<p>It was an email response back from Maiti about how many people applied.</p>
<p>ahoy… (Maiti) … spelled Maite… I just thought it was funny.
900 is significantly less I think, than usual.</p>
<p>ahoy! 
2:37, and no email yet.
900 applications, excluding non-US applicants?</p>
<p>May be people still waiting are accepted.</p>
<p>People who are still waiting for a response— anything?</p>
<p>texas, i sure hope so.</p>
<p>I’m liking the idea of a list… would be useful right around now…</p>
<p>I love spring break but I am seriously so bored. I’m checking this thread/ my email every 20 minutes (in between episodes of the big bang theory)</p>
<p>I have not received anything today but my US mail has not come yet. Last check I think I counted 11 people who had not received anything.</p>
<p>Even with only 900 applicants thats still a 5.5% chance which is lower than most colleges. Plus RSI applicants are also a lot more self selecting I feel.</p>
<p>OK… here is the list of “waiting”. BTW, only rejections have been sent so far… not acceptances or waitlists. Update the list as you are notified of your result.</p>
<ol>
<li>ender94</li>
<li>smitten</li>
</ol>
<p>80 people are selected for RSI. If the 900 included non-domestic applicants, then the acceptance rate is 8.9 percent… not TOO bad.</p>
<p>I’m busy and bored at the same time. It’s pretty sad~</p>
<p>900 is much lower than I would have imagined. Am a bit surprised Maite released that information. That is a huge decline from last year! The 5.5% acceptance rate is in line with TASP acceptance rate…and yes, still lower acceptance than at any college.</p>
<p>I figured the 900 only accounts for US students (50 get in) because I heard that other countries select their participants on their own. I heard that in some places they are top winners in science competitions and in others they apply like us. That said I don’t think they are accounted for in the 900 applicants. Nevertheless, 8.9% is still low</p>
<ol>
<li>ender94</li>
<li>smitten</li>
<li>boredinschool</li>
<li>paronomasia</li>
</ol>
<p>(I just decided to add you guys)</p>
<p>I dont believe 900 includes non US or defense pool because their selection process is totally different as mentioned by Ender94.</p>
<p>What about the people who aren’t regular posters here but did post once or twice near the beginning of the thread? when you include them, it’s a pretty significant group that hasn’t heard, right?</p>
<p>We don’t know if they’ve heard or not, do we? Maybe they were too sad to post, haha</p>
<p>smitten, when you say no acceptances/waitlists have been sent out, is that from deduction or from talking to someone at CEE?</p>
<p>I’m a parent posting - my child is in a school with six applicants, three got rejection emails and three are awaiting some communication.</p>
<p>@paranomasia … deduction… there have been no reports of such here.</p>
<p>it seems like there are a lot of no notifications at this point… makes me curious.</p>
<p>@Svparent,</p>
<p>Well, that blows the “waiters are accepted” theory (not that I was ever that optimistic) as there is no way 3 kids from the same school will be accepted. Oh well…</p>
<p>looks like they may be doing it in waves, and that decisions aren’t done yet. on amy’s twitter (got this from last year’s thread. forgive the creeping), “We’re reviewing a list of applicants and deciding which scientists to accept. I am correcting colleagues who say “he” for female applicants.” and “It’s all being done virtual and paperless: Applicants are in a spreadsheet and we’re discussing over a telecon.” ([Amy</a> Szczepanski (amyszczepanski) on Twitter](<a href=“http://twitter.com/amyszczepanski]Amy”>http://twitter.com/amyszczepanski))</p>
<p>Maybe I should be a detective instead.</p>
<p>Also, I wonder if Maite means that there are 900 left.</p>
<p>So I went through this thread and wrote down who has confirmed a rejection letter and who has said they have received nothing. I left out lomeinaddict because I couldn’t tell whether he was rejected or still waiting. I also left out trishk as we have no way of confirming he got in.</p>
<p>Anyways, 11 are still waiting and 20 have received emails saying they were rejected. When we add in svparent’s data we are at 14 and 23. I think that 14 is pretty high for us all to be accepted but we can only hope. Stay positive! especially since last year there were 8 cc’ers accepted and 12 if you count them plus their friends. That also does not count the waitlisted people.</p>
<p>here is the list of people still waiting to the best of my knowledge.
- Ender94
- hongmn
- boredinschool
- paronomasia
- college2012
- semperfidelis
- blugzms
- sMITten
- lovexlight
- got2surf
- 000000
12-14 students at svparent’s school</p>
<p>I think trish is a girl. And if anything, it means we made the first cut… so… yay!</p>
<p>PS. my friend from the same school is waiting as well.</p>
<p>@ paronomasia
nice catch. I remember seeing that in the thread from last year but completely forgot to check it. After a quick control+F for rsi I found this:</p>
<p>“Acting like a grown-up and not organizing mass ■■■■■■■■ of the RSI thread on CC. (Decisions get made when the key staff are all available.)
Fri Mar 04 2011 04:19:19 (MST) via Tweetie for Mac”</p>
<p>Do not know what to think of this…</p>