<p>not sure whether they implied perfect math score in PSAT for the 100 rejects. my child had 235 (75 in writing, 80, 80) and 2380 in SAT (780 in Math). OTOH, only one AP while doing 7 this year.</p>
<p>It seems that rejections and acceptances were all sent out yesterday. Snail mails were used to deliver acceptances while emails were used to notify rejections. There should be more people getting mails tomorrow.</p>
<p>Is that just a guess? Though it would be rather irrational to send rejection letters by mail to some and email to others, now that I think about it. The other explanation is that they’re doing this by waves?</p>
<p>Waves, I think. Again, my friend got her rejection (email) today as opposed to yesterday.</p>
<p>Re-reading dragonboy, it seems to imply that ALL rejections were sent by email and ALL acceptances by snail mail, so the rejections traveled faster and were all received. The snail mail will probably reach tomorrow or day after.</p>
<p>Wait, so going back to unsungheroine’s post, only 47? What happened to the last three spots haha</p>
<p>I believe the number of people admitted varies each year. One year had only 45, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that ONLY 45 or so (less than 50) were admitted last year.</p>
<p>[RSI</a> Applicants | Center for Excellence in Education](<a href=“http://www.cee.org/programs/rsi/usa]RSI”>http://www.cee.org/programs/rsi/usa)</p>
<p>There are three categories. Regular US quota is under 50 out of the 80.</p>
<p>I"m sorry, I mean’t perfect PSAT/SAT scores</p>
<p>I guess that the tweets are not about us. Well congrats then unsungheroine.</p>
<p>This is when I hate living out west. I probably wont get anything until friday or saturday if I get anything in the mail and not through my email :/</p>
<p>Still waiting. 
(I’m in NY)</p>
<p>^ what’s your stat :)</p>
<p>The [5</a> stages of grief](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube) for a rejected RSI applicant.</p>
<p>Denial: “No… I couldn’t have gotten the rejection email… it surely must have been meant for someone else. The letter will come in a couple days, right? Right?”</p>
<p>Anger: “Why, did I not turn in my AP scores?! Why?! Why did I not do better on my SATs?! I hate my life!”</p>
<p>Bargaining: “Come on… I’ll turn in my AP scores now… I’ll be a nice, good little researcher, I swear. I’ll even clean your car! Your house? How about the car, house and the CEE office?”</p>
<p>Depression: -Irrepressible sobbing- “Wh- Why was I not good enough?..”</p>
<p>Acceptance: “Alright, it’s cool. I can go research something at my state college, maybe get an internship, a job, and hang out with some of my friends. I can prepare myself for college next year! Huzzah!”</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>More Denial and Depression: “I’m never going to be happy or successful… My life is over! I won’t ever get into college, get a job, or even finish high school! Now I have to go live the life of a vagabond, playing cello and begging for some scraps near the main cross section… I’ll just keep waiting for the mailman everyday… He’ll bring the letter to me someday.”</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Ah, I thought when I sent my application, I would have no regrets, but in retrospect, I do regret some of it. I should have sent my five 5’s first of all (>_>), and picked a different second subfield. I really didn’t display my knowledge, but it displayed more of what I thought would be really cool to explore. A good thing though, is that I’ll do better for college applications. And even though I do think I’ll move on and be alright with the summer ahead of me with internships and other programs and such, I think I’ll be sad overall about the experience that I had been dreaming of since sophomore year. I guess I’ll be researching and playing Starcraft by myself this summer. T.T</p>
<p>In all honestly - this is just based on my own opinion - I think grades/PSAT/AP scores retain relatively little weight compared to research experience, passion, and other things.</p>
<p>My son had 230 PSAT, 4.4 GPA, and four APs (English Lang, Comp Sci, Bio, and Euro Hist), all with scores of 5, and got rejected yesterday. Not sure the APs made any difference. He is a great kid, so something else will turn up…we hope!</p>
<p>@SemperFidelis: Yeah, those were my thoughts exactly. But if they did in fact go to look at AP scores, that means that they had big enough of a weight to actually go to scores that they normally don’t look at. That means something.</p>
<p>I am anxious to see who got accepted though. Maybe see some of their topics and stats and see why I wasn’t accepted.</p>
<p>@chipbee: I actually had extremely similar stats to your son, and for his and my sake, I do hope something else turns up for us.</p>
<p>Prodigious, 5 5’s? dangggggg.</p>
<p>I think we should have an RSI Reject party. A 6 week long party.</p>
<p>Those are amazing stats. I really must have typed my email wrong. <em>headdesk</em></p>
<p>@paronomasia: I’m hoping you and ender get in to represent Arizona. It’d be nice to know that I knew the people who got to represent this state, and you guys could maybe even meet a couple of the people I wanted to meet for me. But if you two end up not getting in, then I would definitely be up for a reject party. 
And even though it’s super fun to hang around me (extreme sarcasm), I’m sure RSI will be a lot more fun, haha. Good luck! I’m rooting on you guys. ^^</p>
<p>Thanks prodigious :3 Honestly, I think you deserve to be there more than I do. Would you mind sending me your essays? I’m curious to see what others wrote.</p>
<p>(and because I can’t stop thinking about RSI. Heck, I had a dream about it, and MITES, last night. And to procrastinate AP bio.)</p>