<p>But were you also accepted to the program if you wanted to underwrite the cost yourself?</p>
<p>I received my acceptance letter today, but I didn’t qualify for a scholarship. I will still probably attend.</p>
<p>Congrats on being accepted! </p>
<p>It sure is taking a long time for my D’s letter to get here to California! The suspense is killing us, because she REALLY wants this…</p>
<p>By the way, what research group were you accepted into?</p>
<p>The letter did not state which group, but my priority list was physics, neuroscience, geology, animal behavior.</p>
<p>Did anyone actually get the scholarship? I applied and to me as well they said I was accepted into the program but not for a scholarship. This is disappointing as I was really looking forward to going and there is no way we can afford this. I am wondering what the specific qualifications/statistics were like to get a scholarship because in the letter it says I have college potential and academic promise, which is all it says on the website for the scholarship qualifications. Does anyone know how many scholarships they had? Because it seems like there should’ve been more explanation as to why we were not given scholarships. My choice program was in Physics, and I am quite disheartened that this fantastic opportunity is no longer available.</p>
<p>I was very disappointed too. I assumed there would be at least a partial scholarship awarded to most applicants, and I wasn’t given an explanation either. I guess I’ll just be working the whole summer to pay for it.</p>
<p>Lucky you can do that! I’m trying to figure this out, but unfortunately I have to pay for a mandatory marching band trip and my dad has to pay for us to go to India to visit my aging and sick grandma, but who knows, maybe something will work out! Best of luck to you, you said you signed up for physics first choice? Does that mean you signed up for a physics research project or for a physics class? That part was confusing to me…</p>
<p>My understanding is that scholarships are earmarked almost exclusively for high-achieving students in public magnet schools, almost never for private school students (even if they are almost on a full scholarship, as is the case with my D). Also, applicants apparently needed to make it extremely clear on the application just how low income they really are, which my D didn’t do. In any case, since we haven’t received our acceptance/rejection letter yet (!), we still don’t know anything for certain.</p>
<p>What? That’s weird, I mean I go to a public school, albeit not a particularly well-known one or prestigious, but that obviously didn’t do much for me :(… plus it didn’t say anything about need so I didn’t write that my parents are barely clearing $30,000 because it basically didn’t ask and made that seem irrelevant. I’m considering emailing them to ask just how many scholarships there were and how many applicants. I wish the best for your daughter, hopefully she will get in!</p>
<p>If you do e-mail them, it would be great if you could share what you find out with the rest of us here on the forum. </p>
<p>I’m also wondering how many students have been OFFERED a spot, because I believe there are only about 35 spaces available.</p>
<p>P.S. Thanks for wishing my D luck!</p>
<p>ya i live in ca and i got my letter saturday</p>
<p>Now that is really weird. I wonder where her letter might have ended up. We have the worst mailmen, always misdelivering everything. Did a whole bunch of materials come together with your letter, or was it a skinny envelope?</p>
<p>^ Mine was just an envelope with two sheets. One to send back to hold my spot if I wanted it. </p>
<p>And about public vs. private, I go to a poor Title-I school in southern AL. Usually we get special consideration for scholarships and stuff because of Title I. So I’m not really sure how much weight the school type has in CSSI scholarships. Maybe it’s just super-high-achieving students.</p>
<p>Okay, I just got internet back, so I will make sure to email them sometime today. I will gladly share any information they give on here. And I think it says students will self-select into research groups of 10-12 students–assuming that there would be 4 research groups based on the 4 big disciplines, that would make 40-48 students.</p>
<p>Yes, ccrawford92, the high-achieving part seems probable. In fact, I had assumed everyone who was applying to this summer program would be a real brainiac, but then I heard that some people push their kids to apply to try to help them improve or catch up in science, which is not the point of the program.</p>
<p>Oh, and thanks, jojoinpink54. I don’t know where I got the idea it was about 35 total…</p>
<p>I am about to send this email:
Dear Carleton Summer Science Institute,</p>
<p>I recently received a letter in the mail explaining that I was not granted a scholarship for this program, but I was accepted if I wished to pay. I am deciding whether or not I will be able to attend without monetary assistance, and I was just wondering if it was possible to tell me how many scholarships were offered this year and how many applicants for scholarships there were. Thank you for any information you can provide regarding this.</p>
<p>And what exactly do you all mean by high-achieving? Just curious, because I always wondered about the selectivity of this program, which to me seemed less than some other summer science programs.</p>
<p>Oh, and I think that last year since they didn’t have physics there would’ve only been like 30-36 people, maybe that is what you were thinking of?</p>
<p>“We received 87 completed scholarship applications. Unfortunately, we only had a total of 5 scholarships that were not regionally based.”</p>
<p>Wow! That is pretty intense competition.</p>
<p>I also asked if I could get specific information regarding any shortfalls in my application. They responded:</p>
<p>“Unfortunately, I am not able to give you any more information, but I can tell you that you’re a great candidate, and it was a very tough decision. There was nothing specific in your application that detoured us from offering you the scholarship, there were just other students who were more recognized by the committee members.”</p>
<p>My dad’s hypothesis is that students who have alumni parents are more likely to go to Carleton and later endow money, therefore they want these people to come, so they give them scholarships. I think that if that’s true, that’s not a very nice process…</p>