<p>Does participation in Operation Catapult influence admissions chances assuming the participant performed well?</p>
<p>I don’t think so. And I certainly don’t think they’re going to look at if you “performed” well. About the only way catapult would influence it is if you got kicked out, but you would have to work pretty hard for that.</p>
<p>Reason I say “performance” is not that important is plenty of people do projects at catapult and have varying levels of success (or failure) and they’re not going to judge you or penalize you for how you do. My project, a hydrogen fuel cell, was a bomb, but I made it.</p>
<p>Chances are, if you are qualified for and motivated enough to attend catapult, you’re the kind of student they let in to rose. I don’t know the numbers on how many apply and are admitted from catapult, but I know between 1/2 and 2/3 end up coming to rose, so yeah.</p>
<p>what is the minimum age a participant has to be in order to apply for Catapult?</p>
<p>I don’t know if there is a minimum age, but Catapult is intended for the summer between junior and senior year of high school.</p>
<p>My son participated in Operation Catapult a while ago. He had a wonderful experience while there. At the end of the session, the admission office did counsel him on applying (which I don’t think he had considered previously) and helped him with the process.</p>
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<p>I want to make sure I read this correctly. If 150 people went to Catapult one year, between 50 and 75 of those go to RHIT the next? Wow! My son really did enjoy Catapult, but we’ve heard that the fin. aid that Rose offers is mostly loans.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>GeekMom, you are correct, a pretty significant part of each freshman class attended Catapult the summer before. I attended Catapult myself and I think it had a big part in my decision to go to Rose. I will add that the application is a little different if you attend Catapult since they already have a lot of the information. For instance, you won’t need a letter of recommendation since they already have one for your Catapult application and can talk to the professors you work with during the session. Nic767 is correct that they won’t hold it against you if your project doesn’t work at the end, but they do get a sense during the session of how you would fit in as a student.</p>
<p>My son attended Catapult in 2008 and had a wonderful time (and yes, his project did work). I don’t know if this will continue, but if a Catapult student is admitted to RHIT, they receive a Catapult scholarship (my son’s was the cost of Catapult x 4 years). His overall financial aid package had a nice amount of merit scholarships.</p>