<p>Apoc314, others, what time did you get the email? I’m wondering if they sent them out over several hours or the whole wave at once.</p>
<p>Does it matter? We got rejected.
Go home everyone, and start studying for those AP exams.
Haha jk, good luck to everyone else.</p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>Didn’t get it. Ah well. Moving on!</p>
<p>No email either. I already have another internship that I accepted but still would love to do clark over it… if I got in I would have to make a tough decision that I am not thinking about unless I have to make it.</p>
<p>If I get the email saying I was rejected in like 2 days after all of you but with no reason why I was emailed later I am going to blow a fuse. RSI already did that to me…</p>
<p>Anyways, I am sorry for those people who were rejected. I know the feeling from rsi and simr this year as well as both of the ones i applied to last year. read chaseholl’s link. That was definitely me last year and I wish someone would have sent me a link like that. Just make the most of your summer. And yes, it is not too late to find new programs/activities that in some ways might be better for you.</p>
<p>Yeah…You guys think local university professors still have room for the likes of me? It’s very LATE in the game.</p>
<p>Most definitely. I feel like college professors do not have a system of applications that require students to start thinking about the summer in January like all these summer programs. 1-2 months before the summer is not last minute. My friend just got an intern for himself doing research at the local hospital this week.</p>
<p>nothing yet.</p>
<p>^Exactly. It’s really not too hard, especially if you’re not looking to get paid. My dad’s a prof in engineering and he loves when students (HS/college) ask to be volunteer researchers. Paid, however…</p>
<p>I think if you sound genuinely interested in whatever they’re researching (do some research first on their projects, pubs) they’d love to let you work with them. I mean, I emailed a breast cancer prof at the hospital, and all I told him was that I wanted to work with lab animals, and bam! I’ll be interning in the summer working with lab mice neuro research if this clark thing fails.
Honestly, I won’t be THAT bummed if I get rejected. I’d be giving up 2 (possibly 3) national competitions, chances to shadow at the clinic, as well as a headstart on my research (and goofing off in the summer!). </p>
<p>It’d be an amazing opportunity, but getting rejected from this does NOT mean getting rejected from Harvard.</p>
<p>To chaseholl: I got my rejection email around 4:00 pm central time while others got them earlier in the morning so they might be sending the emails out within the timespan of a few days.</p>
<p>Who is sending these mails out ?</p>
<p>Ms. Durham has sent out some rejection emails.</p>
<p>Got my e-mail early this morning. Also rejected, but I really don’t feel anything after the previous two rejections from RSI and HSHSP.</p>
<p>This might not be the best place to post this, but in response to chaseholl’s earlier link, “when one door closes, another opens.” I can’t agree with this more, out of personal experience.</p>
<p>In ninth grade, I actually thought I was an art person, and I try to be one. I tried out for yearbook, but was bluntly rejected. The yearbook teacher told me in my face the pictures I took were horrible. </p>
<p>Of course, I was heartbroken and really thought I wasn’t good at anything, but on the other hand, that meant I would have a free sixth period. Just so my mom doesn’t have to come to school twice to pick up my brother and I separately, I spent my free sixth periods reading in Borders next to my school. But one day, before I left for Borders again, I ran into my counselor and ended up talking to her for an hour. I told her about my rejection, but instead of simply comforting me, she told me to try something else. She gave me a few resources her previous students had used and told me to look them up. Specifically, she told me to try math since at that time I had a 98% in my Alg II class. When I went home that day, I googled “Art of Problem Solving” for the first time in my life, and from there, everything took off.</p>
<p>“When one door closes, another opens.” I can’t express this concept in better words. Had I make yearbook in freshman year, I would never know I love math/science that much. Had I not run into my counselor on that fateful day, I would never have learned what American education has to offer (I immigrated from Taiwan, where high school resources are very limited). And look at where I am now, AIME qualifier, HiMCM meritorious, and Spaceset champion team. By the time I graduate next year, I would have taken every science/math AP except for Environmental Science, be published in scientific journals (my research is ineligible for intel/siemens though), and hopefully make USAMO.</p>
<p>So to those who got rejected, don’t take it too hard. Another door has opened for all of you! You just haven’t found it yet. It may not show itself quickly, but soon you’ll be just as successful, just in a way a bit different from what you have planned for. Just go with the flow, take advantage of whatever happens, and you’ll all be just as great, if not better than if you were accepted. (local internships = more time to work on the project = better results?)</p>
<p>As for me, I will start looking for research internships at local universities (UCI, UCLA, maybe UCSD). Maybe this rejection is a sign telling me I’m better off at a local university, since my research interests are a bit weird anyway.</p>
<p>Sorry for this long post, but I just feel compelled to share this. =]</p>
<p>yep. rejected. i received the email around 3 pm central time. honestly, i kinda felt this coming, so im not too dejected. my hopes were never that high for this. oh well. now im waiting for american cancer society decisions (which i feel like im not gonna get in…not too confident about my interview) and hshsp (which apparently i’m on the waitlist but they don’t tell u that). at least i was accepted at iowa sstp so i have somewhere to go this summer.</p>
<p>does anyone else actually feel somewhat good about themselves when they read the rejection email? clarks really put an effort into not making u feel all that crabby. “Your academic credentials are very impressive” and “Please accept our thanks for the opportunity to examine your credentials.” made me feel all fuzzy inside. and then i remember that it’s a rejection email</p>
<p>I suppose it is better than not even receiving a rejection email from the ACS program, but it still feels very disappointing. I am still hoping to get some responses from professors at my local university now.</p>
<p>oh yea i heard about that. i have a lot of friends who haven’t received a rejection email from acs yet. that’s kinda ridiculous.</p>
<p>momo899, it’d be awesome if you could please repost that at [the</a> other thread](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/1128969-when-one-door-closes-2.html]the”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/1128969-when-one-door-closes-2.html).</p>
<p>Does anyone know the number of applicants that are still in contention?</p>
<p>iceui2 thought it meant we were in the top 30</p>
<p>if you want we could always start a list on here though.</p>
<p>Nah, that’s fine. Thanks for the information though!</p>