<p>I made USNCO national this year and maybe USABO (results are not out). Are these two honors worth updating?</p>
<p>^I have the same question. Made Physics Olympiad Semis and AIME this year. Do you think Ms. Durham would be irritated if I sent her an email with these updates?</p>
<p>Yes, by all means go for it. These sound pretty significant to me.</p>
<p>Will having a lower PSAT (215-220) without having taken the SAT be a huge detriment to my application? Do you know how much they take those into account?</p>
<p>I know PSAT or SAT are not the most important element of the application, but if you look at the average of last year’s Clarkies, it is definitely still considered. Your score looks fine imo.</p>
<p>Does anyone have a good estimate as to when decisions are out? I believe they came late April last year, but the application deadline was also much later last year. (Time to wait for this, after that hopeless rejection from RSI :P.)</p>
<p>@Kikuhana: Me too, got rejected from RSI. My essay for Clarks was a lot better though…soooo keeping my fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Kikuhana, the target is mid-April, according to Mrs. Durham.</p>
<p>Time for RSI rejects to accumulate on this thread >.></p>
<p>Looks like we are slowly but surely accumulating on this thread. Clark doesn’t get easier. Don’t they just take 12 kids nationwide? I bet all/most would be RSI accepts…so im hoping clark has a long alternates list for us RSI rejects??</p>
<p>Do u know when Clarks release results??</p>
<p>@babylunabi</p>
<p>The Clark Scholars Program begins making calls to acceptees in mid-April.</p>
<p>@stanfordready</p>
<p>Yes, they take only 12 (sometimes 13) kids, and about half of those are from the Lubbock area )from what I’ve heard), making the program even more competitive for those outside the Lubbock area.</p>
<p>@ iluvcake : Are you able to affirm what Seriwe just posted about most acceptees being from the Lubbock area? Also, could you possibly post some of your stats?</p>
<p>^The Lubbock part is confirmed to be true…they basically accept 6 students from a pool of 49 states + international. Seems scary hard… :/</p>
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<p>But honestly, how many applicants are there? I can’t imagine there being any more than 300…</p>
<p>Sure, but the applicant pool will self-select to be pretty difficult. For example about 300 kids nationwide get 2400 SAT scores (each testing period). Clearly SATs aren’t everything (especially after a certain benchmark is reached), or even very important at all, depending on what you think of the test itself. The point being their are a very high number of smart kids in a national and international pool, and a good portion of those kids will apply.</p>
<p>I wasn’t implying that the applicant pool is mediocre…</p>
<p>I wasn’t trying to state that they weren’t mediocre. I was emphasizing the applicants are very smart and many will be incredibly highly qualified.</p>
<p>Saying their aren’t more than 300 seems to imply: 6/300 = top 2%. “Hey I’m in the top 2%, w00t!!!”</p>
<p>Great, but are you the top 2% of the 1% (or 5%, .5%, or any speculative number you’d like to insert here).</p>
<p>[Sorry if this post seems negative, and it’s not as if we have a set criteria for figuring out who those people are, every program looks for different aspects. Just trying to say Clark seems like a great program and getting in is tough. That said, good luck everyone 
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<p>There are about 12 acceptances, not 6. In recent years there have been about 200ish applicants. So it’s a bit better than you said.</p>
<p>^Yes, but 6 of those are from the Lubbock area, leaving 6 spots for the rest of us…</p>
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