<p>according to san fran, applicant pool was competitive (tons of vals. high gpas, high sats etc), but not as competitive as most of you guys seem to think. I believe that there were ~90 applications. Last year 4 students were from lubbock and 2 others were from texas. 6 were out of state.</p>
<p>I would like to point out tho that just because they select kids from Lubbock does not mean those students are any less competitive than the rest of the pool. (Although I doubt the hs has anything to do w/ the caliber of the students.. i heard some iffy things about the hs when I was there. although it is known for getting a few people every year into top knotch schools). My point is the Lubbock High kids were indistinguishable in credentials from the rest of the Clarkies. Not only are they great students, but they have all done outstanding work outside of the classroom. Clark is a great experience because you are surrounded by so many amazing kids, which has been confirmed again this year with a plethora of acceptance letters from top universities. Its not like everyone got into every school they applied to, but I think as a group we got at least one person into every school that was applied to. Everyone in my year has great choices</p>
<p>Also, for kids worried that they got rejected from RSI.. dont assumed that that means a rejection from Clarks. I know that at least 4 of the Clarkies were rejected from RSI. I'm not sure how big of a role this played, but all of us were biology people, which I think may have made us less appealing to RSI. </p>
<p>I cannot say enough great things about this program. Definitely go if you get the opportunity.</p>
<p>Off topic: I am currently looking at a VERY inappropriate ad on CollegeConfidential, a "sponsor" supposedly. </p>
<p>Well I'm glad the admission isn't 6/400. That would be an admission rate like the admission rates of TASP and RSI multiplied together. I guess it's just going to be waiting for these next few weeks.</p>
<p>i think a lot of people put down bio and psych, since i did put down as well as another girl in TX who put down those two. i think there's going to be an intense competition for "soft" sciences.....such as bio and psych.</p>
<p>Hey after the part where they ask you to select which fields, there was a blank area that let us write down specifically what we wanted, right? </p>
<p>Where we suppose to elaborate on those? Cuz I just wrote a little about a couple of fields that I would like to work on... we didn't need to write down project ideas like the ones for RSI, correct?</p>
<p>No, not really...What i put down for a blank was "economics" and i kind of talked about researching something about economics, and maybe on the development of poorer nations...it was only three sentences or so. I kind of rushed on the essay part. :/</p>
<p>I ranked mine till 5 to 6 I think..since the first three were like Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry (lol.) that's why I just figured it'd rather be better to go ahead and mark 5-6! lawl. I just told why I'm interested in that..and how..just basic...nothing fancy..and long.</p>
<p>I applied for biochem too, in addition to chemical engineering and agronomy. I was under the impression that your mentor should provide you with an experiment but having drafted out an experimental plan will only help you imo. I guess we'll hear next week or the week after? Wow, the waiting was like no time. </p>
<p>i think they would prob notify all accepted ppl, and if some declined, then they move on to the next on the list until the spots are full. Then, reject everybody else, so for all us rejectees, we'll prob be notified mucho later.</p>
<p>Haha, maybe they'll never tell us, and we'll just have to assume we were rejected when, in December 2011, there's still no mail from Texas Tech.</p>