<p>I got rejected as well. Will try again next year!</p>
<p>Rejected :(</p>
<p>Hey, u all...I got the REJECTION letter...want to hear who actually got ACCEPTED!!! Thought I had a good chance @ this...if u were ACCEPTED, what got d'ya thing got u in...essay, transcript, letters of recommend., WHAT? Thx.:<). Let's hear from the accepted people...</p>
<p>The problem with hearing from "accepted" people is that there are only ten of them, and the odds of them being on CC are very slim. That has been the problem if you look back over the past year's worth of posts. </p>
<p>I also was rejected by the way.</p>
<p>Wow, what a waste of time.</p>
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Hello,</p>
<p>Regretfully, I am writing to inform you that you have not been selected to participate in the Nanobiotechnology Center's High School Summer Internship Program for Summer 2008. This year's pool of applicants was quite large-- we had 900 applicants for 10 intern positions. It was an extremely talented group of applicants, as well, which made the decision process difficult.</p>
<p>I wish you the best in your future endeavors and I thank you for your interest in our program.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Lindsey Chilson
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</p>
<p>Rejected as well.</p>
<p>by the looks of it, this program is very tough to get into.</p>
<p>Rejected. :) I really had NO IDEA how exclusive this program was before I applied...but you never know until you try!</p>
<p>Life goes on.</p>
<p>Searching to get information for my brother who e-mailed me his letter today. He's in the finalist pool. No spots have been awarded yet. They said congrats and they'd be contacting him next week for more info. Teacher rec and essay is all he sent in. Looks like he shouldn't give up the summer camps and work he already has scheduled.</p>
<p>yay...i got selected as a finalist! FYI: NO ONE GOT IN FOR SURE. I THINK THEY PROBABLY NARROWED IT DOWN TO 100 OR SO. Anyways, I am not counting on getting in. if i do, that would be a miracle.</p>
<p>hahahahahaha rejected</p>
<p>i forgot about it anyway</p>
<p>lol this thread is funny...good thing i didn't apply</p>
<p>lol....i don't think nbtc let ppl do research on their own, it's probably just like a reserach seminar, or ppl there are just along their for rides.</p>
<p>From what I heard, all participants do group research on one topic...</p>
<p>ooooooo.......</p>
<p>I made it into the top applicant pool.
But, honesty, I have no idea how many people got into the "top applicant pool." The program (this year) will admit 1.1% of its applicants. However, the applicant pool can be made of 100 people (not THAT selective) or 30 people. I hope the the group is relatively small, so my chances of getting into the program are larger. However, like MANY people said, they accept so few people, my chances (or anyone's chances) of getting in are slim.</p>
<p>ALSO, if you look at the program's photos from their filer very year (and I have the fliers from the last 4 years), they seem to have an equal amount of males and females and at least 2 African Americans, and 2 Asians admitted every year. Just like any program/university, they look for diversity. Knowing they have to diversify their group, it will be even harder to get in. (I do not mean this in any negative way....)</p>
<p>For pjlover:</p>
<p>I am from a specialized high school in NY, Caucasian and female (and a sophomore). My GPA is an A, I took many science electives at my school, science College Now courses, courses in a museum in NYC and Im self-teaching myself Physics AP. </p>
<p>My letter of intent was 2 pages (and I admit that that is long) but I talked about my past research experiences in laboratories, how I love science and if I continue it throughout high school, I could see if its what I want to do as a career. I also talked about how living away from home would make me more independent and working with people from all over the US (that share this passion for science) would be fun and beneficial...and last year I attended an international leadership camp so I said how I can handle working in a diverse atmosphere. </p>
<p>I made my intro creative (I didnt start it off with "I HAVE TO GET ACCEPTED into the NBTC...") and I was worried that it sounded not professional, because in cover letters you send out for internships you have to be straight to the point, but I quote my sister, who said it perfectly:</p>
<p>"Of course they want creative. They read a thousand applications a week. They're bored out of their minds."</p>
<p>I also have TERRIBLE grammar, and no one proof read my essay because I wrote it the night before. OOPS = (</p>
<p>As for teacher recommendations, I put down my chemistry teacher. He doesnt speak English well, hardly knows any of his students other than by their exam grades and their lab work. And my both my physics teachers from last year left the school due to sickness. This may hurt my chances a LOT.</p>
<p>Still can't find much to advise him but I did look at the 2008 website flyer after reading Krason's post. I count 7 females and 3 males in the group picture.</p>
<p>Yea there are 7 females, 3 males in the 08 flyer. The years before had 5 males, 5 females and 6 females 4 males. </p>
<p>If youre looking for someone who attended the program there are names on this thread ( a few posts back ). You can get more accurate information from them:</p>
<p>thatdude2130
drew3435
Space Ranger 454
<em>Candide</em></p>
<p>I sent a message to Space Ranger 454 back in January about the program. This is what they wrote back:</p>
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<p>Hello. I have been getting quite few pm's asking about the program. Here is a short Q and A I compiled. I no longer have my letter of intent but I hope this will help. Good luck.</p>
<p>As far as courses, I put down Hnrs. Physics and photography. Of course I have taken AP's-but so has everyone else. The letter should really be personal and show how much your riven and how you are unique. Out of 7 people there, there was one rising junior and 6 rising seniors. I was a rising senior.</p>
<p>Q: please describe the focus and content of the program, is it ind research or kids helping with a res project?
-There are 8 kids chosen from a pool of about 645 this year
-We are given a research project and put in pairs. This year, the project title was "testing the chemotactic ability of Xanthamonas capestris in microfluidic devices"
-We worked in two labs, one off campus in Geneva,NY and another on-campus.</p>
<p>Q: How much supervision is there for students in the dorm, and what other
social/rec activities are provided-cultural, field trips etc.
-We each had our own dorm rooms (some had their own bathrooms). Boys were in one hall, and the girls were in another hall. We had an RA (grad student) who checked in with us each night.
-Lab hours were 9am-5pm. Curfew was about 10pm weekdays and 11-12 on weekends.
-We were given bus passes to go wherever we needed. Saturdays were reserved for group activities, which included going to the Corning museum of glass and hiking.</p>
<p>Q: Does the student have to know a lot about nanotech to get in?
-It definitely helped that I took AP Biology my junior year because my partner was a more Physics-oriented person. We did ALOT of research and had talks with various professionals who worked with microfluidic devices, so knowledge about nanotech was not necessary at all.</p>
<p>Q: What's the age range of the kids mostly, what are they like?Would a student who is super intellectual but also really extroverted fit in?
-The average age was 16-18. One kid actually graduated early and was already accepted to Cornell for this fall. On the first day, it was immediately obvious that we were all super intellectual because we debated the definition of a nanometer and had in-depth conversations about our ti-89's. Everybody was a leader, as it was easy to see from their personalities.The kids were from all over the country and actually had social skills! We went out to dinner and movies regularly and even swam in the gorges while it was raining, only to return to the dorm and have a pillow-fight war! We still keep in touch and plan to have a reunion.</p>
<p>Q: He likes to be around very smart but social kids. Would you attend this program again or recommend it?
-Definitely! All the kids in the program were unique and outgoing. We all left the program better people because of the diverse personalities.</p>
<p>Thanks Krason. Just what I was looking for. Good luck and hope you make the top 10.</p>
<p>Correction from Space Ranger's message, there were 10 last year—5 male and 5 female, 8 rising seniors, 1 rising junior, 1 who went to college this year, but would have been a rising senior.</p>
<p>I agree 100% with everything else she said.</p>