High School Honors Science Program at Michigan State ( HSHSP )

<p>What does your last name start with ? StudiousMaximus?</p>

<p>Congrats StudiousMaximus</p>

<p>Please post your stats</p>

<p>@quantumbyte: I doubt there’s any relation between last name and acceptance notification. Hoctopi and I have last names from disparate parts of the alphabet.</p>

<p>Thank you, biovball!</p>

<p>To help future applicants, here’s a quick rundown of my stats.</p>

<p>SAT: 2400
PSAT: 240
Subject Tests: 800 Bio-M, 800 Math Level 2
AP Tests: Bio (5), World History (5)
Grades: 4.0 UW, 4.67 W
Rank: 1/333
Activities: A lot of leadership (multiple club presidencies and such), some science fair awards, significant debate involvement and awards, some math & science competition stuff (school-wide, so not a big deal), some volunteering, a lot of quizbowl invovement & awards, and varsity tennis.
Essays: Strong. I was a little worried, however, because I wrote my second essay on an art history book. Guess it was fine after all!
Recs: Good. I sent three (Calc BC, AP Chem, and AP Bio). I have good relationships with all three, so I imagine they were very positive.
State: Virginia</p>

<p>@StudiousMaximus check your Facebook</p>

<p>when did you send in your application?</p>

<p>I sent my application in two parts. The recs and transcript arrived in the mail the day before. I emailed the rest within an hour of the deadline.</p>

<p>Hopefully not all of the decisions have been sent out</p>

<p>guys, they are probably taking out the people they really were impressed by, and are sure that will be offered admission, and then now are deliberating on a smaller group of people to decide who to finally take.</p>

<p>Those who got accepted, let us know which state you are from. Anyone from the west coast ?</p>

<p>lacrossegirl123, congrats. lots of acceptances for you! but just saying…with all the rejectees, you could be a lil more gracious about it. not everyone has been accepted into all these programs…</p>

<p>@readyfor2014: I’m still not convinced that she’s not a ■■■■■. Don’t take her replies to heart.</p>

<p>Anyway, I started the Facebook group. PM me with proof of your acceptance, and I’ll send you the link!</p>

<p>Definitely a ■■■■■ – no one gets into every program. If you check the facebook groups you can see that there isn’t a female that is in all of them.</p>

<p>have there been rejections yet?</p>

<p>@Studious: BAHAHAHA, you probably scared half of the people on here to death with your stats. Can’t wait to see you there! :D</p>

<p>Here are mine, for those who asked:
State: Texas
Rank: 17/652 GPA: 4.0/4 (uw), 4.9722 (5.0+)
SAT: 2320
PSAT: 234
AP Tests: World History - 4 (noooooooooooooo)
ECs: - Science Bowl for four years - part of a magnet subschool for science and technology - LEO Club(volunteer stuff) - Varsity Orchestra, then switched over to a volunteer community orchestra - State Solo and Ensemble (2012 and 2013) - Varsity Track and Field - UM ARMY volunteer work (hoping to do so again right before HSHSP) - miscellaneous science awards - and hopefully, starting a Quiz Bowl team and a Science National Honor Society chapter for next year.</p>

<p>So I haven’t heard anything still, but I’m going to post my stats and stuff now so when I get my acceptance/likely rejection you guys can see it without me having to post it under a waterfall of tears. </p>

<p>State: California (small economically diverse city in Central Valley)
Rank: 1/500 (large public)
GPA: 4.00/4.5
SAT: 2360 (760 CR/800 M/800 W)
PSAT: 237 (80 CR/80 M/77 W)
SAT II: 800 M2/730 Lit/740 Bio (didn’t take the biology class though lol)
AP: 5 on Euro and Calc BC, 4 on Chem
ECs: a few clubs with leadership positions related to science, varsity and club volleyball starter/captain with top 20 team in California, middle school volleyball assistant coach, assistant referee for varsity girls volleyball, science museum volunteer, executive board member for a division of the American Cancer Society focused on melanoma research, discussion group with PhD students at UC Davis for theoretical math, 7 years of genealogical research
Current AP classes: Stats, physics b, enviro, us history, English Lang, self-studying biology and physics C
CC classes: Multivariable Calculus and Cultural Anthropology (A’s in both)
Essays: felt pretty good about them, and I’m usually pretty hard on myself
Recs: both glowing</p>

<p>No research experience though :(</p>

<p>Wait guysss you can only let them know your EC’s through essays/LORs right? I remember that there was no place for activities/awards on the application… did anyone send in a resume?</p>

<p>Don’t sound as if ‘no research experience’ is a bad thing! The most I’ve ever had research-wise have been my past science fair projects (which went absolutely horribly, by the way).</p>

<p>@Hoctopi haha well at least you did science fair stuff! I didn’t do anything except science olympiad, which went horribly</p>

<p>@pleiotropy
i sent one but I don’t know if they’ll look at it.</p>