<p>Gosh Random, I would have to crawl under a rock if I lost my credibility with you. I indeed attended RSI, read my many posts about it on this forum. And yes, I do believe it's as close to the holy grail of acceptance as anything comes, but we did see several surprising rejects this year. Didn't dissapear, while this is entertaining it's time to focus on apps.</p>
<p>Well....besides suze's little masquerade, I want to know if INtel Finalist can be considered a hook or not.......</p>
<p>Suze, how independently were you able to work at MIT as an RSI participant? Did you come into the program with your own idea for a research project and then simply implement that project under the guidance of a mentor? Or...did you think of your project idea in the context of a lab that the program assigned you to? I'm really just interested in what makes the RSI research program different from the other research programs for high school students (you know, besides accepting the top students in the country and enabling the use of MIT labs, etc.). Doesn't it all just come down to gaining research experience?</p>
<p>suze, you managed to avoid answering a simple question - when and where did you go to RSI?</p>
<p>I did look back through your posts, and I found one where you indicated that you're from New York:</p>
<p>"My old middle schools gives people my name and I tutor all summer. You can really make lots. In New York City, $25 per hour is what we ask, and it's about one-forth of what adults get."</p>
<p>Either that, or I seriously misinterpreted what you said.</p>
<p>Given that, I did a search on our alumni association website for anyone from New York who attended RSI 2004 (either MIT or Caltech). <em>Every</em> such person has a profile showing that that she has already enrolled in college - in other words, not you. </p>
<p>Of course, not quite everyone put where they live on their rsiaa acounts (almost everyone, though). So, I looked through the summerbooks from RSI 04 MIT and Caltech. Again, no one from New York who isn't accounted for (in fact, I'm noticing that I've met a lot of these people as nobodies at RSI).</p>
<p>As far as I see it, there are two possibilities, neither of which is very good:</p>
<p>1) You actually went to RSI, either after freshman year (which has never happened, so far as I am aware) or after sophomore year (meaning that you don't live in New York, and that I was misinterpreting your post), which would still be almost unprecedented. At the same time, you continually post and tell people that their college chances are markedly inferior because they lack the unique RSI "hook". This would be incredibly arrogant even if it was true, but in reality is simply bizarre, because it's false.</p>
<p>2) You didn't go to RSI, yet for some reason pretend that you did and bash others for not doing so. This is basically incomprehensible.</p>
<p>Neither of these possibilities is very flattering, but the latter is clearly worse. Would you care to offer a real explanation for this?</p>
<p>Once again....ownage.</p>
<p>Bump
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<p>Bump.............</p>