<p>My ignorant question of the day.</p>
<p>what is MOSP?</p>
<p>nevermind...got it</p>
<p>People say RSI is harder to get into than MIT. <em>Blinks</em>. Okay, sure. What I know is that my RSI app took a week of school time (i.e. intermittent work), while my MIT app is at a week and counting of summer time, and my main essay still is terrible. So I'm thinking MIT is harder to apply to well than RSI (based on my experiences only). Also, my counselor at RSI said that def. more than one person has been rejected, RSI rate is high but not 100% every year.</p>
<p>1) RSI is harder to get into than MIT. Of course a college application takes longer than a summer program application, but I don't see how that applies.
2) The RSI rate is 100% most years. From what I know, more than 1 person has been rejected - the true number being something like 3.</p>
<p>Over the course of the program? Maybe its 3 over the last 3-5 years (even that seems low), but I'm postive more have been rejected than that.</p>
<p>Positive? I don't have straight numbers for you, but my response of 2-3 (ever) comes from people who attended RSI and got that information from officers of the program. The facts could be wrong, but I see no reason why they are not plausible.</p>
<p>this question was addressed by one of Matt McGann's (MIT ad com) blogs w/in the past few months. Maybe one of the answer omnibus ones. If anyone cared to search through his blog archives, they would find it.</p>
<p>From: <a href="http://matt.mitblogs.com/archives/2005/03/march_questions.html%5B/url%5D">http://matt.mitblogs.com/archives/2005/03/march_questions.html</a></p>
<p>"I don't believe that in any the four years I've worked here that every RSI student was admitted. Those who are admitted to RSI have many of the same qualities we look for in MIT applicants, but there is no "magic ticket" for MIT admissions. "</p>
<p>So I guess they changed their policy four years ago</p>