<p>Hey burnitblue! I'm definately going!</p>
<p>can anyone who has attended outline a day at WTP?</p>
<p>I can't wait until the info packets get here! I am a huge nerd for any kind of paperwork that doesn't involve money. (which is why a big part of the college app process kind of appeals to me)</p>
<p>Me too! My packet didn't come today. Maybe tomorrow ...</p>
<p>i got rejected :(</p>
<p>@Hlover,</p>
<p>basically you get up early enough (varies from person to person) to get washed/dressed, have breakfast, and walk to classes, which start at 9am. you have 2 classes, 1hr45min long for each, if I remember correctly, then lunch (which you have catered when you have a guest speaker), then your third class, which finishes by 4pm. there's a little down time until optional labs start (usually around 5pm), where you go to finish up programming for CS or wiring for EE if needed. optional labs vary and are held when necessary (aka when extra time is needed to finish work that needs to be done in the lab); my year, CS optionals started around 5pm and EE ones (which were rarer) started later in the evening. you basically have from when classes end until you go to bed to finish work (the major thing), eat dinner, hang out with friends, be addicted to Facebook, watch tv, run/exercise, shop at the mall or Newbury St., roam around campus/Boston, watch movies, do whatever you want, etc. etc. etc. there's usually nothing structured outside of classes, and you usually just make plans with your friends. The RA also plans some social activities in the evenings that you can go to. (**don't procrastinate day-to-day on work though, or you might not get to bed when you want to!!) curfew for "school nights" is 11pm, after which you have to stay in the dorm (McCormick), but can stay up as late as you want (after curfew, I usually hung out in the McCormick computer lab, the lounge, or the kitchens).</p>
<p>weekends are pretty much free in the added sense that you don't have to worry about work and there aren't any required activities. some optional activities are offered, like trips to the New England Aquarium, the beach, the Museum of Science, Chinatown dim sun, etc., but you don't have to go. i went to some optional activities and usually hung out with friends in Boston. you can even go out of Boston if you wanted- I know of two girls who took the train to Providence, RI one Saturday to visit Brown (I think you just need to notify your RA or tutor). weekend check-in is midnight.</p>
<p>Brown? Really? Did they have parental permission first?
(I assume so, just thought I'd check)</p>
<p>Other than that, that sounds excellent. Is it any different for ME (besides the obvious subject changes)?</p>
<p>wow...it sounds a lot more "free" than say CTY</p>
<p>btw post some stats</p>
<p>Like admissions stats?</p>
<p>lol , yep .</p>
<p>The relevant stuff (for future applicants):</p>
<p>Accepted ME</p>
<p>ACT: 34
GPA: above a 3.9
Took AP Calculus in 10th grade, 4 on AP test
Really good/personal teacher recs (both from 10th grade teachers)
Spent a moderate amount of time on my essays, was very honest and didn't have anyone else read them.
Only one science-based extracurricular, but very strong non-tech ones (I wrote my "team experience" essay about theater).
Only a tiny amount of HTML experience, no experience with C/Java, etc.</p>
<p>No SAT II's
No AMC/AIME</p>
<p>Accepted ME (applied to EECS, overqualified)</p>
<p>PSATs: 226, 221 (both 80 math)
SAT IIs: 800, 780, 760 (math, chem, bio)
SATs (middle school): 1990 (new), 1290 (old) (both 700+ math)
GPA: Near perfect on weird scale
APs: 5 Calc BC, 5 Psych, 5 Statistics
Currently 7 more APs. </p>
<p>Decent to good teacher recs (one soph, one junior- talked about sense of humor and personality as well as ambition and drive)
Essays were horrible and written 30 minutes before post office closed.
Several science and math extracurriculars, but no awards other than some small math ones and AIME score blah.
Very dedicated and successful non-math/science ecs.
Some HTML, VB, VPython experience and summer program experience.</p>
<p>No real engineering experience (other than TEAMS, Techxplore, etc)</p>
<p>oh really? You can apply for one thing and be overqualified for that yet accepted to the other class?</p>
<p>Cool.</p>
<p>I applied for wtp at mit but have not heard yet neither accept or reject, wondering if everyone hears or my mail lost. Has everyone else heard??</p>
<p>the wtp website was updated today to say that letters "will probably arrive between April 16th - 19th (due to MIT mail processing, and depending on how long after that it takes the U.S. Postal Service to deliver to you from Boston)"</p>
<p>weird, I already got mine in the mail. They most likely sent out EECS and ME stuff separately, but seriously? I feel like I learned way early.</p>
<p>thanks for info i guess i will just wait and just hope. Also accepted at Cooper Union Engineering Internship and Garcia at Stony Brook, so have to decide.</p>
<p>tennisgirl, thanks so much!
it seems like a good balance of work and fun.</p>
<p>Seems to me if you would have heare by now if you were accepted. Quite a few people from both sides of the house received email welcomes. I guess if you did not give an email address, you might only hear via US mail in the next few days. Otherwise, you should know by now via email.</p>
<p>overqualified .
which is a ??</p>