<p>It looks like every other year has had an official Siemens thread... so I thought I would start one :) </p>
<p>How is the process going for you all? Have you submitted yet?</p>
<p>Done, and submitted. Phew.</p>
<p>Ahh, Siemens. So nostalgic :")</p>
<p>I can’t submit :(</p>
<p>Not a senior yet lol</p>
<p>Done, and submitted as well. Are we supposed to get confirmation emails? (I don’t think we are) If not, who signed for you all’s package?</p>
<p>Submitting today… Does anyone know when results come out? Also, how many people make semis?</p>
<p>Done and submitted! Scheduled to arrive today.</p>
<p>The results come out on October 18 (a Friday) this year. I can’t remember what time of day it was, but I believe last year I found out some time between 5-7 PM EST.</p>
<p>About 300 people make semi-finalist, which last year was a little bit less than 30%… I think</p>
<p>Can we email Siemens to ensure our package has actually arrived?</p>
<p>I wish I was done with my project already so that I could do this. Oh well, Intel is for the kewl kidz anyway.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the results will come out between 1 - 2pm on 10/18… regardless I am not going to be able to concentrate the whole day :)</p>
<p>If 300 people make semis, how many people make regional finals? Siemens gets ~1500 apps, right?</p>
<p>In which category did you submit your project? I did bio but I feel like a lot of people always have biology-related projects…</p>
<p>We’re supposed to wait until October 2nd or later to ask if they received our project, at least based on the automated message I got when I called Siemens. Idk, maybe email works too… </p>
<p>I didn’t see the results before 2 PM Pacific Standard Time. However, that could also be because I forgot my phone at home or something. I don’t really remember… </p>
<p>About 80 people made regional finals last year. (But keep in mind, some of these are team projects, so the actual project count might be lower)</p>
<p>I was going to do bio, but my interest is bioinformatics and couldn’t find a mentor who agreed to help me past the basics, so instead I did a computer science project. I’m not really fond of my project this year - I liked my last year’s project better.</p>
<p>How many of the 300 are group projects, is it 150-150, or what?</p>
<p>I think 300 people make semis, not 300 projects… so it would probably be ~100 individual participants and ~100 team projects</p>
<p>Yeah, I think 300 people are semifinalists, not projects. I didn’t really keep track of team vs individual…</p>
<p>@quidditchcat So, I called Siemens also to listen to the automated message. I believe they said we could call in for confirmation after October 3rd (darn, another day later!)</p>
<p>As for the semifinalists/finalists, from my understanding they pick ~300 semifinalists (~100 individual, ~100 team). For finalists, I believe they pick 10 projects per region, 5 individual and 5 team, for a total of 60 projects. </p>
<p>My project was biochemistry, which is another one of those big fields. I’m probably more interested in bioinformatics, personally, but I didn’t have enough background, time, or resources to pursue a bioinformatics project. So yeah, I stuck with some cancer research (you can’t go wrong with cancer!)</p>
<p>wait but aren’t there regional finalists? if you’re a semifinalist, isn’t that the end of the road for you in siemens?</p>