<p>@botherme - It’ll undoubtedly help your chances, but is in no way a guarantee. Me and a MOP-Green guy from my area got rejected in favor of two ISEF people, for example. If you have this plus some legit scifair experience though (and you aren’t from California/New Jersey/other absurdly competitive states), you have a decent shot imo. But it’s probably a question for the RSI thread(s). </p>
<p>wait, so the state that you’re applying from affects it? So if I’m applying from indiana, would mine be higher or lower?
Last question (I promise)-- how good were these ISEF guys?</p>
<p>I think if your applying from Indiana your chances would be pretty good, since they usually take exactly one person per state. I also think that RSI actually cares a lot about the essays that you write, besides contests and stuff. I applied this year from Washington, and I got placed as an alternate even though I hadn’t done any science fairs or contests at all, and my PSAT was also really low, and I hadn’t taken any SAT II at all, but then I heard that they have like 20 alternates besides the people they admit into camp.</p>
<p>I was wondering for the semifinal results, will there be a histogram released like there is for the open? (not sure if this is a dumb question or not XD It is my first time, so if it is, please cut me some slack 
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<p>I think they release everything, histogram and list of finalists included, on wednesday</p>
<p>Ok, thanks! </p>
<p>yeah, rupnok showed us the 2013 histogram last year also</p>
<p>So I’m assuming they’re done with the notifications?</p>
<p>I am hoping not, but it’s a good assumption to make that all the emails have been sent out.</p>
<p>Well, if they only sent initial emails to strictly top 20 and some people can’t go, they might send a couple more before wednesday!</p>
<p>lol, I guess everyone is so tense about wednesday that no one feels like talking anymore</p>
<p>if we do make finals, how are we supposed to prep for it?</p>
<p>@wanahakalugi
I heard that the Finals is much more laboratory-based than either the open or the semifinals.
But other than that, I don’t think you could prepare much, since I also heard that the testmakers literally make the test the night before the administration</p>
<p>ok… If i have time, I’ll probably read raven’s and alberts since i’ve just used campbell reece and wikipedia until now</p>
<p>Half of my total knowledge in life probably comes from wikipedia…</p>
<p>sounds like a good estimation for me too…</p>
<p>just hours left now eeeeep</p>
<p>I really want to see what the top score on that test was…
(my math teacher told me that a good test was one where after you take it, you feel like you were hit by a truck. that usabo semi was a pretty darn good test)</p>
<p>Has anybody on the east coast gotten their scores yet?</p>
<p>I’m sorta east, and nope. But I think they post a list anyways</p>