<p>I know this is a bit early, but I wanted to start a thread to discuss this since the application is pretty complicated (almost as much work required as a college app). Who all is applying, and did you apply for Siemens?</p>
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<p>I’ll apply if my supervisor will send me the dang data.</p>
<p>^^Haha …did you apply for Siemens?</p>
<p>Exactly one month until the Intel STS deadline! How far are all of you with your projects?</p>
<p>@indianboy2400 Are you applying for Intel STS this year? I read on your other thread that you didn’t make semis for Siemens (sorry about that man, same thing happened to me) so are you still going to try for Intel?</p>
<p>Does the judging process differ in any way between the two competitions?</p>
<p>Don’t know about the judging differences, but my D didn’t make Siemens and did make STS semifinalist.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that STS weighs academic record (SAT, SAT Subjects, AP’s, Transcript) as opposed to Siemens (only research paper).</p>
<p>@stemit Did she do a lot of other science competitions before Intel? I’m kind of unsure about applying to STS because this summer was my first time doing a research project, and I heard they care about past awards like google, ISEF, etc. My grades and standardized test scores are relatively good though but I’m not sure how much they will offset the fact that I’m a newbie at science research, if at all.</p>
<p>I’m applying for Intel. Wrote drafts of my application statement. Wrote up a good chuck of my paper except for the results section, as I’m still not completely done with the data collection and analysis. About 70-80% done with that. However, my stats aren’t the greatest. I feel great about the project and my letters will be great, but my stats aren’t Harvard level. My mentor told me that my project is on par with the average senior thesis submitted in our discpline at the ivy league school at which he teaches.</p>
<p>How important are stats for achieving semifinalist status? I’ve heard from some they look at <strong>everything</strong> in an applicant’s file but others say the report is the only main thing they look at. Stats are scrutinized after the semifinalists have been filtered out. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>previous sts-er here. thought I’d drop in to see if you guys have any q’s that I could possibly answer. good luck this year!</p>
<p>/cthulukiller001 sorry I was so long to respond (don’t follow these threads often).</p>
<p>I have no solid info other than my anecdotal observations. She did ISEF as a junior (it was her first science fair since middle school). Did really, really, really, really, well. It was a project done entirely in her HS lab. My feeling is that STS is much more holistically oriented (when compared to Seimens).</p>
<p>You can’t know how you’ll do unless you enter. Nothing to lose except time (now, if your time stretched with applications, testing, grades, etc., only you can determine if adding one more big item will cause the whole house of cards to collapse).</p>
<p>In the risk/reward analysis, achieving Intel STS semi finalist does favorably impact an application - how much of an impact is known only to the admissions committees.</p>
<p>Do any of you have your transcript say received on the application? I mailed mine in on Thursday and it appears like they still haven’t gotten it.</p>
<p>My transcript says received on my application. My counselor uploaded mine.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks, my transcript also says received!</p>
<p>Just got an email saying that the awards for STS will be drastically increased</p>
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Sounds interesting, and I hope I win one of those 150k grand prizes 
:D!</p>
<p>How did you guys cite your mentors? Yourself?
I have several images in the paper–while I understand that Siemens Competition require us to cite ourselves properly, I am not very certain how Intel STS goes about this. (I can’t find it stated anywhere explicitly)</p>
<p>Did you guys submit today, or are you guys submitting tomorrow?</p>