<p>One conventional thinking is that $6000 summer program will usually not be that competitive. At the very least, some really good students and some lower income students with good scores will shy away from it and apply to other free, lower cost programs or paid internships and still waiting for a reply from those programs while this deadline has passed.</p>
<p>@ttparent Hopefully it isn’t competitive… the main reason I applied for SAAST this year was because of my grade (I’m a sophomore right now). Most of the internships and summer programs I looked up (paid or not) were for rising seniors (current juniors), and the ones that I could actually participate in required an American citizenship or residence in America. I’m planning on applying for other summer programs (such as RSI, SSP, etc.) after I become a junior, but for now, SAAST is the only type of program I can apply to…</p>
<p>well I mean even low-income students can apply to the program due to the financial aid part of the application.</p>
<p>Yes, but which would they more likely to apply to? A program with all free/low cost spots or this one where there might be one or two FA spots. I am speculating about the overall competitiveness not one particular cases of students that apply. I have not heard of any summer program that cost a lot of money that are super competitive like RSI or Cornell Nanobiotech. If this program is free all of the sudden, you can bet that it would quickly be very competitive.</p>
<p>Oh no 
I applied for financial aid and does not have great scores. Do you guys think I still have a chance?</p>
<p>The results are going to be mailed this week, but they tell you the results if you call them. Apparently, the FA decisions have not been made yet.</p>
<p>Dear Jinho,</p>
<p>I am pleased to inform you that you are accepted into the Biotechnology program of the Summer Academy in Applied Science & Technology. However, the financial aid decisions have not yet been made. We will do our best to get the official notification with financial aid decision to you this week.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Katharine</p>
<p>^ Hey, when did you apply?</p>
<p>I applied for the regular deadline (March 26 or so).
More specifically, I handed my app in about a week before the first priority due date.</p>
<p>so we will probably hear late this week or next week hopefully. Congratulations johnconner! Yeah I turned mines in like the Saturday before the deadline, or maybe a day before that.</p>
<p>hey has anyone here applied to the computer graphics program?</p>
<p>has anyone else gotten any letters from UPenn yet?</p>
<p>Do you guys think that applying for a first and a second chance affects your chance of getting in? Like, say biotechnology was pretty full, and nanotechnology wasn’t as full as biotech, so you put nanotech as your first choice instead of biotech (your intended first choice) Do you guys think that I would have a higher chance putting nanotech as my first choice instead of biotech in order to get into the program (regardless of biotech or nanotech), or do you guys think it’s the same?</p>
<p>@rocketblues: Too risky and unnecessary. Always go with your first choice, and never play the imagined odds.</p>
<p>^ But I want to get into the program regardless; I just think I’m better oriented towards biotech than I am for nanotech. But does the first and second choice decisions really have an effect on whether or not you get in? I mean it’s risky, but I’m willing to take the risk if it means a higher chance of me getting accepted…</p>
<p>well the purpose of the second choice us when it is completely full and they want to accept to but can’t put you in your first choice so they go th your second choice (hoped that made sense) but if biotech, and nanotech were both full then you probably wouldn’t get in.(i’m just guessing here. I don’t know if they would call you and tell you if u would want to choose another program, or be held on a waiting list) I know for sure though that those two programs very popular and fill up fast.</p>
<p>check out the website frequently under the description of the programs and it will tell you if it is full or not.</p>
<p>My son received an acceptance letter (snail mail) for the Penn SAAST program today.</p>
<p>o really congratulations to your son. Well I am glad to hear that some acceptance letters are coming through snail mail. I was starting to kind of get worried. Hopefully those who have not received one yet will hear from Penn this week coming up since May is around the corner.</p>
<p>I certainly hope so. I applied for robotics/ computer science and still haven’t heard anything. I might not be getting in. Too bad I’m a Junior and won’t have another shot.</p>
<p>It’s probably because the only standardized test I took when I applied was a PSAT. I’ve since taken both the ACT and SAT and got in the 98-99% range. Should have done it a month earlier.</p>
<p>@ rocketblues: If you prefer Biology, put Biotechnology as your first choice. If you prefer Chemistry, put Nanotechnology first instead.</p>
<p>I called Penn today. I got accepted! They said it took them longer to look at the applicants that applied for FA, so the acceptance packages should arrive sometime this week.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got in! elec, what program did you get accepted into?</p>