<p>It asked for principal</p>
<p>NEWS: 32 rickoids made it into INTEL STS SEMIFINALS.</p>
<p>w00t! </p>
<p>and just because I really love korean!</p>
<p>짱</p>
<p>짱 is good (my last name = 장 ~ 짱)
hehe
ANyway, all you Rickoids, do you remember a TANNER Amdur-Clark @ RSI 2004??
if it's true, it is all too crazy (i thought nobody even KNEW about RSI @ our school)</p>
<p>was he at RSI Caltech? because he sure didn't attend RSI MIT 2004</p>
<p>question, static of frankenchris or whomever was a past rickoid. on the app it says "$25 processing fee" and you can either check the box that you included it or there's another box beside it that says "waive the fee"</p>
<p>i don't know about you guys, but if that's for real and i really don't have to pay the fee.. i mean... $25 dollah ain't much but it's not as awesome as $0. </p>
<p>Is the waive fee thing only for the lower middle classers? or can i just check it and not pay the fee?</p>
<p>you need a reason why you can't pay the fee. Can't just check it off without an explanation. Last year, I checked the fee waiver box and sent them a letter saying my family makes "4,000 a year, and we're on welfare, food stamp, housing subsidies, etc."</p>
<p>thanks static for answering. It might have been listed inside the brochure, I'm not sure. I kinda skimmed the brochure quickly. Thanks ^___^</p>
<p>im really interested in doing scientific research at rsi, but my background is more liberal artsy- most of my extracurricular's are jsa (im a senator for the state) and asb vp - so im more developed in leadership and politics backgrounds. but, im taking calc ab and ap chem this year, along with honors bio, and i got a 212 on the psat and an 800 on the spanish sat 2 (a 5 on the CS AB and Spanish, and a 4 on the art history ap last year)- im taking sat 2's in chem, math 2c, and us, and the ap exams in calc ab, chem, and us. i know rsi is looking for diversity, but something tells me a kid who thinks of science as less mechanical and more of an art might not be the kind of diversity their looking for. is it worth my time to apply?</p>
<p>sure it is, i was just like you
i also tend to view science as more of an art and tho i always felt most interested in science, at the time i applied to rsi almost all of my ecs were in the humanities
just write good essays and let them see your passion for science</p>
<p>When it asks the field and subfield of research in which I want to work, do I have to know a lot about those areas?</p>
<p>you have to know something about it...but nowhere near a PhD</p>
<p>sorry but that's a bit vague?
so if i want to do electrical engineering yet know nothing about it...
and i'm really good at math/have a pretty good interest in it...</p>
<p>I should choose math?</p>
<p>I don't know if this will help, but I put virology for my first choice (I know only the basics, but am very interested in it) and organic chem for my second choice (I know a decent amount about it).</p>
<p>I am filling out my application and I have a question as to the essay/question portion of the application:</p>
<p>In question 2, it asks you do state your choices of research in which you want to research as well as 3-5 interesting questions/problems and why they are interesting to you. I'm not sure if the latter part is asking for limitations/problems/difficulties/obstacles in your field of current research or problems in the general scope of the field (personal experience, social issues, etc) ?</p>
<p>Alice: It's open to interpetation, people that have been accepted have done it both ways. Choose the one you like best! Either way, the purpose of the question will be fufilled :-)</p>
<p>altairaqua, Vintor : You need to know something about your research. Afer all you're going to be doing RESEARCH. RSI is very much a learning experience, but you need <em>some</em> base. However, you should put down what you love and what you want to study, not what you think would get you accepted.</p>
<p>Should we mention old awards that we won in our response to questions on the essay? Like I won something in Math League for sixth grade and seventh grade at Delaware, my old state. However, I wonder if that would negatively affect my appearance since I've stopped being involved in Math League when I moved to CA after seventh grade.</p>
<p>nah don't put stuff just to fluff your application</p>
<p>is #2 asking for more than one choice?</p>
<p>can you put two fields and two subfields down?</p>
<p>you can do whatever you want.</p>