<p>One more question,
Is it a good idea to include "non-strucured" activities, like hobbies, under the Sci-EC's and hobbies section, or will it just be percieved as desperate? Examples of these things are: a) I built a motor b) I build robots regularly, and learned C so that I could program them c) I program "widgets" for my computer, and used this to learn xml/js.</p>
<p>include it; it shows initiative</p>
<p>Also, will National Science Bowl help or should I just forget about persuading my science teacher to register for it? Is Science Olympiad more important? While the National Science Bowl is prestigious to an extent, it is based purely on factual recall and not on reasoning. Meanwhile, Science Olympiad is actually hands-on - could it be even more beneficial than the other olympiads?</p>
<p>Also, research papers are important; so what about recognition in the DuPont Science Essay contest?</p>
<p>Finally, will a 5 in AP Chem and a SAT II Chem score in the 700s make up for a 'B' in Honors Chem? (I haven't taken the exam yet and cannot anticipate my score yet; but am frantically self-studying it) The class isn't graded in a matter that would benefit me - I have A's in AP Calc and such; and Chem isn't difficult at all.</p>
<p>yo guys is the app even up yet? i just checked cee and i could only find the 2004 application. does anybody know when its going to be available?</p>
<p>and guys just apply lol seriously. what it comes down to is, if u want to apply, then apply. if u dont, then dont. dont really worry whether u have a chance or not....whats the point? let them decide whether u do. put down everything u can think of that might help u and cross ur fingers. all this worrying about regions and sat scores and whatnot is just going to make u paranoid.</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing about the application. The site says "click here to download the 2005 application" or something to that extent, but it IS for 2004. Do they use the same questions every year? Unfortunatly even if they do, I'll still end up putting it off, no matter how much I want to participate. :( lol...I cant help it...</p>
<p>Reasonable- I don't know how they achieve geographic diversity, but I can tell you that last summer three of the MIT Rickoids came from the state of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>I did really bad sophomore year overall, but this is because my father was on a respirator and I pretty much slept in the hospital right beside him for 5 months, do you think if I mix that into my essay they will mind?</p>
<p>3 came from penn; 6 came from NY and CA</p>
<p>how many from mich.?</p>
<p>How much will RSI frown on your application if you live near a univ. or 2 and have NOT found a professor to get an internship with, even doing little things? The universities I live by don't even let ANY freshman that go to the university have these. I'm working on finding a prof anyways, but it is obviously difficult. (I'm guessing that all places are like this but you guys found exceptions- Am i correct?)
Also~
Would they care that i did alg 1+2 in 6th grade, while participating in a program that had an acceptance rate of ~10% of all students in the state who were recommended by their teachers to do so 2or3 per school, or was that too long ago (i am guessing that it was)?</p>
<p>Random - you'll want to list all of the high school math courses you completed in middle school, but I really don't think they want honors from that far back, so I wouldn't go into detail on the 6th grade program. They are going to be much more interested in what you've done during the past 3-1/2 years. If you did alg 1&2 in 6th grade, you should have done calc in 9th, maybe, and now college math courses? That's much more impressive than what your 5th or 6th grade teacher recommended.</p>
<p>Thx texas, that's what i thought, but unfortunatly I'm only now starting calc, I skipped 7th grade (it was WAY too easy) then the head of the math dept refused to let me take pre-calc until i took an extra trig class because I didn't take Alg. at my current school... That didn;t make me too terribly happy... Thx.</p>
<p>Random - Not everyone who goes to RSI has prior research experience. My son didn't. It's hard for a high school student to arrange an internship of any kind at a university. Profs usually have their hands full with the regular students. Even if a prof was willing to have you, there may be liability concerns about someone who is neither a student nor an employee working in a lab or having access to any data or equipment. But the colleges near you may still be a useful resource. See if they have any programs open to the public, summer programs you would be eligible for, or check into taking or auditing a class. You certainly should be able to dual enroll somewhere after you have exhausted the math offerings at your high school. If you're only in calc AB, consider self-studying the extra material and taking the BC exam in the spring. That would almost certainly put you beyond your high school's offerings.</p>
<p>Thanks again texas,
I am taking Calc at the local college, and next sem. it will be calc 2, it this the equivilant of Ap Calc AB or BC; I have never quite figured that one out...
Thanks.</p>
<p>take the AP exam even if you will have college credit. Some colleges (Harvard is one) will give you credit for the AP but not for the course taken at a college while you are a high school student. If the college has a 3 semester calc sequence, the third semester is usually multivariable, which is not on either AP exam.You should probably be able to take calc BC exam after the college calc 2 course.</p>
<p>Can participating in a study like the abovementioned help?</p>
<p>how will it help? Just because they used you as a test subject doesn't differentiate between you and everyone else</p>
<p>lol what a funny question.</p>
<p>anyone know when the app came out last year for RSI?</p>
<p>Well... Test subjects can give one an idea of what goes on in actual research. Plus, it also means that you've helped in research.</p>
<p>But then, perhaps a better idea is to volunteer as a test subject, opening up relations with the professor. Then in turn, contact the professor to see if you can help out. So volunteering as a test subject can serve as a bridge from nothing to actual research.</p>