<p>of the top ten at INTEL, RSI took places 3, 4, and 10.</p>
<p>Gah! The only real accomplishments I have is in MUN. I entered siemens, but didn't get very far(as in nothing ;) ). I'm continuing my research in AI, but I'm also joining the Research Chemistry class, so I can get exposure to other fields. </p>
<p>If I have a good project in chem and computer science, which should I apply to for RSI?</p>
<p>"All I'm saying is that it seems that if you haven't done some serious research, placed statewide at least in some math or science competition, or gotten a near perfect score on some Collegeboard standardized test, you better hope you can think like Newton and write like Shakespeare when completing that app."</p>
<p>So what qualifies as serious research? Winning Siemens/Intel? I am pretty sure serious research takes years. One professor I'm conversing with took 10 years to publish a paper. </p>
<p>Research doesn't depend on winning competitions and acing standardized tests. Its about asking questions, and taking initiative to solve them. I didn't work at a lab for my project, and I'm not planning to either this year. I think the experience I get from working everything out myself is a bigger benefactor than getting a prof to do half the project and win me a competition. Sure, I will ask some profs to review some ideas I have periodically.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't think that's how you get into RSI, beasting standardized tests, and state competitions. I think they want to see what kinds of questions you ask. What you have done on your part to try and approach them.</p>
<p>From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - "Perhaps it isn't that you have the wrong answer, but that you are asking the wrong question."</p>
<p>Well...none of us are qualified to know what they are looking for.</p>
<p>Good point though sagar.....</p>
<p>(out of all the things to quote, you quoted Hitchhiker's Guide....hahaha)</p>
<p>im not modest :-D</p>
<p>i concur with that</p>
<p>42! It's the answer to life, universe, and everything. Thus, your application should have 42 plastered all over it.</p>
<p>hahahahaha</p>
<p>what you need to do, is type your app in latex, and in a footer, (that appears on every page) have "Last Name, Presented in TeX, 42" you can't loose!</p>
<p>unless you get rejected for being a weirdo and labeling each one of your pages 42.... </p>
<p>in which case you can loose....</p>
<p>Sagar,</p>
<p>Choose the field that you like the best. From what it seems like to me, I would say CS since you're just starting a chem project. Prior research is good in two equal parts for the RSI app: 1) winning awards is cool (sorry you didn't win any. But, 2) your questions will be stellar in that field. So it wasn't a waste to do all that work!</p>
<p>omg zogoto almost has as many posts as i do...what the hell.</p>
<p>Go vinayak! (sorry nghi... have to favor the '05ers) =P</p>
<p>Who's firedragon?</p>
<p>And yeah I DO have as many posts as you almost. hahaha. It started this summer when I really wanted to get up to 1000, and now i use CC to procrastinate college apps.</p>
<p>I can't remember if I asked this question before, so I apologize if I have, but do the teacher recommendation questions stay the same from year to year? Just curious because my teachers are spread accross 2 states and one other country so I would like to get started if I could in asking them to write the recs.</p>
<p>hehe... any guesses? Think PEOPLE!</p>
<p>Psh, I have more posts than any of you.</p>
<p>Actually it began when I was bored over the summer. I'd created an account months ago, but I had like .01 posts/day and I was like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if I had like 15 posts/day all the time!?" or something, so I made a new username. Then I maintained 15+ posts/day over the summer (ok, I was REALLY bored...). Now I've dropped down to like 14.55, but whatever.</p>
<p>Who IS firedragon? Are you RSI?</p>
<p>yes i am... think fenrir =P</p>
<p>charles???</p>
<p>me == owner of fenrir != charles</p>