<p>*Currently working on a quantum chemistry/ mechanics project dealing with finding a mechaism that would allow a proton to travel through an imidazole molecule (sort of based from the project that won the 2003 chemistry nobel prize with the aquaporins)
*Also working on a salamander phermone project dealing with quantifying their proteins
*2005 Intel ISEF finalist- zoology ( I didn't place, but I won a 1st place special award from Kodak)
*2005- Kentucky science fair 2nd place
*2004- Kentucky science fair 1st place
*All IB classes this year (calculus SL (school doesn't have HL), biology, english, TOK, physics, history, spanish) School doesn't offer AP, but I will independently study and take AP calculus, biology, and physics this year.<br>
*Haven't taken the PSAT's yet
*Know Qbasic (i know its outdated) and Visual Basic
*In addition, i'm the prez of FBLA, member of the math team (2nd in regional), quick recall, newspaper editor, girls group conselour and on the varsity swim team.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAAHAAAAA.....</p>
<p>hahahaahaaa</p>
<p>omg.</p>
<p>i really can't ****ing stop laughing.</p>
<p>thanks, suel, for the link to this thread. and thanks, vinayak, for starting this thread. :)</p>
<p><em>waves</em> hi everyone!!!</p>
<p>i won't have internet access at my house for another week, which is why i've been using the public library lately, which limits internet use to an hour per day. but anyway, i heard john kim's school accepted 3 people in '04 though only two went. </p>
<p>and i woudn't freak out about low SAT scores. some people have gotten in with scores that most rickoids would consider very low. but they might have, say, like uber research experience. and some people have very good SAT/PSAT/everything scores and an awesome gpa but no research experience at all. so it's not like you have to have good research potential AND good research background. one or the other should do. if you don't have either, haha i can't help you there.</p>
<p>one thing though, that i did notice, was that most people whom i asked what their rank was were at the top of their class at their school.</p>
<p>"Is geography an advantage at all? As in, not from Cali or east coast? How many girls have been there in recent years?"</p>
<p>I wouldn't say geography can work to your advantage, but it might work to your disadvantage if you're from Cali or the east coast, b/c they have upper limit caps on how many people from a certain state. but then they have no problem with accepting no one at all from a bunch of other states, so it's not really advantageous, just maybe disadvantageous, if that makes any sense, but please don't let this discourage you.</p>
<p>and they don't accept on race/gender, so there is a huge imbalance of boys to girls, like an approximate 2:1 ratio. and a huge imbalance of certain ethnicities to other ones, but i won't get into that.</p>
<p>At the top do you mean they make distinctions between Top 10 and #1 (Or say, top 5%? and #1?)? Is it that big of an issue? Because I'm #1 at the moment (I'm thinking), but I may drop a bit, and one of my main competitors is a good friend (Who will likely be #1), and he is also going to apply to RSI.</p>
<p>I don't think the apps even ask for class rank... but don't worry too much about being the first or top 10 or whatever. The apps contain so much more.</p>
<p>Rivetta... hey hey!</p>
<p>Your rank will be on the transcript your GC gives to send with the application. It shouldn't matter too much unless you are directly competing with someone (as I was).</p>
<p>SAT and PSAT scores only kinda show that you are smart enough to have a chance. What you really need is to show research potential. The response to question 2 needs to be very good, you need to show that you've gone above and beyond before (even if not in research, such as Matt R. who took AP Calc BC in 7th grade and others since them). The recs are also important here to show the same thing.</p>
<p>Btw, Rivetta, are you RSI05? How do you know my name if you're not?</p>
<p>Just wondering, but what does "poke" mean?</p>
<p>^ its a facebook thing</p>
<p>and shes Cindy dude, duh... no internet... hurricane...</p>
<p>Come on Cindy, you're supposed to be boycotting CC :P</p>
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Your rank will be on the transcript your GC gives to send with the application. It shouldn't matter too much unless you are directly competing with someone (as I was).</p>
<p>SAT and PSAT scores only kinda show that you are smart enough to have a chance. What you really need is to show research potential. The response to question 2 needs to be very good, you need to show that you've gone above and beyond before (even if not in research, such as Matt R. who took AP Calc BC in 7th grade and others since them). The recs are also important here to show the same thing.</p>
<p>Btw, Rivetta, are you RSI05? How do you know my name if you're not?
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<p>Yeah, it's likely I'll be competing against someone else, who will likely be val, while I'll be top 10 :-/. Actually, I may be competing with more than 1 person who is in the top 10. </p>
<p>I have done more "individual" stuff than him (building computers/fixing/selling them/programming my own games/programming counterstrike bots/superconductivity stuff/web applications and development/etc.), but he probably beats me out when it comes to GPA and stats.</p>
<p>How much of a difference would it make if I pulled a 230+ on my PSATs, while he pulled a 220+ (Not very much? :))?</p>
<p>I think when your scores are above 225 or so, it doens't really matter too much and is all the same. Or at least 230+.</p>
<p>Having done more individual stuff will help, ESPECIALLy if your teachers write about it (ask them to if you are comfortable).</p>
<p>Rank was on transcript? I don't think mine was. My school still doesn't know my rank... months afterwards. </p>
<p>I think stats only tell part of the story. Your activities tell more more about you.</p>
<p>Just as a point of reference, could all the people who went to RSI last year, or in the years past, post up what RSI saw in their app. Like grades, rank, SAT's, PSAT, Competitions, Research, Extra-Curics, and etc. Would be intersting to see.</p>
<p>Hey pyroman- I think most of that stuff was posted on this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=45631%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=45631</a>. Hope it helps.</p>
<p>I think my last post was ignored. -.-</p>
<p>So here it is again!</p>
<p>Does the field you declare on your application affect your chances of admission? I know I shouldn't chance my interests just to get in or anything, but I'm pretty flexible between biology and chemistry especially.</p>
<p>Also, are the only primary fields they're interested in biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and computer science? What about stuff like environmental science, earth science, zoology, etc. Would they just fall into the "biology" umbrella?</p>
<p>yes it does affect your chances of admission, in fact i put down neuroscience rather than nanotechnology because i felt they would have more available neuroscience mentors</p>
<p>and all that other stuff would fall under biology; w/e</p>
<p>How "accessible" is it if I put down Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, which is my first choice.</p>
<p>Ok guys, you definitely shouldn't change your field of interest to suit the application. I was interested in both nanotech and neurscience and wasn't sure about my first choice. Regardless, it doesn't matter too much because on the application it asks you to put down your field AND subfield. Therefore someone would put down Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence and if they wanted to accept you but didn't have an artificial intelligence mentor for you, they would put you in a different field of computer science. The same with Biology; w/e, and Math; w/e.
Also, I could be wrong. They might just accept people and then try to fit them with mentors afterwards. But it'd be ridiculous to think their thoughts on available mentors for your field had no bearing on your admission.
So basically, make sure you put down a general field, and then a specific subfield.</p>
<p>I understand what you're saying, but I mean would it help if I chose a related field in chemistry rather than biology, since I've heard that bio is very common. I definitely am more interested in bio than chem in terms of what I want to do in the future, but I'd rather get into RSI and do chem (my second choice) than not get in because I chose bio. :P</p>
<p>(Please don't hate me for saying that.)</p>
<p>no, since bio is common, they probably have more mentors in that area, chose bio</p>
<p>but theyll probably have lots of mentors for evey field, bio physics, chem, what they might not have is specific fields</p>