<p>lol i have zero research experience...i have no chance of getting in right?</p>
<p>@swim: I'm in your boat, no research experience. I'm just hoping that passionate + 36 ACT is enough, basically...
@roses: Yeah you'd be a minority in my classes too. Out of seven classes, three have zero white girls (AP Chemistry, AP Physics C: Emag, and AP CS A).</p>
<p>What is the anticipation index? I am getting more nervous for the results as the day approaches.</p>
<p>Kitty Kitty Kitt: Did you already hear from RSI saying that you got in???</p>
<p>What is the anticipation index? I am getting more nervous for the results as the day approaches.</p>
<p>Kitty Kitty Kitt: Did you already hear from RSI saying that you got in???</p>
<p>tebow15: i dunno what to say >.> u got like the superstar stats here... or at least compared to mine, i haven't got half of yours. so stop worrying.</p>
<p>anticipation index is just a number from 0 - 100 that you think describes how anticipated you are about RSI results, u kno, counting in how often a day RSI is on ur mind, how often you dream about it at night, etc. xD</p>
<p>RhineandRoses: I go to Rockville Evangelical Missions church in Maryland =D</p>
<p>Anticipation index = 89</p>
<p>Gah!!! I want to stop think about it, because I know I'm not going to get in, and I need to finish my applications for the other programs I'm applying to instead!!</p>
<p>I've promised myself to not freak out and obsessively check the mailbox until march 20th.</p>
<p>which i totally won't follow through with.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that it hasn't come earlier than the 21st in the last four years ( I checked. Yeah...), I've already told my parents that I'll be more than glad to be the one to bring the mail in 'til it comes. Anticipation index is still mid-70s here. I'm waiting for the first person to break 100 in violation of all laws of physics</p>
<p>haha I'm up to 85-ish.
Many of my friends found out about MIT decisions yesterday... which made it more nerve-wracking to have to wait for my most important letter this year (well minus MIT EA I guess.. maybe.)</p>
<p>anticipation index = 71.31415</p>
<p>ugh, with people like tebow15 applying to this thing, it feels like this is turning into some sort of superhero camp. i mean, c'mon, how can anybody compete with that? it's ridiculous... why apply if you've already found your way in the sciences? any college will accept you with that: Harvard, MIT, you name it...but its the average smart people who want to put RSI on their resume as a measure of their talent who get bumped out. </p>
<p>seriously, even though i'm very excited for the letter to come (soon please!!), i'm not gonna feel any less for getting a rejection.</p>
<p>RSI ISN'T A RESUME BULLET POINT!!!
sorry. just rsi is an amazing experience that i would really love to be a part of. i'm not applying for the prestige or for the nod in at top colleges; i'm applying for a real chance to participate in research in some of the best labs out there and a chance to meet all of you guys who love science.
/rant.</p>
<p>I have a hard time believing you fully feel that way. I don't completely disbelieve you; I've met one person who I'd believe if she said that, and I've certainly not met the world. (she got a tasp interview.) While I can see that there's good in applying alone and that the program itself will/would be amazing, I think that virtually all of us here want RSI for a combination of reasons, amongst them certainly the prestige and validation, plus everything you feel. I figure many of us are as stressed as I am, give or take, so I'll say it: please, realize we're human. We're driven by competition, love for science, acronyms, self-doubt, arrogance, everything.</p>
<p>i totally agree.
i'm sick of all the kids at my school who are:
a) underachievers
b) insecure people who pretend to be "smart" for recognition
c) whining, bitter, just plain negative girls
d) annoying guys</p>
<p>and i want to meet awesome, smart, cool, funny people at rsi!</p>
<p>addition to my rant and @vp:
for reals. People at my school are boring and dumb. Heck, even most of the relatively smart ones are boring. </p>
<p>@class: I'm not angry, sorry if I came across that way. APUSH is the devil.</p>
<p>yes, i'd like to slap the hobo that came up with the idea of an APUSH class.</p>
<p>seriously, dbqs and frqs are so annoying!</p>
<p>worse than APUSH: To fit in the fourth of my AP sci's this year (if you'll count CS as a sci, but w/e), I had to take it online. Brilliant me decides to do the 12 week version. Yeah...</p>
<p>yay cramming for aps :) i'm... self-studing ap physics.. yeah, great decision, i know. :)</p>
<p>@DMR + Raneff
Sorry if I came across as harsh, but I really do feel very strongly about this subject.
See, I've been to my share of summer programs... I haven't not done an academic summer program since I was 6. Of course, when I was younger, it was much more of the enrichment-type, where creative writing would be combined with cooking and reading with art projects. However, in the past few years, I have been to more challenging programs, and I have to say that it is quite a different environment from that of my small town white suburbia high school. Many of the students at my school don't care about academics at all; many will live in this town forever. When I spend my summers away, I unveil much of who I really am and I really get a sense of what life will be like in college and afterwards (I, personally, plan on moving out of this town after college... no offense to my town). Summer camp has become second (&third&fourth&fifth..) homes to me.
I'm applying to RSI, because I don't want to be left out in the cold (well.. hot) sun this summer. I want to be involved in the lectures and in the projects. I want to be able to randomly allude to asimov and kant and not have people stare at me. I want to be able to go somewhere and meet new people.
I understand how selective RSI is to get into, and that's why I applied to other science camps. But RSI is still my first choice. It still draws the biggest applicant pool; it still is the most well-known; it still will have the all of the olympiad winners that aren't going to the training camps.
I have to admit that the prestige of RSI does add to its draw, but it's not the main focus by far. I personally know I will attend a good college, and I am guaranteed in at a particular graduate school given decent grades in college based on connections (whether I use these connections or not is another matter). I personally don't care about media or glory or... (I was about to say pride, but I do care about pride). RSI does have that prestige factor, and it is a great aspect of it, and if I get in and it adds points to my resume, YAYYY. But even if summer programs didn't matter for anything, I would still apply for RSI with the same enthusiasm as I have now. Girrrrrr- I can explain my feelings easily logically but words make it hard to explain:</p>
<p>If "Summer Programs Matters for College", then
RSI = funsciprogram + awesomeppl + prestige
Other programs = funsciprogram + (awesomeppl-lessawesome) + (prestige-lessprestige)</p>
<p>Else:
RSI = funsciprogram + awesomeppl
Other programs = funsciprogram + (awesomeppl-lessawesome) </p>
<p>either way, assuming all variables are positive... RSI > other programs.</p>
<p>btw, please excuse my horrible half vb, half python, half english syntax... make that 1/3 of each.</p>
<p>So... I guess my overall point is that, prestige should not be the motivating factor.</p>
<p>Now that I can agree to. I did my states governor's school program (GA). I totally relate to wanting to get out part of that. The people there were just the best people I've ever met. I also see it as a minicollege experience. Despite living like an hour from the closest of them, I actually hang out with them more often that my school friends. There's just something about being able to obsess over turning a sphere inside out then go play on a merry go round while nearly vomitting and discussing the moment of inertia of the merry go round as affected by said vomitting...in short, yeah. All us sci geeks need to get together.</p>
<p>and I hate APUSH too.
Well... hate's a strong word. It's just a lot of useless busywork and all of the reading. The writing/ analyzing, thinking, learning parts I like. I'm still deciding whether to take euro next year. It's supposedly an amazing course at my school, but my dad considers it useless if I am going to go into the math/sciences. Personally, I would really like to take it. I'm just not sure if I want the workload.</p>
<p>and yeah :)
wouldn't that be like
1/2 mr^2... mass stays the same.. radius increases... I goes up?
or... conservation of momentum... blah.
okay nighty time. JETS in the morning.</p>
<p>BTW. do you guys think that I should even bother with a second update letter with new awards? It seems so close to decisions time, I don't know if it's too late or if my awards are even important enough (nothing past the state level...)</p>
<p>@ raneff: it's the way i see it too!</p>