<p>Ichigo is absolutely right. No matter how accomplished you are, RSI will humble you. The people from RSI '08 were absolutely all around great people- not just academically -so let your personality show. RSI will definitely be the best summer of your life.</p>
<p>Oh, also, you'll need to be able to pick up LaTeX skills quickly, work for 40+ hours straight, and promote a eugenics program despite the distorted ratio. Just joking, if you're selected, I'm sure you're more than capable of doing all these things, perhaps even simultaneously. Good luck 09ers.</p>
<p>RSI definitely has no affirmative action of any sort; you need to be qualified to get in. Last year I think there were about twice as many guys as girls, which I'd imagine is more or less proportional to how many of each applied (I'm not sure of that, though). Also, no one is guaranteed to get in to a program this selective. Personally, I found that was better to convince yourself that you will not get in; you will then be either unsurprised or overjoyed come decision time, instead of likely being distraught.</p>
<p>send my app today, now i'll just have to wait. but after reading the stats posted here by other cc people, i'm pretty convinced that my chance of getting in is like zero, oh well, i love science and it's worth a try.</p>
<p>ya i have no chance...btw how did you guys do something like 3...did you guys say a club/acitivity and elaborate it with 10 lines or just 2-3 lines (so in the 2-3 lines, you can list more acitvities)...i think i messed this section up big time...oh well it doesnt matter because i doubt i will get accepted.</p>
<p>if i get accepted it would obviously be amazing (unlike alot of the other applicants at the school, i do not do this 100% for college applicatrion), but i do not have the stats of even the other applicants of my school.</p>
<p>Well, for number 3, I only really mentioned a couple major activities and wrote a lot on each of them. I took more than half a page describing my research project, for example. I really don't have that many activities that demonstrate my math/science skill, but those which I do have happen to be very important to me. I don't think it's necessarily bad to do it the other way.</p>
<p>Again, I very much doubt I'll get accepted, so I'm just not going to worry about it.</p>
<p>yeah, all applicants are hit by a wave of rejection ( Im not going to get in) right after they send the application. I think im in the 5th stage - I was in the 3rd a while ago</p>
<p>Stages </p>
<ol>
<li>Intimidation</li>
<li>Hope</li>
<li>Extreme (OVER)Confidence</li>
<li>APPLY</li>
<li>I Cant get in</li>
<li>Letter of Admission or Rejection</li>
</ol>
<p>I don't think my lack of confidence is unrealistic. I'm basically average with math and science. Not actually average, but I'm definitely not up there. It's just a fact of life.</p>
<p>yea...i think i screwed up my essays, maybe i shoulda elaborated...i just put down an activity, then used about 2-3 sentences to say what i did in that activity/awards ive won/future activies...actually maybe not, i read somewehre someone else did that and they got it, maybe they are just looking for important details (they dont want you bsing about how community service changed my prosepctive on life forever...)</p>
<p>im on number 6 alraedy (for imustbecrazy's list)</p>
<p>and can you believe there are 7 people from my school applying??<br>
and 0 will get in rofl</p>
<p>^wow 7! gah anyone else have this mixed-nasty-gross-nauseous feeling of self-denial-ish that u just might have a possibility of getting u..but u know u will be majorly disappointed when the rejection comes??
my essays sucked..i regret not spending more time onthem</p>
<p>To Fluffy1: You don't have to do an essay for #5. If you look at the prompt again, it says to LIST everything below, which I assumed to be the checkboxes. The instructions also say not to answer anything on the sheet EXCEPT for #5, which means that 5 should fit on the paper they give you. Nice eh? I was way scared about that essay too for a while because I had no idea what to do, until I realized I really didn't have to do anything. :)</p>
<p>haha, oh, my bad. Yeah, I'm stuck on 5 too. No joke, the second I sealed the envelope and mailed it, I was like "what was I thinking?! I'll never make it in!" -.- Oh well. Now all there is to do is twiddle our thumbs and wait. Gah.</p>
<p>jk, but like 10 people from my school applied and probably none are getting in...no one with isef, usamo, or any of that. regardless, i think it was a great practice round for college apps and stuff.</p>
<p>ergh, so I was reading some of the 600 (!!) posts for this thread and everyone was talking about how their essays were/are really long. As in, barely fit in 3 pages. Mine were way shorter than that. Actually, they only really took up 2 pages. Is that bad?
Hence why I'm deep in stage 5 :'(</p>