<p>@ndnbe4st: yes, sorry for leaving off my little @ sign. I have horrific forum etiquette. (but I’m getting better! see ^_^) I posted my subfields farther up: engineering electrical and biology cellular.</p>
<p>@tsubomi: well, at the very least, I definitely know people who know you.</p>
<p>Oh okay. By the way just an opinion question… but do we compete against people to get in first or does category competition play in too? Like does it matter what category you put? If I and someone else put the same category will we be more compared than I would be to other people?</p>
<p>hmm, would any Rickoids be able to answer that question ^
I think there must be some kind of category quota. after all, they can’t have all math students, or biology students, or anything like that. There are only so many mentors available in each field…</p>
<p>Hmm I hope that what I apply for wouldn’t be too full… that would be a lame way to get thrown out just because of the category being full… regardless of qualifications.</p>
<p>I’m not applying (too young), but I’ve been going on these threads for a v. long time.
I think your category is mainly to place you with a mentor; I’ve heard of students getting placed with a mentor in a different field b/c their app field was too full. If you’re talented enough, it seems they’ll find a way.
Compromising economic situations seem to be a definite plus as well. I don’t remember who, but there’s someone on this thread w/ some kind of situation.
Prior research is also pretty important generally if it corresponds to your field of interest.
good luck to all</p>
<p>@att159 - too young? there’s no age limit in RSI and I’m pretty sure people have gotten in who weren’t juniors in high school. But I get what you mean.</p>
<p>I thought a requirement of the program was that you have to be a rising senior? or the summer before your final year of high school.</p>
<p>yeah thats the age requirement. you must be finished with junior year, going into senior year.</p>
<p>Hmm so anyway what do you guys/girls do for fun? Play any games?</p>
<p>@ndnbe4st - I friggin pwn at muggle quidditch. Best chaser in Texas.</p>
<p>@Enigma - what do you say about Kit Armstrong then?</p>
<p>@ndnbe4st
I snowboard 
best sport ever.</p>
<p>@ragster - i think he’s an exception seeing as he went to college at the age of 10…</p>
<p>^ sorry to break the interesting convo but omg screwed for the app. no computer experience. and so much pressure on the essays <__<</p>
<p>just wanted to announce that :)</p>
<p>continueee</p>
<p>haha I don’t have computer experience either. From what I heard, we learn LaTeX the first week, and most of the others are for compsci research projects…</p>
<p>starting the essays now (which are the 1-2 paragraphs per question right?) </p>
<p>ALSO… it says answer questions 3- 8 separately… where’s question 8? (LOL) sigh i bet i’m the last on this forum to start my essays…</p>
<p>haha I noticed that too. There are only 7 questions, right?</p>
<p>Don’t worry, potentenum. I just started too. -_-</p>
<p>Kinda unrelated: Does it look good (not just for RSI, but for apps in general) if you self-study AP’s? My school doesn’t offer any. This year I’m self-studying Bio, Chem, CompSciBC and Micro.</p>
<p>Well, best of luck guys.</p>
<p>^ yep, ESPECIALLY if your school doesn’t offer any. shows initiative, independence, pursuit of learning. :)</p>
<p>i’m submitting a PSAT superscore… </p>
<p>so i’m photocopying like 2 PSAT score reports. should i black out the scores I don’t want to be considered?</p>
<p>did they ever say you could superscore? but in any case, they said they really dont care about test scores</p>