<p>Excuses? I am merely stating the obvious: RSI admission is a crapshoot given such a low acceptance rate and given the number of highly qualified applicants. No excuses, just facts.</p>
<p>Vanilea, Spudmanka, </p>
<p>"Back up" as in: I am not counting on admission beacuse as I have stated already, "RSI admission is a crapshoot given such a low acceptance rate and given the large number of highly qualified applicants."</p>
<p>Please read more carefully.</p>
<p>Spudmanka,</p>
<p>It is rather childish of you to think of my stating the facts as "bashing." I am merely pointing out the flaws, pros, and cons to competitive and similar summer programs for everyone's knowing. What you make of that is your choice. This is a discussion forum, after all, and it would not be interesting without stimulating conversation. But please accept my apology for "bashing" your pride.</p>
<p>pp, I read your post too and thought the same thing. You're acting a bit obnoxious, so I suggest you stop. I don't like being mean online, but seriously, you're offending everyone.</p>
<p>what other programs have you guys looked at?
i know another good one is garcia. one person at rickoid did a project that got him to Siemens Nationals at garcia. if the application isn't due, i would definitely recommend applying there.</p>
<p>Hi,
Thanks for answering my question. The question component of the application was meant to assist admission officers, or whoever, to place students with proper mentors - but is it probably that those who attend RSI do a project on exactly what one of their questions was?</p>
<p>it's actually highly unlikely you will work on what you wrote about in your app. i know many questions that people wrote were in general age old quandries that, despite years of research, scientists have still not figured out. the chances that a high school student can answer a millenium problem in six weeks is unlikely. the questions are just to see where your interests in science lies, and how in depth they are.
in general, questions about "whether god created man" or "why my (fill in blank with anybody part) hurts" are not that great.</p>
<p>"I am merely pointing out the flaws, pros, and cons to competitive and similar summer programs for everyone's knowing. What you make of that is your choice. This is a discussion forum, after all, and it would not be interesting without stimulating conversation."</p>
<p>It is rather tiresome restating myself. Please read more carefully.</p>
<p>this has already been discussed, but just by looking at the stats of last year's students, you will see that which state they came from mattered very little.
Only 25 states were represented. if regional aa was an issue, more than half of the states would be represented.
also, the government funding thing just really affects dod (departement of defense) students. there are special spots reserved for them. but then again, that doesn't really matter, because the awesomeness of the dod students would have gotten them in even if they weren't dod.</p>
<p>two people from Idaho is GREAT!! more than great, it's fantastic! i loved the potato chips you and marie passed out at international night :D! RSI wouldn't have been the same w/o you and the harem obtaining marie ;).</p>
<p>hahaha sorry kyle, i didn't mean it as a bad thing. it's just that idaho is such a small (pop.-wise) state. i'd be equally surprised if there were 2 people from arizona or s. dakota or whatever. so this backs my opinion that there is no state-by-state quota - everybody gets in on their own merits and not geographical location.</p>
<p>receive them on the 31st. but beware! in recent years, decisions have arrived to prospective rickoids' mailboxes as early as the 26th. (mwahahaha, now that week before the 31st will be most restless)</p>
<p>Same for us at TASP, but just a little sooner.</p>
<p>So, do any of you know how the Cornell biotech kids interact with the TASP kids? There are so many summer groups at that university. I want to know if the science and math kids hang out with the humanities kids who hang out with the art kids and the general admission people.</p>
<p>also...the letter could come in a regular sized envelope or a large one. last year it was a regular, and the year before large...you never know. i like it this way, it adds to the suspense.</p>