<p>Good post, Donald. I wish you the best of luck.</p>
<p>Be proud of your SAT and PSAT scores; you probably got smacked with the fish that is the curve. I'd kill for those scores (I'mm a full 100 points lower than you!) and your comfort level in a lab environment.</p>
<p>It would be fun indeed to send your app in with an MIT addy. It would confuse them like heck.</p>
<p>On that Math 730 thing, I 100% share your pain(and score)...</p>
<p>Hopefully though, in the end people will realize that an applicant is more than numbers. There is a personality(or lack of), a creative mind, a caring soul(or otherwise), and 'demonstrated abilities'. </p>
<p>I think and hope that our demonstrated interest in science and engineering(or what have you) is what is going to be the deciding point. I personally would choose someone who maintains high academic standards year round and comes off as totally passionate, than someone who simply has good numbers. Numbers cannot grasp the whole story. I am sure MIT realizes that the difference between a 800 math and a 750 or 730 is only one or two questions wrong. Needless to say, you really cant make any real justifications off of a single wrong answer.</p>
<p>Yes I agree "failure is not an option", but missing one or two(or omitting) is certainly not failure, and that we should be proud of our achievements(both score based and not).</p>
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<p>P.S.- Am I the only one who absolutely cannot wait until the end of march? I hate the waiting game.</p>
<p>God bless!</p>
<p>I hear that they mail the acceptance letters in huge yellow envelopes while the rejection ones come in plain envelopes. Can anyone confirm this?</p>
<p>Also, I think the letters come out sometime around mid-March.</p>
<p>earlier it was mentioned that in 2005 the acceptance letters came in big envelopes and rejection small envelopes, but in 2006 all letters were the same size. who knows how it'll go this year.</p>
<p>I can see the adcom having fun with that..."Just for fun, let's put the letter in 3 layers of envelopes."</p>
<p>corinao: srry I meant RSI 05, since he is MIT 10. He is most def not white lol
donaldguy: You can chill. I think thinking about it will improve my chances haha</p>
<p>Hopefully this year, the acceptance letters will come with a porche delivered by the girl of your dream asking out on a date. The rejection letters will be parachuted down into the chimney and burn itself.</p>
<p>HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!</p>
<p>Do colleges other than MIT acknowledge RSI, or is this just an MIT thing?</p>
<p>hahaha. that would be hilarious. they could mess with your psyche (although that would be mean) by putting the rejections in a big envelope. i doubt it that will happen though.
btw. the rsi admin letter isn't that positive either. i was well into the third paragraph before i even realized i was accepted. the first two were describing how great the program was, and i was thinking in the back of my mind, how cruel you are to tell me how great rsi is only to reject me (luckily that didn't happen ;)).</p>
<p>Oh wow, thanks for the warning vanilea. I had been planning on squeezing my eyes shut the day the letter came, peeking at the first line, and if it doesn't say congratulations, throw it into the garbage immediately. Haha... ah, waiting is so nerve racking, but I'm so busy with school and RSI is constantly lurking in the back of my mind. I must repeat, "I want to go to RSI so bad" at least two or three times every five minutes.</p>
<p>LOL:</p>
<p>"Hopefully this year, the acceptance letters will come with a porche delivered by the girl of your dreams asking you out on a date. The rejection letters will be parachuted down into the chimney and burn itself."</p>
<p>Wouldn't be awesome if the rejection letters came as howlers (HP reference, thank you) but either letter came with an owl? Oh, I would love owl mail...</p>
<p>I heard that normal MIT sends out decesions for undergrad on Pi Day(a runmor I heard).</p>
<p>THAT Would be sweet to hear on Pi Day!</p>
<p>Everyone loves Pi Day!</p>
<p>I also have the "must get into RSI" mantra going. Also sent off a quick prayer to Athena, asking Her to allow me to convene with one of the greatest monuments to Her name (the MIT campus network) ^_^. (Since I actually am of a sort of neopagan (amongst other things) persuasion, anyway (enough that if I go to MIT I will probably be a member of the MIT Pagan Students Group ( <a href="http://www.mit.edu/activities/psg/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mit.edu/activities/psg/</a> ), I was only partially joking (my believes are such that I think if She exists and was listening, She probably thought it was funny) (anyway, probably too much information) ...</p>
<p>If I got a big thick packet and then opened it to find "thank you for applying but unfortunately..." .. I'd cry .. then drive to the CEE offices in McLean (about 3 and a half hours away according to Google Maps) and slap whoever is in charge of sending out the letters... but I doubt they'd be that mean.. I'll just get the small letter that says that -_- .. </p>
<p>And I said we SHOULD chill, I didn't say I was.</p>
<p>I have a friend who got into MIT early.. and they are being really nice to her.. (and I assume they are to everyone) .. they sent her a voucher to the CO-OP, a tube of confetti, a magnet, and a poster with her acceptance letter. This month they sent her a Valentine's Day card with information about chemical composition of chocolate (Theobromine, Caffeine, etc)</p>
<p>I'm so jealous ..</p>
<p>vanilea - thank you so much.</p>
<p>I applied. I hope I get in. It sounds just like incredible learning experience. It will be hard, I'm sure, but I have yet to hear one credible bad thing about RSI.</p>
<p>Which is more than I can say about a few other programs.</p>
<p>donadlGuy, I know what you mean. My friend got into MIT early too, and he was telling me about how they sent him an awesome holiday card and valentine's day card, and I actually saw the poster that came with the admission letter. It had the dome and the rowing team and it was all blue and pretty, and a faint floorplan or nuclear reactor plan, or some kind of plan was in the background. Ah, I'd love to have it on my wall. He had it laminated, haha. MIT's definitely my first choice, I kind of wish I'd switch lives with him right about now, lol.</p>
<p>Though, of course, an equally awesome thing would be getting into RSI... I must keep on hoping =)</p>
<p>Well, I think a couple years ago, the decisions came out around march 14.</p>
<p>Oh man, wouldn't it be cool if decisions came out one April Fools Day?</p>
<p>alohasam89: Other colleges definitely know that RSI exists and they acknowledge that fact, especially Caltech and other locations where it has been held. Harvard, too, of course, since it's right down the street. and any of the major schools, they all know about it. Rice was very interested when they found out I went to RSI. :-)</p>
<p>MIT looks to be the only college to go out of there way materialistically when it comes to your acceptance (I got the poster, confetti, all that jazz). Everywhere else just sent me a folder and pieces of paper informing me of big scholarships. ;-)</p>
<p>Rice is nice because they waive the application fee for Rickoids :)</p>
<p>oh, so it wasn't just me then? </p>
<p>:-)</p>
<p>well i got an email saying they think rsi is cool, so they'll just waive the fee for us. i assumed everyone got it? ummm. i just realized something horrible. terrible. i did not send my teacher recs to rice yet! i applied on a whim right before christmas, and it just slipped my mind that i needed teacher recs. alda;ldkjal;djajdflakjdlkj t.g. it's common app</p>