<p>tokenadult: I found other RSI 2007 related questions in different threads under "summer programs". Is it possible to put them all in one place if no objections from others?
Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>The solution I adopted to the multiplying threads was to put links to this thread, like this </p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=250360%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=250360</a> </p>
<p>into other threads, especially threads in other forums. It's a free country, and participants in the CC forums can do as they like, but I thought it would be a convenience to readers to find most questions and answers about any one summer program in one thread in this Summer Programs Forum. </p>
<p>As for previously asked questions in threads that have sunk to far-back pages, I suppose you or anyone else would be doing other readers (including the OPs in those threads) a favor by copying and pasting those questions into new posts in this thread. (Well, all right, "this thread" is just my friendly suggestion, but I agree with your concern that old questions that haven't been discussed thoroughly deserve to be noticed and discussed, and agree with your implicit idea that there shouldn't be a whole lot of different threads on the same subject.) </p>
<p>Best wishes to everyone applying this year.</p>
<p>tokenadult, you might want to look at these:</p>
<p>Offers offers college credit, room and board at no cost:
<a href="http://www.clarku.edu/admissions/specialprograms/summerscienceprogram/index.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://www.clarku.edu/admissions/specialprograms/summerscienceprogram/index.cfm</a></p>
<p>This one is cheap, you pay for a meal ticket and some small amount of fees, tuition, room, etc. is free. <a href="http://www.baylor.edu/summerscience/%5B/url%5D">http://www.baylor.edu/summerscience/</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the links to other, inexpensive summer programs in science for the kind of young people who might like to apply to RSI.</p>
<p>Tokenadult, these may have already been posted, but it won't hurt to list them again. This is from Matt's MIT blog. I don't know anything about cost.<br>
<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/summer_programs/other_summer_programs.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/summer_programs/other_summer_programs.shtml</a></p>
<p>Regarding Part II questions:</p>
<p>Q1. long range goals
Are they asking for educational goals (degrees), career goals (professions), or both? How specific or general should I be?</p>
<p>Q2. research interests
The instruction says "limit your responses to one or two paragraphs per question"
It doesn't look like that they want a very elaborate essay, does it? How long should it be for this question?</p>
<p>Do I need to discuss 3-5 questions for both of my choices or just the primary one?</p>
<p>If the answers are used to match mentors with students, then they will probably be read by the mentors in the fields as well as by the admission officers. What do you think?
thanks!</p>
<p>yeah I'm wondering..when they say first and second choice...does that mean your primary and sub field or both of those x2?</p>
<p>racer818-</p>
<p>Q1. you can write about either. I wrote about both. My answers were not too specific, but alluded to the research interests that i had listed. </p>
<p>Q2. research interests
A paragraph for each interest is usually suficient. Discuss questions for bother interest. I don't think you need as many as five questions per interest. I think I wrote about 3 for each interest. Take the response to your second interest as seriously as you take the response to your primary interest because you never know which one you will be matched into. I think it's a plus if the questions are interesting and not too technical, but specific enough so that the admins know you're not just ranting. </p>
<p>I may be wrong on this, but I don't believe your essays will be read by a mentor in that field. They only show the essays to the mentors AFTER you have been accepted to RSI so that the mentors can decide who they want in their lab.</p>
<p>So that means I need 3 questions for biology and 3 questions for myology? (my subfield)</p>
<p>Vanilea, Thank you very much! It's important to know who read Q2. I imagine that many RSI admins have some backgrounds in science, even though they might not be experts as the mentors are. Your suggestion, to be "interesting but not too technical", sounded good to me.</p>
<p>So the three questions in biology can be about anything bio-related while the second set has to be related to the sub field, right?</p>
<p>piccolojunior,
i probably wasn't clear with my last response, but this is what I really mean (sorry about that). For biology (field) and myology (sub), you need about three questions TOTAL. The questions should be more myology oriented, rather than broad bio questions.
I think RSI wants to know what your field is because if they can't match you within the specific subfield, they want to at least place you within that field.
Last year, my fields were engineering- bioengineering and biology- bioinformatics. I wrote three questions for bioengineering and three for bioinformatics, and THAT'S IT.
I hope this helps :D</p>
<p>thanks, that helped but does that mean I just put down Biology/Myology? Because Part I only gives room for me to put that. It sounds illogical for me to put a second set down...</p>
<p>Also, about the questions, should they be addressed as questions that you answer in the paragraph or rather as declarative statements that involve a broad research topic at hand? (Ex: I was thinking of writing about testing whether stretching a muscle can induce hyperplasia in humans, would I put this as a question or as a statement?)</p>
<p>Are applications supposed to be postmarked by the 10th or actually there by the 10th? </p>
<p>Would overnight delivery give off a bad impression?</p>
<p>Most importantly, how long does it take to get a package from CA to MIT with regular delivery?</p>
<p>I know this is a frequently asked question every year. What I see on this year's Web site is "Must be received by February 9, 2007" for United States applicants. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Hey does anybody know if you're allowed to choose economics or statistics as a research field?</p>
<p>I don't think economics fits; perhaps statistics does, but only if there's some hard-core math involved. See the compendium from 2005 here:</p>
<p>to get an idea what the topics typically are and how many of each.</p>
<p>Yayverily, thanks for this wonderful link! What an incredibly talented bunch. Do you have a link for 2006? (I got a 404 error when I tried to sub in 2006 in the address)</p>
<p>Sorry, looks like they haven't posted the 2006 Compendium yet. But if you go here, you can find 2003-2005:</p>
<p>My son went to RSI in 2005. Great program.</p>
<p>Yayverily, Thanks again. May I PM you?</p>