<p>i dunno know. i really really really * 10^100000 love MIT, but i'm waiting on my other colleges.</p>
<p>i don't actually remember getting any big package from cee. i think all correspondence after the initial letter of acceptance were by email, but i may be wrong. cee also has this habit of doing something different each year.</p>
<p>congrats to the Rickoids who got nice colleges, hurray for both MIT and Olin! (from whom I am still awaiting my Prospectus). </p>
<p>so .. this year 3 people from my school got into MIT (1 early, 2 regular) ad 2 that I know of where rejected (though 1 of the 3 is definitely going to Yale instead). This is exciting .. cause previously, in the last 13 years that its been around, my school has had only 2 people admitted to MIT total.. so a better precedent is nice</p>
<p>anyway .. waiting .. its DEADLY!!! DEADLY I SAY!!</p>
<p>so .. what are y'all's summer plans if (for some of us, when :-( ) you don't get RSI? (and yes I said y'all .. I'm from VA .. I do it occasionally) </p>
<p>personally, I am looking at VA governor's school research mentorship with NASA Langely and if I don't get that either probably an internship at either Raytheon, Some web design company, or maybe just working an ISEF project...</p>
<p>so yea.. thread activity .. lets see some</p>
<p>donaldguy, I did the thing VA governor's school research mentorship with NASA Langely...I loved it! pm me if you have any questions.....</p>
<p>congrats to rickoids who got accepted
hopefully i can connect by getting accepted to RSI in little less than two weeks</p>
<p>in terms of colleges, my heart lies with Stanford</p>
<p>alohasam89: Yeah you!!! Stanford is amazing. i'm going to visit it at presfrosh weekend. what really sucks is that stanford's prefrosh weekend coincides with caltech's exactly, so i have to split up the week. i think the one thing pulling me towards stanford is that it's in california. i hate the cold.</p>
<p>hmm... if i'm not accepted to RSI...
i also applied to SSP. if i don't get into that, i'll start my sumac application. if i don't get into that, i'll apply for this UCI research thing. if i don't get into that... i fail at life</p>
<p>colleges... granted its a year off .. but I'm so conflicted: </p>
<p>I love MIT.. probably even more than Stanford .. but I just love being in the valley .. CA makes me feel so much more at ease .. granted I've only been tthere once for 3 weeks .. but I just felt it... </p>
<p>and thats not even throwing Mudd and maybe Olin into the mix</p>
<p>i know, it would be so cool going to college somewhere warm and sunny... doing homework outside!! :)</p>
<p>uh, there's an internship at the Medical University of Ohio that I'm gonna apply for if I don't get in.. hopefully counselor won't get ****ed if I request my transcript and stuff 2 weeks before the application's due lol</p>
<p>oh.. all I said POed, not the f word or anything! oops :P</p>
<p>i love the UROP program at MIT. it makes it so easy to do research.
uggg..."they" say that the hard part about college is getting in, but i think choosing which college to go to is even harder. </p>
<p>10 more days or so until you guys find out about RSI!!!!
yeah!!!!!</p>
<p>vanilea, i disagree because getting in is out of your control but choosing is not</p>
<p>but yeah, can't wait for results!</p>
<p>elliott_j: true, but if you made the wrong choice of colleges, the fault is not yours. with college admissions, and even rsi admissions, it's a crap shot. you get some, you lose some. but if given the choice and you end up at a school you hate, and passed over the one you would have loved, you have no one to blame but yourself.
It's all hard to say.</p>
<p>The countdown is starting for you guys. Only eleven days left, right?</p>
<p>I'll probably pop back in then to wish you guys luck.</p>
<p>yea.. <em>hyperventilates</em> (probably not a good idea since I a) need to breath and b) have a chorus concert in 2 hours) </p>
<p>.. so .. yea... its harsh</p>
<p>choosing which college to go to is happy concern</p>
<p>one of the reason why I don't want to go to MIT is because my bro goes there. not that i don't like him. but it would be weird.</p>
<p>hey.... at least you have colleges to choose from! :)</p>
<p>when i read this thread my pulse goes from 60 bpm to 24982723 bpm</p>
<p>my systolic and diastolic are off the charts</p>
<p>Interesting how you guys talk favorably about Stanford. I live in the SF Bay Area, so people here either worship Stanford or consider it overrated. Not that I dislike the excellent Californian weather or think that Stanford is by any means "bad," but I'm definitely in the second camp. :D</p>
<p>Anyone applied to CCIS (ironically at Stanford) as backup for RSI? Their admissions decisions come out on 4/1, so I'm doubly nervous ... ><</p>
<p>Slashdot: can I hear some bad or overrated aspects of stanford? I live in WI and I have no connection what so ever. i'm the only person interested in stanford from my school. the stanford thread doesn't seem to bash it either. thanks</p>
<p>it depends on what you want in a college. i've heard that professors at stanford aren't as receptive to undergraduate researchers as professors at MIT. also, socially stanford is much more lad back. i don't know this for sure, but i've heard that there is a stigma against studying (ex: people study in secret because it's "not cool")</p>