Rsi 2012

<p>PSAT: 237 (77 M, 80 CR, 80 W)
SAT: 2370 (800 M, 800 CR, 770 W)
SAT II: 800 on Math IIC, Bio, Physics; 780 on Chem, Korean</p>

<p>APs: All 5’s (Calc AB, Calc BC, Physics B, Physics C, Euro, Chem, Bio, Compsci A, Music Theory)</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted 4.00/4.00
Weighted 4.58</p>

<p>Academic:
Took Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra as sophomore
Took Number Theory, Abstract Algebra in junior year 1st sem.</p>

<p>Research:
Paid internship at local college in applied math (think on the level of UC’s); published paper.</p>

<p>EC’s:
USAMO (7th, 8th, 9th, 10th grades)
USACO Silver
Consistent results in smaller competitions (HMOT, Mandelbrot, ARML)
Science Bowl (Captain)
Math Club (President)
Compsci Club (Board Member)
Singing (sang Nat’l Anthem at Major League Baseball games, non-profit CD)</p>

<p>Rec’s:
Honors Chem teacher who also coaches Science Bowl - She loves me.
Math department head at local college where I did my research.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if it’s okay if one of your recommendations is mailed separately? I just saw that they had to be included with your mailed application, but one of the people I asked lives far away so I couldn’t get one from him in an envelope
I really hope they do</p>

<p>Sorry, but how the heck are you guys printing the online form? The formatting is horrible.</p>

<p>@burning flame, I can take a look at your essays, and give you some feedback on them.</p>

<p>@jollykid, could you look over my essays too? And if your willing to do it, how do I send them to you? Thanks a lot either way.</p>

<p>@burningflame, I’ll look over your essays</p>

<p>thanks! also, to anyone who selected chemistry as one of your research fields, what subtopic are you doing?</p>

<p>I just submited my online application and noticed than mine was submission number 1513. I figure that since 50 people are accepted and the percent accepted is usualy about five, the usual number of applicants is about 1000. If 1513 people have already submited their applications, it may be even more difficult than usual to get in this year. After you submit your aplication, please post you application number so that we can keep track of how many people have applied this year. You can find your application number by going back to the main application page (after you have submited the application) and clicking view previus submissions, which is in barely visible font in a blue rectangle at the top of the page. Then click the option “veiw” and your application number will appear near the top of the page.</p>

<p>are sophomores eligible?</p>

<p>@dasdui; the wording that CEE uses is anyone that has “one year remaining before high school graduation” is eligible to apply.</p>

<p>@RSIuser; i’ve heard that 2500 people usually apply, so if we are only at 1513 now, thats pretty good. but im sure there will be several hundred applications coming in this week… i mean, who doesnt procrastinate?</p>

<p>I got application 36, when I submitted at like 4 or so…derp</p>

<p>Yeah I don’t think the submission numbers are in order. When I submitted mine several days ago, I was submission #50.</p>

<p>Do you guys know if RSI likes to accept applicants with good research awards? (i.e. SIEMENS, Intel…) What about patents?</p>

<p>So maybe the application number is assigned when you start the application (i.e. when you save your first draft). Makes sense because I just submitted and I got ~200.</p>

<p>That would be it. I had to start a new acount just before I submited my application because I couldn’t deselect my choices on the first one. But with that in consideration, there should be more submissions than actual applications.</p>

<p>smart thinking, thumbtack… mine was #101, submitted 5 minutes ago.
its also exciting to think that that could mean there are fewer than the 1513 that RSIuser got. Personally, I think that it will be easier to get into this year, simply because it looks like they changed the requirement from needing to be 16 to needing to be a junior, which will probably eliminate a number of the students that otherwise would have applied</p>

<p>Just submitted, 1531. I really hope that this is random and there aren’t actually this many… if so there’s no way I get in</p>

<p>EDIT: Also, has anyone been able to print out the main form? When I went back and "view"ed my previous submission, it looked really weird and out of order, and I’m not sure how to print it so it is understandable. I’m going to try with a different browser, I suppose.</p>

<p>EDIT 2: Tried it in Firefox (I’d been using Chrome). Still looks terrible, and the fields are completely out of order. I’m not sure what to do. What have you guys been doing to print it out?</p>

<p>Same problem as litotes. Probably should have printed it out before I submitted (when everything still looked like they were in the correct formatting) but now I guess I’ll just print it out and send it in. They’ll have the online copy anyway…</p>

<p>Has anyone else gotten it to format correctly after submitting? Doesn’t work on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Opera so its probably not just a rendering problem with the browser.</p>

<p>Yeah chesset I emailed CEE and they said it doesn’t matter, just print it out. I assume they do their reading of the app form online anyway.</p>

<p>Also, we don’t have to submit our essays online do we?</p>

<p>I don’t see how we could submit them online so I assume not.</p>