<p>theyre sending out another batch of rejects as well as the acceptances tomorrow i think
from what i gathered from past years people</p>
<p>has no one been accepted today yet?</p>
<p>The pattern for email sending is not obvious. Doesn’t seem based on name or geography or application number.</p>
<p>It may be something internal (who the final reviewer of the application was) that we have no visibility to.</p>
<p>Since there are 900 applicants (according to the person I talked to there) I would think that it is somewhat of an automated system in which their email server may be restricted by their ISP to only send a certain number of emails per hour.</p>
<p>From here, it seems that they started at 10am EST (based on earliest rejection) and if they do 100/hour they will be done tonight if 100% manual, or before noon tomorrow if it requires manual intervention.</p>
<p>Since it must be automated, I would expect that acceptances, waitlists and rejections go out at the same time.</p>
<p>Also, some spam filters will filter out the email, but not notify you that they caught something for a couple of hours. </p>
<p>So if you haven’t received anything yet, the definitive answer is “who knows” ;)</p>
<p>Alternate. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Rejected :(</p>
<p>alternate too :/</p>
<p>what are our chances of getting moved into the ‘Participants’ list?</p>
<p>alternate over here…</p>
<p>Alternate. What are the chances I’ll get in?</p>
<p>no alternates got in last yr</p>
<p>Last year I got rejected but pretty much all the people who didn’t hear back in the first wave were either alternates of acceptees.
Also, if you got alternate, that really is a really great achievement. Every alternate I know now got into MIT or Harvard, so you’re in good company!</p>
<p>rejected lol. oh well</p>
<p>Hm I know of one person who got accepted (not me though 
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<p>Rejected </p>
<p>Timestamp: 7:12</p>
<p>Application #105</p>
<p>After snooping around this forum for a while, I finally decided to make an account to post my results…Alternate. </p>
<p>Does anyone know if being an alternate means anything to colleges, or if you can even say that you were an alternate for rsi.</p>
<p>I was accepted!!! 
The email came at 10:37 today, Mountain Time, for anyone trying to find patterns; I live in Colorado.</p>
<p>Accepted here too! :D</p>
<p>Does anyone know if RSI ever posts a “public list” of attendees? If so, if they put this list online somewhere, does anyone know when it comes out? Thanks!</p>
<p>Can people who have been accepted/alternate post what their choice of area of research and which state are they from?</p>
<p>Congrats to those accepted! Can any of you (who were accepted) please post some of your stats and/or the top achievements that you think got you in? (Are you all amazing writers?)</p>
<p>tripos, I like your excellent question!I hope people will respond to it as well. If you were accepted or an alternate, what is your own answer to that question? :-)</p>
<p>Alternate from midwest - applied for physics.
Again, does anyone know if being an alternate means anything to colleges? Just wondering if something good will come out of it.</p>