<p>@pegusis: I know I know have a reputation as a ■■■■■, but I’m serious on this one. 50 people get in. So even alternates are a pretty select group from a select group of applicants. RSI alternate is absolutely worth putting on a college app! </p>
<p>Sorry that no one here got in! I’m sure everyone will find something great this summer.</p>
<p>Accepted! =D. From Georgia for Math/physics</p>
<p>alternate: applied math / cs : (bioinformatics / computational biology)</p>
<p>you’d have to be f-in desperate to put ‘RSI alternate’ on a college app. get real.</p>
<p>Accepted!!! 
from Indiana Chemistry/Biology</p>
<p>Redizen: How many alternates do they pick? If it’s similar at all to the number of acceptances, it’s still rather impressive.</p>
<p>Rejected. It must have been the letter of recomendation that my math teacher probably spent near ten minutes on. I can’t even describe how annoyed it makes me to think that I spen weeks perfecting my essay and my teacher, who I trusted, was not even willing to put in the effort to write an even passable recomendation. I thought that I should at least have been made an alternate anyway. Someone who was accepted should post their stats.</p>
<p>Accepted! anyone else from Michigan?</p>
<p>RSIuser: Uh maybe the recommendation was part of it, maybe it wasn’t. But I don’t think any one can be smug enough to think that they “should’ve” been accepted or made an alternate. There are many excellent applicants out there and only 50 are chosen.</p>
<p>@Sophiax27, out of all of the applicants there were 50 who “should’ve” been accepted and, as I think the wait list has abount 30 people on it, there are 30 who “should’ve” been waitlisted. I think I am one of those people, wheather RSI thinks so or not. Its as simple as that.</p>
<p>OMY GODD I DON’T KNOW HOW THIS IS EVEN POSSIBLE BUT I WAS ACCEPTED!!! 
I’m from Texas for Molecular and Cell Biology/ Chemistry</p>
<p>rejected. I don’t know why, besides the fact that I’m a sophomore. I spent the past two summers working in the field in Guyana and produced papers that were both published in smithsonian journals. great grades. high PSAT. tons of volunteer work for environmental groups. science fair, first at states, internationals… ugh. I thought my essays were compelling and well written. ill apply next year though. sorry to those who didn’t get in and congratulations to those that did!</p>
<p>@theseabean
I’m 95% sure only students who are currently juniors can be accepted. so that’s probably why you got rejected (not saying 100% you wouldve gotten in if you were a junior, just that sophomore status guarantees rejection).</p>
<p>also @RSIuser it sounds rather conceited when you act like you were cheated because you didn’t get in. just accept that there were people better than you and move on. stop being so bitter</p>
<p>@zorn96 </p>
<p>Of course! If i were the admissions committee i would take a junior over me. It just sucks inevitably when you don’t get in to something you worked exceedingly hard to get into. Its ok, Ill go back to guyana, get some work done in a lab with mitochondrial DNA and apply again next year! I only applied because I read about a person who was accepted as a freshman a few years ago. again, congratulations to people who got in! I wouldve died of happiness.</p>
<p>RSIuser : post your stats</p>
<p>RSIuser’s stats are in post #397. IMO its the SAT scores that kept you out, @RSIuser. they dont meet the minimum…</p>
<p>btw im an alternate. does anyone actually know how many alternates there are?</p>
<p>@alternate12 people were saying that there are around 30? im not sure.</p>
<p>my guess is that there are 2 alternates per field (math, bio, physics, etc), maybe 3.</p>
<p>someone said there were 20 last year and someone else said no one got in.</p>
<p>The only people who would apply, get in and not go are ones who are expecting some “better” opportunity like MOP.</p>
<p>Congrats on those accepted!</p>
<p>Can someone tell the alternates what the deadline is for accepting?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>
Actually, I was an alternate originally last year. So that’s not quite true. I may have been the only one who got in though, I’m not sure.</p>
<p>More info for alternates: Last year there were around 30, but apparently previous years there were far fewer. No idea why there were so many last year, or how many there will be this year. It’s rather unlikely, unfortunately, that you’ll actually get in - it does happen (obviously, I can attest to that) but it’s fairly rare that someone turns down an RSI acceptance. Maybe one or two people per year, sometimes not even that. But it’s still pretty prestigious and while I don’t know that it would mean anything on a college app it means you are good enough to get into RSI, just something made someone else slightly more attractive to the people at CEE.</p>
<p>Anyways… congrats to everyone who got in! And good luck (again) if you haven’t heard yet. Sorry to those who were rejected, but I’m sure you can find something else fun to do this summer.</p>