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I did not send an SAT score, and I was accepted.</p>
<p>@luoscioly, thanks for the quick response. Could you pls. post your stats ? What did you apply for ? What are your other credentials?</p>
<p>I’d prefer not to give out a laundry list of my stats/credentials. However, I will say that I applied with no prior research experience, no international olympiads, and only three AP classes (one science). Frankly, I am shocked that I got accepted, given that they reject people with research/ISEF/USAMO/college accolades.</p>
<p>@Luoscioly, thanks for your response. You must have something that stood out in your application like your essays or other non-stereotype-ecs or recommendations. best wishes.</p>
<p>Are you of a minority LuoSciOly? And also congrats! :)</p>
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By “minority” do you mean my racial background? If so, it doesn’t matter, because there is no place on the RSI application to indicate your race.</p>
<p>@atomicbaseball, do you remember around what time you were notified that you were moved from the Alternates to Participants list?</p>
<p>Hey everyone, I was accepted a few days ago and I just thought I would stop by and let you all know (if anyone has been counting for the 80 or so people). Where is everyone else from? Anyone else from Kentucky?</p>
<p>Did anyone who selected Computer Science as the top subject in the RSI application get in?</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who got accepted. </p>
<p>Might there be a bias towards chemistry and biology applicants? If it helps, I was applying for Computer Science, second choice being Electrical Engineering. </p>
<p>I got rejected – do you guys think it would have helped a lot to have published a paper or gotten awards? My academics are solid: GPA 4.1 (out of 4.3), 2330 on the SATs, 223 on PSATs, taking AP Statistics, AP Physics, AP Chem, and already took Calc BC. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>congrat Cardinal11!</p>
<p>did they give a deadline for responding?
Just curious for when the alternates might start being decided (they said mid may I think, which seems kind of late)</p>
<p>@pegusis/Arukwoof: I was indeed notified mid-May. Apparently I was selected at the last possible minute - if whoever dropped out had notified them any later they wouldn’t have filled the space. I’d imagine that they try to fill the spaces more-or-less as soon as someone turns them down, but I don’t really know. And I’m sure there’s a response deadline, but I’m not sure what it is. Probably early May.</p>
<p>We’re supposed to email our acceptance by March 15th actually…</p>
<p>There are more biology projects than anything else. I also heavily suspect that there are more people listing biology as one of their fields of interest than anything else.</p>
<p>I doubt you have a significant advantage in acceptance rate due to a certain field selection.</p>
<p>so if the acceptances are due by mid march and the notifications are done by mid may, there are two possibilities:</p>
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<li> They meet again to determine who gets any of the available slots (if there are any).</li>
<li> They already have a ranking that they go through and give people time to respond (less likely).</li>
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<p>Weird that there is that 2 month lag. Any other ideas?</p>
<p>@Arukwoof</p>
<p>Yes, I was told March 15th as well.</p>
<p>My fields are #1 - Mechanical Engineering and #2 - Computer Science</p>
<p>I don’t know if that gave me an advantage (I don’t have any crazy accomplishments or anything) but I do feel as though my essays strongly showed my interest in the fields I selected.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how they choose from the pool of alternates (reevaluation, geographic location, …)? And how many alternates were chosen this year?</p>
<p>They do apparently completely reevaluate those in the alternate pool, I believe.</p>
<p>And I’m going to assume mid-May is more the latest that alternates will hear, not exactly when alternates will hear, so even though the reply-back date is March 15th people may yet drop out after that and if they drop out before mid-May then they’ll select an alternate to replace them.</p>
<p>Again, just a guess, but it would seem reasonable.</p>
<p>Happy pi day, everyone! </p>
<p>In one year, it’ll be (some of) us anxiously awaiting 6:28 PM for MIT decisions :0 So close, yet so far away…</p>
<p>Hi again everyone! Thought I’d let you know all us alumni are starting to hear about staff positions. I’ll be your tech assistant! Can’t wait to meet you all! :D</p>