<p>RSI, Intel, Siemens, TASP, ISEF ?</p>
<p>what are all of these honor/awards/programs?
i see them all over the forums.
does anyone have any personal experience with them?
and how prestigious are they?</p>
<p>RSI is an ultra-selective summer program that takes about 80 students each year. They spend six weeks at MIT (or some other college, but for the last few years, it's been MIT) doing research work with a mentor and other science/math related stuff. TASP is like the humanities version of RSI, also ultra-selective. </p>
<p>Intel, Siemens, and ISEF are science fairs/competitions. Intel and Siemens are more prestigious than ISEF. Seimens requires you to submit a paper of your research p[roject to be judged. Intel requires the paper and a bunch of essays and background academic/extra curricular information so they can judge you on a more holistic scale.</p>
<p>If you want to learn more, just look them up on wikipedia :)</p>
<p>wow thanks.
that really helped. [:</p>
<p>i'm interested in maybe doing some research for science.
and i've seen what other people have done and wow.
how on earth do people come up with these ideas?
and how do they go about doing the research?</p>
<p>ppl always say STS / Siemens are more prestigious than ISEF, but realize that at places like MIT 95%+ of ppl there are ppl who have never won a intel/sts/isef/RSI, so frankly it doesnt matter being ISEF or Siemens, even though of course its slightly better to be STS/Siemens</p>
<p>winning ISEF though already sets you into a top 3% position w/ other applicants, and thus likely to get admitted</p>
<p>wow thanks.
that makes me feel a lot better [:
i was reading another forum about ECs,
and the stuff they have listed there ..
are just wowww.</p>
<p>i also know that there are Siemens programs
and stuff, are those prestigious?</p>
<p>Honestly, I think that no matter how prestigious, any summer program you can go to is good, because it says to colleges that you didn't just marinade all summer. </p>
<p>Of course, stay away from the programs that require you to buy your way in. Both of the ones that I've been to, the students had to either have a high GPA or be nominated by a teacher or past attendee of the program.</p>
<p>^ which ones did you go to?</p>
<p>Summer of '06 I attended the National Young Leaders' Conference in Washington, DC.</p>
<p>This year I attended a LeadAmerica CSI Conference in San Diego, which also gives you college credit. :)</p>
<p>NYLC and LeadAmerica are not prestigious summer programs.</p>
<p>That wasn't my point.</p>
<p>My point was that obviously doing ANYTHING is better than just wasting away all summer.</p>
<p>And I'd rather do something I'm genuinely interested in than do it "because it's prestigious".</p>
<p>ok well the OP was asking about Siemens/Intel/RSI so I was just saying that LeadAmerica is not the same type of program as RSI or TASP or something.</p>
<p>Oh I know :) XD I'm not going to fill out my college apps and be like "Look what a prestigious program I attended!" Because I know it's not, because there were 400 kids at my NYLC conference alone and I believe there were like 10 conferences during the summer. I was just offering my point of view...it's what I do.</p>
<p>Like I said, I don't think it matters WHERE you spend your summer (ie at WHICH program), but rather HOW (at A program). I mean obviously they'll favor prestigious ones, but if it's between my NYLC and LeadAmerica and some kid who just hung out with friends all summer, I have a feeling they're going to favor me.</p>
<p>well, does anyone know specifically if the siemens programs are prestigious?
and does anyone have any personal experience with the competitions?</p>
<p>Yes, I was an Intel finalist. I'm pretty sure Intel/Siemens are extremely prestigious. ISEF less so.</p>
<p>wow, congrats [:
how did you get the idea for your project originally?
was it just a random question or more of a continuation of research
done before?</p>
<p>what is the difference in ISEF and "intel" competition? Doenst ISEF stand for INTEL science and engineering fair? are they the same thing?</p>
<p>Intel looks more at students as how well they would be as a scientist, so they look at things other than research, like test scores and essays and stuff. But ISEF just looks at a project. And I think you have to be a senior to do Intel. And I might be wrong about something.</p>