<p>Do any one you early action applications who are RSI scholars is deferred by Harvard for early action?</p>
<p>If so, why...........
RSI is so pretigious, right?</p>
<p>.............huh? :confused:</p>
<p>yes there were a few who were deferred. the acceptance rate for EA Harvard for Rickoids has been consistently 70% or higher.</p>
<p>RSI also pretty much guarantees admission to MIT. The acceptance rate is virtually 100 percent.</p>
<p>Does MIT do early action or decision?</p>
<p>open early action</p>
<p>wat is RSI?</p>
<p><a href="http://cee.org/rsi/research.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://cee.org/rsi/research.shtml</a></p>
<p>puddinggirl, what is this obsession about RSI and how it can get you into college? You posted in the MIT and Yale site asking the same question. Why does it matter? </p>
<p>RSI DOESN'T get you into college. The rickoids who get into RSI has the profile that can get them into virtually any colleges they want. RSI is icing on the cake.</p>
<p>Yes, Rickoids do get deferred. As you can clearly see, even the Harvard adcoms are not infallible.</p>
<p>puddinggirl,</p>
<p>if you got into RSI, thats great.. if you didnt and think getting into rsi is your ticket in, then you are wrong from the start. and if you want to go to hypm that badly.. then you should be able to do reserach and figure out if the schools are EA or ED. that takes less time then you asking.</p>
<p>Princetonwannabe, I agree completely. I tried to post much the same comment on puddinggirl's equivalent thread on the yale board</p>
<p>a 70% chance for harvard is absolutely amazing.</p>
<p>why is rsi so special? why cant you just do research on your own at a good public/private univ near you?</p>
<p>becuz the top colleges know the caliber of students who attend RSI, and the high level of research that goes on there. Of course it's amazing even if you do research at a good public/private university, but when a college sees and applicant from RSI, it's like having an official guarantee that the applicant is worthy of attending that school.</p>
<p>I dont' know I read a couple RSI papers and they didn't impress me too much.</p>
<p>there's more to rickoids than their research. Rickoids are truly passionate and amazing, which are of course characteristics that ANY college would want in its college. For example, Joline made it to INTEL STS. She has her own patent; she fences; she plays the violin; she volunteers, etc. They're so well rounded. Another example is Shubha. She knits for patients who have cancers; she started a skin cancer awareness program at school, and the list of humanitarian accomplishments go on and on. </p>
<p>Not to be rude but did you understand what the papers were talking about? One of the rickoid who's a theoretical astrophysicist explain to me her paper a week ago and i was like...man that's a mind-boggling idea. If you don't have substantial background to a branch, then of course you can't fully appreciate the beauty and depth of the content.</p>
<p>thats true, i agree staticsoliloquy. But I'm just saying why cant we have the same thing without going to rsi. How could colleges differenitiate. What I am basically getting at is why are people concered abt rsi applicants specifically being rejected, etc. (puddinggirl's question).</p>
<p>i meant *deferred, not rejected</p>
<p>yeah.......... it happens.</p>