<p>Do any of you who is a RSI scholar, but Yale deferred you from the early decision?</p>
<p>wow that sentence didn't make sense :-D</p>
<p>i've seen this thread, started by you, on the hy and p boards...does it matter if you're an RSI scholar? it shouldn't guarantee you anything.</p>
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does it matter if you're an RSI scholar? it shouldn't guarantee you anything.
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<p>Well, put it this way, it's extraordinarily prestigious, and it is a near guarantee for admission to one of HYPSM (at least from the patterns I have observed) if you are an otherwise presentable candidate.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>i saw this on the MIT thread as well. lol.</p>
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<p>jprencipe, I respectfully disagree. I understand that RSI is prestigious, but, on principle, nothing can be a "near guarantee" to hypsm</p>
<p>RSI is a near guarantee to MIT. So is being the top math scorers in an East Asian country (maybe others, I just know those), winning the ARML, winning the Siemens Westinghouse Competition, being a URM with a SAT score over 1550, and making the USA All Academic team.</p>
<p>someone, </p>
<p>statistics from CEE beg to differ with your point. HYPSM wants Rickoids to attend their schools. CEE's President told us at one of our meetings that Harvard published an annual report of their incoming class and in there, they list the number of rickoids attending Harvard.</p>
<p>hm, ok, point equally-respectfully retracted :D</p>
<p>Is this the same for students who have attended TASP?</p>
<p>someone - I should have mentioned that at the very least, I am aware that RSI scholars will be admitted to MIT unless something is seriously wrong.</p>
<p>I would agree that on principle, nothing SHOULD be a guarantee to HYPSM. But I think you would find the level of acheivement for students who get into RSI, combined with what they actually DO at the program (which is usually extremely complicated stuff), indicates that they will almost surely be admitted to at least one of HYPSM. </p>
<p>They just have that tremendous hook that can overcome many things that would disqualify applicants just because of the competition. Their passion for research science is so strong that it would most probably overcome deficiencies in other areas (if they did happen to exist). RSI scholars are usually extremely strong candidates all around; but the hook distinguishes them in any event.</p>
<p>It is like being a recruited athlete in the sport of research science, so to speak. And well, unlike cheerleading, that's one sport that MIT is probably ranked first in the country at :-p.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>Sorry - what is an RSI Scholar?</p>
<p>It's a person who attended Research Science Institute at MIT or Cal Tech. Fully sponsored, very competitive, and usually the Siemens Westinghouse or Intel Talent Search winners are filled with RSI members.</p>
<p>It's not that RSI or TASP makes up for other deficiencies. It's that the students who end up getting into these camps are good students. They have a good shot getting into good schools without going to the camps. But the camps do help beyond that, though, because they show that the good students are even better because they have motivation and want to be productive in their summer.</p>
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It's not that RSI or TASP makes up for other deficiencies. It's that the students who end up getting into these camps are good students. They have a good shot getting into good schools without going to the camps. But the camps do help beyond that, though, because they show that the good students are even better because they have motivation and want to be productive in their summer.
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<p>What I was trying to say was that RSI first and foremost gave applicants a major edge over the competition. </p>
<p>The secondary point was that it could make up for certain deficiencies, if they existed. Because RSI is such a big hook, if someone who participated in RSI was not as well rounded as the another candidate, that lesser degree of well-roundedness would probably NOT have an impact on the RSI scholar. The RSI scholar has achieved at such a level in their particular area of study that other factors are not necessarily scrutinized AS heavily as they would be for an unhooked applicant. This is just the same as being a recruited athlete.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>wow puddinggirl, are u from RSI too or something? Saw your thread on the MIT board too=) Anyway, based on my experience from RSI '03, most Rickoids applied EA to Harvard/MIT instead, and a huge majority got into at least one of them, if not both. </p>
<p>I applied regular to Yale last year, and just got a likely acceptance letter. But somehow in my opinion, RSI is a bigger hook for MIT because it is based there. Oh well=)</p>
<p>I don't think Yale (or the others) particularly wants well-rounded students. . . just talented students.</p>
<p>Can anybody exaplin what is the term "Rickoid"?</p>
<p>no school wants well-rounded students. They want students who excell to make a well-rounded population of students. <em>sigh</em> I wish i was smart enough for rsi or tasp</p>
<p>A Rickoid is an RSI participant, former or current. It comes from the name "Rickover", who was the founder of the RSI program=)</p>
<p>when you look at where TASP alumni have gone most of them dont go to HYPS, rather go to smaller schools. i know 2 years ago a lot went to northwestern and washington university. =D. it was probably their first choice or something cuz i think a TASP alumni is pretty qualified for HYPS, especially since its a program focused towards minorities</p>