<p>What are the chances of making Intel semis when u don’t make Siemens semi?</p>
<p>^ You never know. It is kind of hard to judge formal papers in 3 weeks. However, it depends on 1) The applicability in today’s world 2) You did it all by yourself 3) Innovation 4)what contributions you made to existing or new areas of study</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me if my summer internship at local cancer institute for 450 hours good enough for the competiton? I have to sepnd nearly 100 hours on background search and we did not have time to finish PCR analysis for all gene conformations. But I have substantial quantitative data from other assay. I submitted my project under genetics. What you all think? I wrote my paper as if I am presenting for a scientific journal but less in depth. I just want to make it to top 300. Fingers crossed. Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>"Can anyone tell me if my summer internship at local cancer institute for 450 hours good enough for the competiton? "
^It really depends on the quality of your research, whether you come up with a result that substantially adds to the understanding of your field of knowledge or not.</p>
<p>I’m wondering how much effect one grammatical mistake could have on a project?</p>
<p>^ I seriously doubt a single (or even a few) grammatical mistake could affect judging that much. The focus is on the science, not the writing. Granted, numerous mistakes would probably annoy the judges, but one or two, ehh… 11 days (until all my hopes and dreams are crushed)!</p>
<p>That’s what I thought…lol</p>
<p>how do they announce who made it? On their website?</p>
<p>^dunno</p>
<p>I’m worried about the IACUC number. I used samples from another lab…but the samples were taken 15 years ago and the PI doesn’t remember the IACUC number from 15 years ago. I’m wondering if it was fine if I used that lab’s current IACUC number…lol</p>
<p>my prof said it was fine but im not sure eh</p>
<p>Sweetmiles, I have the same feeling too :(. From previous threads, I presume the announcement is posted on the website.</p>
<p>On my application, I said “No” to the question that asks whether my project has been submitted for publishing. However, I found out from my mentor that it actually HAS been submitted my project. What should I do? Do you think it has any effect on my project??? Help!!! I am panicking. :((</p>
<p>^No, calm down</p>
<p>Listen all the disqualified applications have been notified already so everyone can calm down. Question is will you make any type of finalist?</p>
<p>^ What? And how do you know this?</p>
<p>@ Crimsonuser Uh oh…PETA is going to get you. But really, we also used samples from a five years ago. However we had an IACUC number from before so…yea.</p>
<p>They don’t care. It comes down to the quality/significance of the research. It’ll be serious, however, if you fabricate the data.</p>
<p>mianahrs, is that true? How do you know?</p>
<p>:( I probably won’t make any finalist because I saw several glaring errors in my research report…after I submitted it. Awwshucks.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>My siemens paper advisor told me that all the applicatoins have been notified already if they have been disqualified and we should find out on Oct. 22nd for the next round.</p>
<p>^ Did they notify by phone (to the mentor or the applicant?), email, or mail?</p>