<p>yeah 6% was last year and i bet there’s more applicants this year… the number seems to be multiplying.</p>
<p>Also, I wonder if they take SAT scores highly in the process? Because mine wasn’t that great… I wonder what they look at the most?</p>
<p>I dont have SAT scores and only PSAT scores from sophomore year (I was sick for it this year). That said, I hope they don’t weigh those too heavily.</p>
<p>Did anyone else apply from out of state?</p>
<p>did they email you confirming they got your application?</p>
<p>It sounds like the application is online this year, so it is likely different from my experiences last year with the mostly paper application, but I didn’t receive any kind of confirmation e-mail. The first SIMR-related contact I received was the acceptance to the program.</p>
<p>@meganfoxftw: I didn’t get an email confirmation saying that they got my application.</p>
<p>I didn’t get that email either!</p>
<p>@Ender94 </p>
<p>Yes, I also applied from out of state. </p>
<p>I hope that the selection committee takes into account all application materials before eliminating students. While my SAT scores may not be impressive, I believe the rest of my credentials speak for themselves. Two questions: </p>
<p>1.) How important is diversity (as they put it, “broadly defined”)? </p>
<p>I have unique experience (e.g., 2010 Cleveland Clinic intern) and distinct perspectives, yet stereotypically, I am not exactly diverse. </p>
<p>2.) Did anyone else include a cover letter and resume in their application packet? I assumed it was fairly standard to do so at a professional level. I can’t help but wonder if they actually read them.</p>
<p>@christy12 and eobaggs</p>
<p>I am nearly certain there was no confirmation email</p>
<p>I didn’t include a cover letter or resume; I felt like the club/organizations/awards part basically covered most of it.</p>
<p>@smithevan12</p>
<p>I too submitted a cover letter/Resume. Most applications, I can integrate both into the essays, but the essays for SIMR were short so I just tossed them in.</p>
<p>What’s a cover letter?</p>
<p>And yeah, SIMR doesn’t send receipt of application e-mails. You just get the decisions e-mail on April 8th.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if accepted students are emailed prior to April 8th? Other threads on CC from other years seem to imply that students received acceptance emails before the given date and then the list of students was officially released on that date. Any clarification?</p>
<p>@7yearman </p>
<p>I absolutely agree. The essays were far to short to include resume-like materials. </p>
<p>What was everyone’s take on the diversity essay?</p>
<p>@smithevan12
I don’t think applications are on a rolling basis. It says pretty clearly on the application that decisions come out April 8th.
For my diversity essay, I did my public school, women, and how my upbringing has shaped me into the person I am today. The first two were rather weak, but I couldn’t come up with some “life-changing” experience.</p>
<p>@smithevan12: Yeah, from previous year for when the list came out online on like the 2nd of April or so, I saw that a lot of CCers said they got an e-mail around March 30th. I guess we’ll know in a few weeks as soon as one of us starts posting “I GOT IN!” Aahha</p>
<p>My essays were bleh. :/</p>
<p>Its so nerve-wracking when you open that email about your decision.</p>
<p>in my essays, i talked about my experience growing up in hawaii and my grandma’s death because she was my childhood mentor. my first one was decent, i talked a lot about how my independence and motivation will allow me to excel in a program like simr.</p>
<p>For my diversity essay, I wrote about my room and how it’s literally a shrine dedicated to music and math. I basically juxtaposed my scientific side (which is rather physics and math orientated, in contrary to the strong biology backgrounds most SIMR applicants have) and my artistic side (violin performance). I hope it worked. My first essay was rather plain, sounding just like any generic college form essay. I did not like the length restrictions. I had to cut my essays down from 4.5 pages double spaced…</p>
<p>I applied too…I feel like I didn’t put as much time and thought into my essays as all of you did. Is everyone from California? Im from Michigan and I don’t know what I’ll be doing about housing if I get in. How important are the essays? I have pretty good credentials otherwise… 4.0 unweighted for entire high school career, straight A’s in every class, PSAT scores of 67, 71 and 73, every science course at my small school, first generation to college, single mom, no contact with my dad, full academic achievement scholarship last year to Oxford for a summer program in medical science…what are my chances of still getting in?</p>
<p>I applied from NY</p>