SIMR (Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program) 2016 THREAD

Nice

Only 1100 people applied this year, considerably fewer than previous years. Acceptance should have been roughly 5.5%

Iā€™m from the Bay Area who else is from the bay

How do u know 1100 people applied

Got the call from SIMR as well!! The whole thing just feels so unreal. Hope to see you there futuredoc99! :slight_smile:

Ya! See you there are u a junior

@sat7230

didnā€™t get an email, and they wonā€™t respond to emails later. what do I do?

@futuredoc99 yep! junior in bay area haha

Got rejected. I expected it but it still stings, you know? Now Iā€™ll probably do the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion, if I get into that. Question for you guys, which plan should I take this summer?

  1. Girls Who Code + summer Chemistry classes at night so I can take AP Bio next year. Iā€™ve been taking AP physics classes for the past 2 years and I feel that dropping to regular olā€™ chemistry just looks bad.
  2. Just Girls Who Code, because Iā€™m taking AP Calc BC and 3 more APs next year, and putting AP Bio on top of that will be nuts

Is it true if u get into SIMR you have a high chance to get into Stanford. How much does participating in SIMR help college admissions

@futuredoc99 helps, but its not like guarantee or like huge boost, my school had 4 attendees, and only one of them got into stanford

@futuredoc99 I think it certainly does help. But, essentially, itā€™s just like participating at Harvard for research. Really prestigious! Youā€™re very lucky to have gotten in! I just want to see anyone not from the Bay Area who got in.

Ok thanks guys @rtang28 did the attendees at your school go to prestigious colleges?

@futuredoc99 idk yet not that i know of

was anyone else waitlisted? How likely is it that some on the waitlist will be admitted (Iā€™m assuming not very :confused: )

Actually how prestigious is this internshipā€¦ I got in but I am not sure if I could do it. Is this internship a make or break activity for a UC college acceptanceā€¦

@futuredoc99 I hate to castigate you, but you shouldnā€™t be happy you got in just because of prestige. Itā€™s about getting an opportunity to research some really cool stuff at the best place possible to research.

@yayarea459w UC college acceptance is not as selective to require anything like SIMR, nor is the program as selective as years past, as itā€™s much much more of a local opportunity than a national one.

Hi @joeweller I am very grateful that I was selected not only for the prestige but because I have an overwhelming strong passion for medicine and scientific research. I have been planning to conduct research in a specific field for some time now, and I extremely excited that I can research a topic that I care so much about at Stanford. So please understand and donā€™t castigate me :slight_smile:

wooooo I got in somehow! Do any of you know how we can view which institute we got into? Hoping for bioinformatics :slight_smile:
Also does anyone know if someone has made a Facebook group for SIMR 2016? I know theyā€™ve created some in previous years to get to know each other before they met in person in the summer!