<p>hey...all u applying for ssp..i thought you guys'll like to read this:</p>
<h2>(note: i applied to ssp as a soph last yr and got deferred admissions for this yr instead, so i would guess most of you wont be getting this email from mr. bowdon)</h2>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Just a confirmation that I have received your updated transcript, confirming your admission to SSP 2005. I'll mail your enrollment documents in about 3 weeks, with complete instructions. </p>
<p>If you expect to apply for financial aid and have not yet done so, please ask your parent to send the form ASAP.</p>
<p>You might be interested to know that applications are running 150% above last year. We expect 300 students to compete for the remaining 67 or so openings this summer.</p>
<p>Cheers,
Richard D. Bowdon SSP '74
Executive Director</p>
<h1>Summer Science Program</h1>
<p>heh..notice the increase in no. of applicants.......</p>
<p>OMFG. 22.66% acceptance rate. This is comparable to all the others!! And last year, only 115 applied!! Like..what..happened?</p>
<p>Damn, it's almost certain I'll be rejected or deferred. I'm so SAD I might not get into a summer program this year even though I'm applying to 8 of them. So I'll have to take Stanford EPGY <em>cries</em></p>
<p>smurf816, do you remember when you received information on your admissions status? March, April?</p>
<p>Classes: Physical Science <em>cries</em>, Pre-IB Chemistry, Pre-Calc, IB Calc. All A's except one A- in Honors English 10 and one in Pre-IB Adv. Alg/Trig.</p>
<p>smurf, do you think you were deferred because of your sophomore status? Because some of us here are sophomores, and we'd like to know some answers.</p>
<p>What are your credentials/stats? What have you indicated on your app?</p>
<p>i cant really remember when i was notified of my result...the website says by April 30th right?...so i guess it was sometime before that..what i DO remember was that i was notified thru email...so i get up one day..and checked my email before i went to school..and there it was...:)
the reason they deferred me was cuz of my soph status..and inexperience, plus the fact that i hadnt taken enough classes to prepare me for the material taught in SSP..ie. calculus..
i dun really kno how i got in tho..my stats were minimal(i go to a smalllll christian school in taiwan w/ like 5 ap classes total)..and the stuff i DID have were pretty bad too..something like...196 on the psat..no satI score...no sat2 scores either....i suppose i wrote a pretty decent essay....and mayb the no. of fewer applicants helped me as well...i just think i lucked out. period.
that summer, i went to sumac instead.
and this summer..if i get into rsi or mite2s..i'll go tp boston instead...so someone may have my ssp spot!</p>
<p>Ahhhh - so I might still have a chance. Plus - I think my science teacher may have labeled the SSP alumnus I know with difficulty in coping w/setbacks - he compared us two, saying that we were both very bright although we both "had our moments."</p>
<p>Hello, my name is Laura Webb. I've applied to ssp and hope to get in! I've been keeping up with this thread for a while and decided to show up- lurkers annoy me and I wouldn't want to be labled one. So. Hey yall!</p>
<p>kimjm-white27, what do you mean when you say you're an international? </p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that admissions notifications are April 30th.</p>
<p>"[...] we wait until late March to begin comparing applicants and making decisions. This process takes several weeks to complete. We send letters to all applicants as soon as we can."- ssp faq website</p>
<p>ha. I'm still waiting for the one teacher to send in that rec. He's sending it today; figured out fax broke. Decisions so soon? Mind sending me a copy of your letter on PM?</p>