Summer program Cornell Nanobiotech and NIH

<p>Crap It's that selective?</p>

<p>Here's my stats
Attending one of top ten public schools in California (if that helps)</p>

<p>Asian American (Korean)
Academics
SAT 1500 780 M 720 V
2C 790
Writing 770
Physics, American, Bio (planning to take)
AP Euro 5
AP Stats 5</p>

<p>Weighted GPA = 4.75 out of 4.0 ; top 5% of 2006 class</p>

<p>9-11 courses
9th
Adv. Orchestra A, A
Hnrs Bio A, A
English 1 A, A
Hnrs Alg 2 A, A
PE A, A
Spanish 2 A, A
Regional Studies, Health A, A
10th
Adv. Orchestra A, A
Hnrs Precalc A, A
AP European History A, A
AP Statistics A, A
Spanish 3 A, A
Hnrs English 2 A, A
Hnrs Physics A, A
11th
Adv. Orchestra A
AP BC Calc A
AP Physics A
AP English A
AP Bio A
AP American A</p>

<p>Researching Swarm Engineering with Caltech PhD- working on publishing theory paper on swarms
Wrestling Team JV/V
Varsity Track and Field-Pole Vault and Long Jump
co-Founder/Vice president of Young Musicians Club
Science Club-Secretary
Communications Chair Key Club
Volunteer at Malibu Water Chemistry
1st Degree Black Belt in Taw Kwon Do
attended NSLC Medicine and Healthcare
teacher/co-founder of Oriental Mission Church youth services (helping inner city children in math, english, science, history)
500+ hrs of COmmunity Service
Violin for 10 years
2nd Chair Young Nak Youth Orchestra and member of Young Nak Adult Orchestrra</p>

<p>Pomona-Wisconsin Mathematics Award
Wrestling 140lb Silver Medal 2003 & 2004 </p>

<p>Like I wrote a good letter explaining my interests in science, especially nanotech. I like Physics and Bio a lot, so I think they'll integrate well. I focused a lot on my past research experience. I'm helping a Caltech PhD with Swarm Engineering and researching about a new method of clustering robots. I also put in my transcipt and resume just in case. I</p>

<p>I'm also good with computers. I can program in Pascal and C. I also know some advanced mathematical logic that my mentor taught me. I just hope all that can get me in!</p>

<p>Whew...another advanture for me. I finished the letter of intent this morning at 3. Woke up really early to call the post office to see if they are still open (we are having a snow storm over here). Fortunately they are, so I just dropped off the letter in the box, 20 minutes before collection time. Whew...hopefully that will ensure it will be postmarked today.</p>

<p>When they say March 1st deadline, they DO mean POSTMARKED by March 1st, right?</p>

<p>why are yall posting stats?</p>

<p>i dunno, i thought they meant in their office by march 1st, cuz they said return it to this adress my march 1st. i overnighted mine on the 28th</p>

<p>I overnighted on Sunday, which is the 27th I think. They don't send notifications till April 25, 2005.</p>

<p>um, so they are not gonna ask for a trans or teacher rec at all?</p>

<p>they ask for a transcript later. i dont remember if I needed to send a rec tho.</p>

<p>but do they not ask for anything until april 25? or is that when the final descisions are given</p>

<p>they ask b4 they hand out their descisions</p>

<p>I emailed them
They said the same thing as JJKitty
BUt I included my resume and transcript anyway
:)</p>

<p>I just emailed Ms. Kong about the deadline.
She responded within 5 minutes saying it was indeed a postmark deadline. Now I'm glad I didn't spend extra on overnight shipping.
However, I highly suspect that my application will be the last to arrive, and since they are only admitting 6 or 7 people...LOL...maybe I'll leave a good impression...</p>

<p>trust me dualityim, yours was not the last to arrive. i also applied last minute...i didn't know about the program until a few days before but i really like nanobiotech. i wrote a research paper on Nanotech for a secme (engineering) comptn (one component was an essay) and i won districts, so it's going to nats. problem was that this all happened after i submitted the appl.</p>

<p>only 6 or 7? ouch. i wonder how many ppl apply a year?</p>

<p>JJKitty - what do you think was the reason they admitted you? because of your experience in the field? your essay? your classes?</p>

<p>I think it was my experience and classes because I didnt say anything special in my essay. At least I dont think I did. The experience and classes probably showed them that I was being genuine in my essay and showed how focused I am on science.</p>

<p>Dr. Batt told us that he picked the 6 of us because he looked at our applications and said wow. Im not really sure what that meant.</p>

<p>Okay, suppose I took alot of AP sci classes and i've taken autocad i/ii and engineering i/ii/iii/iv. they don't offer anything nano or biomed specifically related so that's the closest i can get to nanobiotech. do i stand a chance? </p>

<p>do you know how many people applied? this doesn't seem as well known as RSI or SHARP but considering i've never done research before and this is the EXACT field i want to go into, this is definitely of interest. =)</p>

<p>Did everyone who applied to the Cornell Nanobiotech one get an email requesting a school transcript?</p>

<p>i got one righ now</p>

<p>did every applicant get one? i hope not i wanna feel special :)</p>

<p>I didn't... ::sigh::</p>

<p>so did anyone else get an email about transcripts?</p>