@Xiadongdong69 Sweet! Maybe I’ll see you there!
I got in Astrophysics Colorado, I’m so excited! Does anyone know how generous the financial aid is?
@whales7 I think if you look at the email that was sent you can see the total cost it would be to attend.
According to the SSP website (https://issuu.com/ssp-summerscienceprogram/docs/ssp_case_for_support) it says that 14 people attended free in 2017. Also SSP has a lot of funding.
Oh, ok! Thanks, that helped a lot
@heather26 Yeah I looked, they gave everyone a $1,600 discount due to donations from alumni or something.
Admitted I can’t believe it I wrote my essays in 5 hours and submitted them at 11:59 I’m shook.
Were those a productive five hours, or did you suffer from terrible writer’s block like I did?
If you were like me (but better), I can’t really imagine :0
I just gave up making my essays sound nice and fed them stuff that sounds really generic to me, now that I’m looking back. Honestly, I should have looked for help since I know I’m not a natural at writing.
@sublimekorean which campus and program were u accepted to? Also did any other sophomores get accepted?
Sad 
alternate gang for astro second year in a row.
@heather26 I’m a junior right now and I got into NMT for Astro
Is ssp better than yspa even though ssp has around like 11% acceptance rate (140 something/1300 admitted) but yspa had around a 6% acceptance rate last year (32/531) and probably even lower this year? I know there is a greater history of ssp but im trying to decide between the two
Is ssp better than yspa even though ssp has around like 11% acceptance rate (140 something/1300 admitted) but yspa had around a 6% acceptance rate last year (32/531) and probably even lower this year? I know there is a greater history of ssp but im trying to decide between the two
ssp’17 here. i’ve heard from a few yspa acquaintances that ssp is slightly better in all aspects (research, academics, andsocial life). And I would 100% recommend SSP if you are accepted! Were you guys accepted to YSPA and/or SSP? I’m interested to see how the program evaluated the same applicants. good luck!
@Missmerrygoround I started my essays at 6 and I started panicking at like 11 because I still had the last 2 prompts to write, so those were pretty productive 5 hours besides messing around on youtube.
I had a lot of grammar mistakes in my essays because it was hard to revise them with little time, but I wrote about things that were true to me. I’m not talented at writing at all, but writing summer application essays sharpened my writing skills I think.
@bcnix1 Accepted to both ssp and yspa but why isnt yspa “better” if it is harder to get into?
Also its at yale which is a dream school for me (i know the location isnt everything but does it help?). The curriculum is essentially the same with yspa having a little more diverse stuff in it. Oof. Honestly, both programs look really nice
Is it a big difference (like ssp/yspa is much better than ssp/yspa) or is it small that its more about the superficial preference?
I used to feel reassured when people told me that AP classes and other college-related endeavors weren’t sticklers on grammar as much as they were on good content, but it seems like I can’t convey myself properly through writing or something??? Idk; clichés exist for a reason, and I guess my motivations didn’t sound as interesting as I wanted them to be. Too vague or something like that
I read similar stories in the other SSP threads, but they haven’t really hit me until now when I’ve already taken the L, so to speak.
Edit: For those applying in the future, I’d like to say that my essays were a little negative/depressing to read and boringly-worded. I never really went into my feelings about things so the impression is that I’m another book drone. An essay about textbooks and the USABO can be really entertaining and admission-worthy if you put a little bit of your soul into it.
The textbook approach worked once, at least; I’m fairly sure that my essay was just uninteresting.
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