<p>I REALLY, REALLY doubt it was the teacher rec that either made or broke someone. They mostly care about your passion and how you convey your personality through your essays.</p>
<p>Recommendations are huge. My math teacher is known for hating everyone. She insulted me by not giving me my letter until the 15th. I gave the rec form in January.</p>
<p>Now that I’m thinking of it, I don’t think my teachers wrote too awesome of recs for me. I only had an A- in Calc BC, and when I got 98% in Bio AP, my teacher was like “meh” for my rec.</p>
<p>Also, how many people got deferred? I want to know if my chances are good for moving from the “maybe” to “yes” stack.</p>
<p>Accepted, not attending.
Good luck to those waitlisted/deferred! :)</p>
<p>What are the people who were accepted and are not attending doing instead? (Jersey13? elevatorshoes?)</p>
<p>Join the other SSPers and alumni on Facebook. </p>
<p>[Summer</a> Science Program (SSP) 2010 | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook Public Group | Facebook”>Facebook Public Group | Facebook)</p>
<p>Accepted, not attending.
signed for HSHSP…</p>
<p>Wow, all these responses.</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten a letter/email yet. Bad news? :[
scratch that. checked my spam. rejected. >_<</p>
<p>Holy crap. I got in.</p>
<p>I have no idea how, but it happened. I mean, I wanted desperately to get in but I never dreamed it would happen. I mean literally, my dreams were composed of sever odd (unrelated events) and a single rejection letter from MIT (only a Junior, haven’t given them the opportunity to reject me just yet) which came in the form of a telegram… and, well, I’m rambling. But yeah this came as a surprise.</p>
<p>Have no intention of posting my stats because they’re far from good which does add to my confusion as to how I made the cut.</p>
<p>In addition both TASP (though I did attend TASS last year) and MITES flat-out rejected me so it seems the programs so different things in me or this is just foreshadowing college admissions.</p>
<p>Have the people who were deferred received any further news?</p>
<p>
Another summer program. I’m a more economics/IR oriented student so SSP wasn’t my top choice. </p>
<p>Good luck to those CCers waitlisted, hope you get my spot :)</p>
<p>Another summer program.</p>
<p>So far no update for deferrees</p>
<p>I’ve been deferred… keeping my finger’s crossed!</p>
<p>But worse comes to worse, I have back-up plans. lol</p>
<p>Anyone got financial aid package yet? So nervous about it.</p>
<p>^i haven’t got mine back yet. when did you send yours in? i just sent mine in on tuesday so hopefully i hear back within the next week. i want to know asap if i can go or not!</p>
<p>I sent mine way before March 15. I hope they are going to send FA package in order, not at the same time.</p>
<p>Yay, got accpeted to NM campus, here are my stats:
ACT-30 (31 superscored), UW GPA-3.86, will finish 9 AP’s by the end of this year and taking multivarible calc. Doing physics research with a past Stanford physics lecturer.
Got 2nd and 3rd in nationals in math(in Israel) in 7th and 8th grade,respectively.</p>
<p>Had 2 great recs. In essays talked about music playing, science interest, and culture shock when I came to america. </p>
<p>Cant wait to meet everyone!</p>
<p>Does being “deferred” mean I’m just being waitlisted?</p>
<p>Yes, Quantum Girl</p>