<p>I got 1,900. It’s not too bad.</p>
<p>Did anyone from the waiting list (not deferred list) get accepted yet?</p>
<p>I think you won’t hear from him after Tuesday, since the people admitted need to confirm by Tuesday.</p>
<p>Everyone admitted does get an automatic $2250 scholarship towards the program fee (of $6100) which is pretty cool on its own but is not quite enough for some families.</p>
<p>I just received word back about my financial aid today. It was very generous so I’ll be able to attend and have confirmed my attendance.</p>
<p>I’m a bit overwhelmed I never thought I’d get in, in the first place, and then I was very worried that I wouldn’t be able to attend anyway because of the program fee but now that that weight has been lifted, theres nothing stopping me from celebrating. Except for some really gloomy weather here but I can’t be too picky :p.</p>
<p>eh, I thought the total program fee was just 3850, not 6100-2250=3850</p>
<p>how big do you think the waitlist is? ><</p>
<p>i don’t want to give myself false hope but…oh man i really wanna go lol</p>
<p>@Pi Face: I was thinking the same thing.</p>
<p>One of my friends got accepted off the waitlist and is attending.</p>
<p>^oh man he/she is lucky</p>
<p>i want to go sooo badddly</p>
<p>I was wondering similarly. MIT is my dream school but never in my wildest dreams did I picture myself there. Actually in several wild dreams I pictured my self being rejected in various forms and circumstances, but I’ll not go into that.</p>
<p>I doubt there are any direct implications of SSP on MIT admissions, but its a given that SSP would reflect well on the applicant at any school.</p>
<p>But yeah, does MIT have any particular affiliation with or look especially highly upon this program?</p>
<p>I think MIT co-sponsors this program.</p>
<p>yeah, caltech and mit both co-sponsor the program. its also affiliated with stanford in some way that im not completely sure of.</p>
<p>and the extent to which itll help you get into schools is debatable. some of us seemed to think that ssp definitely helped us get into schools, whereas people like me think that it would only help like any other extracurricular - youd need to show that you grew from the experience for it to mean anything. but its too hard to say since were all pretty good applicants anyways</p>
<p>the most factual information you can find is the college lists for both campuses. for us (socorro) the guys did seem to have a much tougher time getting into say MIT than the girls did (not trying to say anything, its just how it was for us), and stuff. uh, we all had much better luck with caltech though.</p>
<p>if it makes any difference, ojai had an mit admissions rep actually come and talk to them, and we got an email from the person saying we could email her with questions and that she was sorrys he couldnt come to socorro or whatever.</p>
<p>I think trickysocksman’s explanation is the best; it’s consistent with the matriculation stats in the SSP participant handbook. NB: the part of universities that handles sponsorship of STEM programs (high school, undergrad, graduate, or otherwise) is different from the part that handles admissions.</p>
<p>Anyone get off the waiting list yet?</p>
<p>At Ojai, Caltech sent the head of their admission office while MIT sent an admissions officer… definitely gets you thinking about how much relative emphasis the two schools place on SSP.</p>
<p>I think I’ve said this before, but MIT’s admissions rates for SSPers seemed a lot higher than last year’s (12/26-ish for Ojai '09 but 6/__ for Ojai '08, I think?), which again may be due to the fact that MIT started co-sponsoring the program last year… or maybe '09 just beasts more than the '08ers. Caltech rates for Ojai '09 are probably the same as for Ojai '08…</p>
<p>All in all, though, I think the amount of emphasis you place on SSP is probably the most determining factor in your application. Schools like MIT and Caltech already know what it is and know the experience you get from it, so IMHO there’s not much point to talking about it unless you can really write some insightful essays. Other top-notch institutions may be less familiar with SSP, so your applications to those colleges may benefit from essays about the program.</p>
<p>Is it too late to get accepted?</p>
<p>For those of you who got accepted… I am wondering: Did you talk about your passion for physics in your essay?</p>
<p>Upon reflection, I think not writing about physics is what killed my application - I guess they didn’t the fact that someone who loves biology is applying to an astronomy camp. But I got accepted to Clark Scholars, which is my first choice (it’s also $4600 cheaper).</p>
<p>Good luck to all the SSP’ers!</p>
<p>Yeah I think it’s too late to get accepted. Bowdon said that both campuses are full.
I wrote about my love for cosmology and general relativity in my first essay, but I didn’t talk about physics in any other of the essays except for listing my physics accomplishments.</p>
<p>When I went to Ojai in 2006, they took us on a tour of Caltech and JPL. While we were at Caltech, they gave us an info session on Caltech to just the 36 of us. They all had us fill out a white postcard at the end with our name, contact info, school, and email - we jokingly at the time said that piece of white postcard would be reserved for us in a file somewhere and would be our “magic ticket” into Caltech that coming spring.</p>
<p>Of course, how much of it is true is debatable, but I want to point out that out of all of us that applied from Ojai that year to Caltech, only one person was rejected, while I think 8 or 9 of us got in (only 2 or 3 ended up attending though - a lot of us came to MIT). I highly suspect that there is some “correlation,” but how much of it is there we’ll never know. : ) (oh yeah, there’s 7 of us from Ojai '06 in MIT 2011 right now).</p>
<p>For all you California kids this summer, one of your TAs this summer lives in my dorm! : P She was Socorro '05 : )</p>
<p>^What were the majors of the 7 people?</p>