Summer Science Program (SSP) 2020

I think it is better to wait it out. We are approaching mid April, so admission decisions should come out by the end of this week or by next week. I, like many of you, have spent a lot of time on my application and am super anxious for when decisions come out.

How many of the 1402 applicants do you think were international? And how many international people do they accept out of the 144?

Since 6 international students are selected for each campus, that would make 24/144 people be international.

Does 1402 include international or not?

I emailed SSP and they said that they’re still making final decisions. They should release it by next week

Did they say they’ll release it by next week?

@Asianboi51234 What exactly was your question when you emailed them?

I asked them when the decisions will be released. They said they may be released next week.

Has anyone successfully gotten their results early?

Nothing yet. Just out of curiosity, how did you all approach the fifth essay for the SSP application form? I only wrote essays for two of the prompts (prompt one and two), but included a lot of detail in each essay. I hope writing essays for only two of the prompts doesn’t hurt my chances in any way (I still wrote to the word limit).

@PK1003 I responded to two of the topics in question 5 as well. Why would “only” responding to two of them hurt your chances? Not all of the topics are going to be relevant or applicable to an individual.

@BazookaBanana I don’t think it will directly hurt my chances, but I feel like I missed the opportunity to write information about the other prompts. Like I could have expounded a little more on my ECs.

Wait what?? Did we only had to do two essays? I thought we had to do all of them. Or am I misunderstanding what you are talking about.

@grindtime2021 they’re talking about question #5 where you could choose the topic/s given 4 prompts. I did 3 and I had to cut it down a lot at the end but I got it to 3499

Ohh I gotchu. I responded to 2 or 3 I think.

I did a bit of a blend between 3. That prompt was really flexible so I think they were just making it so you could respond about any really significant experience in your life. So I don’t think they’ll really be counting the number of questions you respond to hahah.

Don’t stress about the last question, I think they just intended it to be somewhere you could put stuff that you hadn’t mentioned before. I already addressed all the other prompts in my other essays so I only answered the ‘list courses you’ve taken outside of school’ question in like 2 sentences, and I ended up getting in (international)

Are they going to be doing stuff today since it’s Good Friday?

Seems like SSP took down the ‘20 admitted students’ essays from their Facebook page. Odd

Did anyone save the excerpts?