<p>oh, my bad. sorry bout that. lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm a sophomore...do you have to necessarily provide evidence that you are graduating early?</p>
<p>It's hard enough getting accepted after junior year...
If you're not REALLY graduating early, or even if you're graduating early and don't have amazing statistics, you probably should wait for junior year to apply.</p>
<p>When and where can we apply for SSP this year? (or start to apply). And RSI is harder than SSP right?</p>
<p>ooooooohhh that's a tricky comparison - it's hard to say straight-out that RSI is harder than SSP. RSI is an independent research project, which you complete under the mentorship of a professional scientist or mathematician, and it can be very very very nerve-wracking to be part of a research group in which everyone knows way more than you do, and you're trying to figure out what's going on and write a 20-page paper on it in four weeks. At SSP you're still having to assimilate tons of new information in a really short period of time though, and when you're sitting in the middle of an orbit determination lecture, you're probably not going to be thinking "omg this is so easy." Especially if you haven't done programming before, SSP is quite challenging. But also probably a little more "chill" than RSI. You get tons of freedom at RSI because everyone's working on their own schedule and going to mentorships, but the schedule is a little more intense (that's not implying that SSP isn't super-intense either, but there was definitely more time to sleep at SSP then at RSI).</p>
<p>^ omg already at ssp there was like no sleep lol.
SSP is easier to get into than RSI but still its not easy to get in. I think applications come out in december?</p>
<p>I know someone who was accepted to RSI but not SSP (several years ago). So you never know.</p>
<p>I’m going to SSP this year. Anyone know how to get started on an independent, extended research project that I could use to participate in ISEF/Siemens/STS?</p>
<p>^can’t you just work on it in your local university, if you live near one?
Anyways, SSP sounds like a great program, even if astronomy isn’t your thing. the downside? no research, which is the reason i didn’t apply.</p>
<p>Is there an acceptance rate for Dodds students?</p>