<p>I'm Telling Herrr!!!</p>
<p>I mean... Secretly.</p>
<p>What are you telling her? the HitList? In your dreams.</p>
<p>I'm curious, for those people that are applying to SSP/have applied to SSP,
should the answers we write to the questions be leaning toward/related to science?</p>
<p>I would say that you've just got to be truthful in your essays and write with your heart (that sounds so strange). It's not really important to write about activities and hobbies relating to math/sci. if they are not your major ones. I believe that if you are really interested in Math/sci. it will naturally come out in the essays and there will be no need to overemphasize anything. </p>
<p>On a personal note, I think that maybe most of my responses were some how related to science in general, but that was just me. I'm sure that many wrote stuff totally unrelated to math or science.</p>
<p>There's definately essays that tend to be more personal than scientific (what obstacles have you overcome.. ), and I definately wrote these somewhat more personally (I wrote about being short??), but I guess you could put a science spin on anything. I don't think it specifies, and I think you're fine with either if they like it.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if February 22nd is a postmark deadline or a deadline by which they have to receive the application?</p>
<p>once more ...</p>
<p>it's quiet.</p>
<p>too quiet.</p>
<p>I think it says so on the website... though I remember sending mine out the monday of the week (it was due on a friday), and I assumed that it was due by.</p>
<p>Is there a difference between the deadlines? Do they look on people who submit by Feb. 22 more favorably than those who submit it after.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the stats on getting accepted?</p>
<p>They told us this past summer that somewhere in the ballpark of 275 students applied, and 72 were admitted- I think it's listed somewhere on the website as well, if you want to check.</p>
<p>What is your opinion on if all of those 275 were very serious applicants or just applying on the whim?</p>
<p>I think most people applied to be accepted to and to attend the program... Not too many sophomores and juniors have thought about applying to excessive numbers of summer camps, and the only camp that SSP consistantly loses accepted students to is RSI (though there are a couple in the other direction).</p>
<p>What classof09 said. The application procedure is fairly involved regardless of how seriously you take it, so the pool is going to be fairly self-selective. But it's definitely not as competitive as RSI, and they're looking more for interest than stellar credentials. I was accepted as a sophomore and spent a good deal of the application discussing cows in Ireland and Indian cooking, as opposed to being able to rhapsodize about outstanding accomplishments in science and research experiences.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>cows in ireland and indian cooking - yeah THAT'S a hell of a hook :D</p>
<p>Z</p>
<p>I was just doing the app, and I was wondering, it asks me to talk about my ec's, and I was wondering if I should talk about 1 ec in detail, or state all of my ec's, or something in between?
Thanks to whoever can help me!</p>
<p>I wrote about the 3 most important things I do in some detail, and then kind of listed other things I do that I care a lot about... :)</p>
<p>The cows were a move of desperation. </p>
<p>Because SSP is quite an intense program, it does make sense that you might want to concentrate your extracurriculars on what you find really interesting, so that it's clear that you're willing to focus on something for long periods of time.</p>
<p>like poker and tennis. :)</p>
<p>aka what ssp is really about.</p>
<p>Exactly. lol :P</p>