<p>Lethal_Teapot, you could probably call them, they would understand that you have travel concerns and need a decision.</p>
<p>Its been almost 4 weeks for me now and I'm starting to lose my mind.</p>
<p>You should mail them, you have a case. Do us all a favour that way. And anyway, I remember for the "is your application complete" emails, they had received and logged mine within two days of receiving my courier (I mailed them and found out), but I didn't get the official email until 7 days later. Quote: "We normally log the applications only every few days, which delays notification to applicants". I wonder if they're doing the same nonsense with the acceptance emails.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for me it's only just been 3 weeks today. So I might have to shut up.</p>
<p>i don't know, it's kind of crappy... they said 3-4 weeks. last year they had 3 waves of decisions by this date, if i'm not wrong...
anyway, i'm not sending them another email, i've already nagged them with the application completion email, so i don't want to look like a psycho:P
plus, i don't want do get a response saying: "yeah, why were you in hurry, you got rejected anyway"</p>
<p>that would suck...</p>
<p>i just got an offer from an intership and their asking for my answer, so i'm probably going to email SSP tomorrow...</p>
<p>to pass the time, why dont we all share essays or something</p>
<p>crap... i sent in my apps on fastest delivery the day before final deadline xD</p>
<p>and no email that said apps complete...</p>
<p>crap...</p>
<p>i just emailed them... we see what happens.</p>
<p>Yeah... be careful, my confirmation ended up in my junk mail pile. =O
Luckily I found it. lol</p>
<p>loool thx for telling me that. i just checked my spam folder and there's the confirmation together with bowdon's reply that he sent it several days ago and it prolly went into the spam folder.</p>
<p>would u rather go to this or WTP?</p>
<p>and this thread needs to be more active... so... let's do share essays xD</p>
<p>or at least little parts...</p>
<p>what interesting research questions did you guys pose? I got black holes and galaxies.</p>
<p>interesting topics: me too! 0.o</p>
<p>I hardly remember what I wrote:P
All I know was that those word limits killed me :(</p>
<p>narcissa:
i'd definitely go to this. wtp seems a little...dumbed down? it's for people who aren't really sure what they're going to major in, or atleast, not sure if it's going to be a science, but are good at it.</p>
<p>this is for the hardcore science/math kids.</p>
<p>just fyi since you seem antsy (and I would be too haha). You should get decisions around april 10 unless 2nd round takes a lot longer. The 2 deadlines were ~1 month apart and 1st round was in on march 10.</p>
<p>You guys sound like you wrote really specific/good essays. Mine were sort of broad and really horrendous... I'm going to be the dumbest one there :(</p>
<p>If I had to choose between wtp and ssp (which I don't) then I would choose ssp because physics/astronomy > eecs/mech e for me. just choose what you're most interested in spending your summer doing :)</p>
<p>Sigh. My 'interesting topics' were particle physics, dark matter, and thermoelectricity. Everything I know about them is quite simplified, because my only real interest is math.</p>
<p>It's actually not safe to post whole paragraphs. You never know when you might want to re-use the text, and god forbid someone who likes your ideas has shamelessly cut and paste whole paragraphs for his/her own application. Then the reviewers feed the apps through some software and wolah! You look like you've plaigarised. I've heard stories like that.</p>
<p>my sister is in MIT and she thought wtp was cool. It's only for US kids though. SSP is more selective, atleast going by SAT math scores.</p>
<p>so do SSP officials read these treads? or can i post the answer they gave me without being afraid that they will figure out who I am?
anyway, good answer... happy happy joy joy :D (and that's all you're getting :P)</p>
<p>hmm but i think wtp deemphasizes SAT scores, but they do reject "overqualified" ppl.</p>
<p>Man i am an alternate :(. Whats the number of alternates this year? how many usually get in? Do i still hve a chance or should i just give up? Man i really want to do this program.</p>