Summer Science Program (SSP)

<p>ok
stats will be posted
5 min
by the way, ruella, do you have facebook/im whatever? we should start one for socorro 2007</p>

<p>i dont really remember what we could fit on the ssp application, and i cant find me essays/short answers right now, but i found my general stats from another forum:</p>

<p>I will have taken between 15 and 17 APs by the end of senior year, and none are self-study. So far, I've gotten 5s on 4 of them (soph year), and expect to get 5s on 6 more this year (in BC Calc and Physics C EM and Mech, for example, all but three people who have taken them in my school over the past 2 years has gotten a 5, the others got 4s). Recs will be good, guaranteed (based on recs already written by the teachers who I will ask). The rest of my stats follow:</p>

<p>Student:</p>

<p>User Name: doctorx017
Gender: M
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.94
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 400</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 730
SAT II World History: 640
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 800
SAT II Physics: 790
SAT II Chemistry: 720</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
debate: 9-12, secretary and captain 10 and 11-12, resp.
crew: 9-12 (good enough for d3, recruited by several colleges)
youth and government: 11-12 president both years
latin club: 11-12, president 12
science olympiad: 11-12, president 12</p>

<p>Volunteer:
~100 hrs/year at local free health clinic: 10-12</p>

<p>awards:
national latin exam (maxima 3 years)
some national french exam (who knows - but they put it on my transcript)
ap national scholar
national merit finalist
tons of debate awards such as 1st place at major national tournament, states outrounds, toc bids (LD)</p>

<p><a href="http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2256361735%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2256361735&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>somebody who is a bit wittier than i should change the description, officers, etc...</p>

<p>INNNNN :D
Ojaiiii</p>

<p>Haha wow, congratulations to everyone. I joined the facebook group--hopefully we'll be joined by some other people soon. </p>

<p>Don't really feel like posting my stats in detail, because they don't really ask for stats in detail on the application (i.e. EC's and all that), but I had very good SATs (except for the only SAT II I've taken so far, Chemistry), 4.0 GPA, and only one AP score (the only one sophomores can take at my school), US Government, which was a 5. Stats definitely helped. I really have no idea about my recs, but I'm guessing they weren't that amazing. My math teacher is kind of a jerk: I asked him about the rec a week after I gave it to him and he completely forgot, so he says "come back at lunch today and I'll hopefully have it for you" so I'm guessing it wasn't that amazing. My physics teacher apparently writes amazing recommendations and he is very impressed with me, but since my physics teacher changed between semesters he had only known me for about a month. So I guess recs weren't a major deciding factor. I do think my essays were quite good though. So I don't really know exactly what got me in, but in any case, I'm happy :).</p>

<p>And I'm surprised no one asked this earlier, but where is everyone from? I live in Maryland, outside of DC.</p>

<p>New York, north of the city</p>

<p>NJ represent!</p>

<p>Claremont, CA but orginally from Hong Kong</p>

<p>which campus?</p>

<p>I got in too!!!</p>

<p>socorro campus one. </p>

<p>My stats are really bad.....AP Chem 5, PSAT 198 :(
nothing special lol</p>

<p>ok... yeahh seems like we have 5 people here that are accepted already
so why not start a list?</p>

<p>Socorro Campus:
doctorx017, NY
Ruella76, MD
kennyk616</p>

<p>Ojai Campus:
freeflyer, CA
09xoxo, NJ</p>

<p>Do you guys know if SSP take any of the waitlisted members??? Or did they fill up all the spots with early applicants already?</p>

<p>Hi guys,</p>

<p>I'm from Allahabad in India and I got selected for the Ojai campus.
Congratultions to all others who got selected for SSP.
I'll be so glad to meet you all there.</p>

<p>Udbhav</p>

<p>btw, I'm from Taiwan :D</p>

<p>Updated List</p>

<p>Socorro Campus:
doctorx017, NY
Ruella76, MD
kennyk616, Taiwan</p>

<p>Ojai Campus:
freeflyer, CA
09xoxo, NJ
udbhav, India</p>

<p>wow, seems like we've got a lot of girls.</p>

<p>aah i still haven't gotten a response... you guys are making me nervous</p>

<p>did you get a conformation that your application was received for early deadline? maybe double check, or if any part of it's incomplete, because the second deadline is... this friday, and you don't want to miss both... :/</p>