<p>I just had some questions:</p>
<p>1) How large of an impact would having a published paper be in the college admissions process (obviously there is a range of impact based upon journal, but anyone have any input?)</p>
<p>2) How large of an impact does being a</p>
<pre><code>Siemens Semifinalist
Siemens Regional Finalist
Intel Semifinalist
</code></pre>
<p>have on college admissions</p>
<p>3) Is a published paper more impressive than Siemens or do most Siemens semifinalists end up publishing anyways?</p>
<p>I would think a paper in a prestigious journal (i.e Cell, Nature, Science ect) or a semi-prestigious journal (i.e Immunology, Virology, ect) (impact factor > 6 or 7) would outweigh a Siemens/Intel Semifinalist (this is totally IMO though...)</p>
<p>And the general rule of thumb is that bio papers dont mean anything.</p>
<p>lol. why would you say that?</p>
<p>because anything constitutes as a paper in the field of biology.
And because most high school students who work in labs do biology, so publishing yet another bio paper is not inspiring.
On the other hand, chemistry papers often require novel synthesis/thinking outside of the box, which makes it much more impressive.</p>
<p>what about research that's pretty advanced and sorta original but unpublished(for merely political, economical, geographical reasons ...)??</p>
<p>well my research i guess falls in the bio field, but also the engineering field. Its neural networking in vitro.</p>
<p>Would that fit the typical biology field?</p>
<p>kool! i have neural networking research too ... coupled with fuzzy logic ... it's a simulation of the human eye-brain ....</p>
<p>@imsanerd, that's fine. when i say bio i mean like "lets see where this goes in a cell at varying temperatures and then lets publish it."</p>