Just wondering if everyone else got the same number of rejections I did lol
Research/Summer Programs:
Stanford STaRs: Rejected second round
City of Hope: Rejected
Cornell Plant Genome: Rejected
George Washington Carver: rejected
SRAP: Rejected
Arthiritis Foundation: Rejected
GWC: Waitlisted
NIH: Accepted (going there, just waiting for official paperwork)
Canary Center: Waiting
GeneCamp: Waiting
Stanford Earth Science: Waiting
Coriell: Waiting
UTD Nanoexplorers: Waiting
Misc/Others
Local Uni Engineering Introduction: Accepted (Attending right now)
Habitat Restoration Intern: Rejected second round
Summer Camp Intern: Rejected
Local Leadership Summer Camp: Accepted (going)
Park Development Intern: Waiting
Leadership Institute: waiting
Yes, I died during application season. T.T At least I’m ready for college apps now. What about you guys?
My daughter applied to 8 and so far has been accepted to 2 but waiting for 2 so I don’t want to say which at this point but what interests me about your post is the amount of work it took to apply to those programs and how, at least at her high school, there is no protocol for asking for recommendations as there is for college applications so she felt awkward going back to the same teachers for all those recommendations. Also, unlike college applications where at least there is a common app, she had to write 8 different sets of essays. She ended up not applying to two programs just because she couldn’t write any more essays while keeping up with her classes. Also, the different application deadlines and different notification deadlines add another layer of stress. Also, although she goes to a very academic high school, there is no list of recommended programs so she researched all of the programs herself and one teacher told her that one of the programs she was applying to was “for minorities only” when there was nothing to indicate that (and in fact the teacher was wrong). So for all those reasons, I actually think the college application process, while stressful, will be relatively straightforward compared to this.
Science:
NIH: waiting, but since I was too lazy to email researchers it is definitely a rejection
UF SSTP: waitlisted, then rejected
Iowa SSTP: waitlisted, will attend if accepted
Boston Leadership Institute: accepted
UConn Mentor Connection: accepted
Smith Summer Science and Engineering Program: accepted
CDC Disease Detectives: waiting
Others:
JCamp: rejected
Girls Leadership Worldwide: accepted (hope to attend, but I can only go if I get into Iowa, as the dates for GLW and the science programs I actually got into overlap)
ANNPower fellowship: waiting, expecting rejection. If I don’t get in I will be going to my local HOBY conference.
So basically I got into all of my safety programs, and now have no idea what to do because I want to go to GLW but the science programs I got into conflict with it.
Also, just sayin @swiftyfan13x , if you are going to the NIH this summer, it really does not matter how many rejections you got because that is an awesome program, and is probably the most well-regarded one on your list. So congrats about that!
MITES: Accepted to E2
Notre Dame Summer Scholars: Accepted, didn’t get the Alumni Association scholarship so I’m not going
MIT MathRoots: should hear back this week
SPARC: waiting to hear by May 15
CMU summer programs for diversity: waiting to hear back in mid-May
UMich SCEEP: waiting to hear back early May
I’m hoping to get into MathRoots and SPARC to be able to do those 2 and e2.
COSMOS–accepted (Number Theory and Discrete Math, UCSC)
Stanford Earth Sciences–accepted
UCSC SIP–rejected (one of my teachers didn’t submit a rec when they asked for two, though, since they sent the form to him three days before the deadline)
I’m going to Stanford because it’s free and it allows me to do other stuff (city marching band, AP prep, community college classes).
I’m kind of mad about SIP, though–even though I wouldn’t have gone because I got into Stanford (sadly, Stanford sent the acceptance email the day after the SIP deadline, so I wasted $50 applying), the people there were incredibly irresponsible and didn’t send my teacher the recommendation form until three days before the deadline; I sent them an email about the teachers not getting the emails (our district email servers were down) several weeks before the recommendations were due, but SIP didn’t respond until I had emailed them several times more. I’d like to know whether I would have gotten accepted if the rec had been submitted (and it would have been a good one–that teacher wrote me a rec for each of the other programs as well).
