<p>I'm just curious....</p>
<p>lol the STS is like a college app ... i don't know the exact details but perhaps they want some gauge of whether you could have actually done your project, and they figure SAT score is a tiny measure of that</p>
<p>Is that the same as the Intel Science Competition? Sorry, I'm not too familiar with these things...</p>
<p>err there are two intel science competitions, ISEF and STS</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sciserv.org/sts%5B/url%5D">http://www.sciserv.org/sts</a>
<a href="http://www.sciserv.org/isef%5B/url%5D">http://www.sciserv.org/isef</a></p>
<p>ah I see.. so kind of like seeing the validity of whether its your own work or not rather than most of it being done by a professor.</p>
<p>Intel is a STS (Science Talent Search!) They're not only looking at your research, they're looking at your potential as a future contributor to the world of science. Your research is just an indicator of that.</p>
<p>This is different than the Siemens Westinghouse Competition which is solely research based.</p>
<p>To put it succinctly: Siemens wants a good science paper; Intel wants a good science person!</p>
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<p>So what if you didn't do any research but got into the International Physics Olympiad?</p>
<p>well research is required to apply... And not to put down the Physics Olympiad, but I think good research would be a better indicator of future success than just the massive mental power the IPhO people have.</p>
<p>ah, thanks for the clarification.</p>
<p>do we need to submit any additional materials then (such as your science course transcript) in addition to your SAT scores when handing in the research?</p>
<p>download the application and see! ;)</p>
<p>simfish, he's not saying that if you did NOT do intel, then you will NOT contribute to science. that is obviously ludicrous!</p>
<p>vecter: as soon as I posted my post, i realised I can just go2 the website and check :D but I still haven't! Amazing how lazy humans can be...</p>
<p>Does this mean to say that if our SAT scores are low, that we can get rejected even if we turn in a good project/paper?</p>
<p>Not all my SAT/SAT II/AP scores are great (including a few science ones), and I’m registered to retake some of them for college requirements but after the Intel application is due so they won’t get to see those hopefully-better scores…I did well in some of my science classes though, but I feel like that might make me appear as “suspicious” or simply a bad-test taker…I definitely did most of the work for my project, not my mentor.</p>