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04-10-2005, 07:57 PM
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#31 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Santa Monica, CA
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| I just found out from a friend that a girl from my old high school also in the LA area got into the YESS program. | 
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04-11-2005, 12:35 AM
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#32 | | Member
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| Cool! I doubt I'll get in but I decided to apply anyway. | |
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04-12-2005, 07:47 PM
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#33 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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| I attended YESS last year
Yup, im actually in the website. In the bottom right hand corner pointing at the computer screen. If you have questions sn = drod871 in AIM | |
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04-12-2005, 07:52 PM
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#34 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Champaign, IL
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| did tetrahedr0n get in? | |
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04-12-2005, 08:22 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
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| I ended up not applying taffy. How bout you? | |
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04-12-2005, 11:20 PM
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#36 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Champaign, IL
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| i found other stuff to apply to: Coast Guard Academy AIM, UCSC COSMOS, and Brown Summer Study. | |
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04-13-2005, 07:16 AM
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#37 | | Junior Member
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| anyone get letters? i still haven't gotten one | |
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04-13-2005, 06:05 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redmond,WA. Now InquilineKea
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| I probably shouldn't have inconvenienced my teachers to write recs for this as I face certain rejection - however, the application was good practice for other progs that I really had a chance in.
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04-13-2005, 09:49 PM
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#39 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redmond,WA. Now InquilineKea
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| Decision: Rejected, as anticipated.
The rejection letter was short compared to the rejection letters I received from NASA SHARP and SSP. I anticipated my rejection from NASA SHARP, although SSP's rejection hit me hard.
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04-13-2005, 10:12 PM
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#40 | | Junior Member
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| Sorry to hear that Simfish. Are you still waiting for any other answers? | |
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04-13-2005, 10:29 PM
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#41 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redmond,WA. Now InquilineKea
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| I'm still waiting for HSHSP and UFlorida SSTP (both of which I have a higher chance than at YESS because I'm an Asian male). However, I may not get into HSHSP because the post office returned the envelope because I covered the stamp up with tape - and it said "stamp void when coated" so I turned it in again, after the postmark deadline. 
SIMUW (Summer Institute of Mathematics at the UWashington) accepted me however, and I am almost certain I am going there. As I am also going to the University of Washington next year, SIMUW will help me get acquainted with the university and its professors. | |
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04-13-2005, 10:56 PM
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#42 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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| "SIMUW (Summer Institute of Mathematics at the UWashington) accepted me however, and I am almost certain I am going there."
If you have already been accepted to SIMUW, why are you so obsessed with CalTech YESS? | |
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04-13-2005, 11:23 PM
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#43 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redmond,WA. Now InquilineKea
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| [quote]If you have already been accepted to SIMUW, why are you so obsessed with CalTech YESS?/quote]
Where did you get the impression I was obsessed with the program? I wasn't obsessed, I merely applied to the program and others may find it useful information that I have been rejected. | |
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04-13-2005, 11:37 PM
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#44 | | Senior Member
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| You certainly seem to be obsessed with the possibility of rejection. If you get it, be cool with it. If you don't get in, be cool with that as well and move on to SIMUW or other summer experience. But obsessing about whether you're the right urm to get in or whether someone wasted time writing a rec letter for you to get into CalTech seems "mentally unhealthy." | |
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04-13-2005, 11:53 PM
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#45 | | Senior Member
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You certainly seem to be obsessed with the possibility of rejection. If you get it, be cool with it. If you don't get in, be cool with that as well and move on to SIMUW or other summer experience. But obsessing about whether you're the right urm to get in or whether someone wasted time writing a rec letter for you to get into CalTech seems "mentally unhealthy."
| Forgive me for my lack of understanding of human emotions, but I thought that thinking that I would be rejected would sound a bit... humble and knowledgable about my limits, rather than pretentious in applying to all of these reach programs. Though applying to all of these programs for the sake of applying isn't very healthy, at least I can reflect on the practice I've gotten from applying. And it is imortant for later apps because I can't ask my teachers for too much. | |
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