Chances at RSI?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>high school junior- Boston Latin School
A’s overall GPA
224 PSAT (80 Math)
720 SAT 2 Latin, 750 Writing
AMC 10- 119
perfect math score on state exam (MCAS)
Research experience with quorum sensing in yeast- worked in lab of Harvard Postdoc
attended NYLF in Medicine 2004
attended various science conferences and lectures</p>

<p>taken high school science courses in biology, chemistry, AP Biology
taken college courses at Harvard on psychology and neurobiology</p>

<p>science extracurriculars: Science Olympiad- group leader, NU-Trons Robotics Secretary and team member, Red Cross- staff board, Pre-MED Society member, HPREP at Harvard Med, Museum of Science Volunteer 150 hrs</p>

<p>Other notable activities:Boston herald teen correspondent, TeenVoices teen ed board (job), Girl TV host, School magazine ed board, Teen Ink student advisor, various other positions, over 1000 hrs volunteer at various places
previous job experience working in dad’s restaurant and as a high school mentor for Writer’s Workshop UMASS Boston</p>

<p>Awards- Science: JSHS nominee, NU-Trons semifinalist
other- MassStar leadership conference- 1 sophomore per school,
Presidential Award for outstanding academic achievement, National
Latin Exam -3 yr gold medalist, Women’s Democracy contest- 4th
place, various school and local awards</p>

<p>very interested in quorum sensing!!!
above average recs</p>

<p>ANY FEEDBACK WELCOME! Thanks.</p>

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<p>anyone at all? please?</p>

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<p>You are truly incredible. I’d say you are pretty much in there.</p>

<p>Best of Luck,</p>

<p>Jerod</p>

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<p>Your chances are probably in the 0-100 percent range. ;)</p>

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<p>RSI, from what I hear of course, is much about your essays and how you convey yourself. If this was college you would be fine, but for RSI, its still in the air.</p>

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<p>you have your foot in the door, but just like a salesman, now you’ve got to sell it :stuck_out_tongue: (i.e. write good essays)</p>

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<p>last comments? I have to turn in my app in a couple of months…
how should I write the essays?</p>

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<p>if you are gonna ask us how to write your essays, they wouldn’t exactly be your essays. Write from your heart.</p>

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<p>o i like how sagar put it. Write from your heart. Write naturally. I wrote my essays all in one sitting. </p>

<p>And like frankenchris said (who is also a rickoid from 04), no one is ever guarantee to RSI. It’s even harder than college admission.</p>

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<p>Yeah writing from your heart is what people want to see, I think people that read essays for admissions to things like Colleges/RSI get used to people writing what they think colleges, etc want them to hear and not what is from the heart.</p>

<p>It gets repetitive and sounds boring. Try to write something that shows what you are about (make RSI think, zxChen06 is this type of person (caring, courageous, etc) through the essay). And don’t let many people revise your essay, revise it yourself so it looks like your style of writing.</p>

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<p>I think that is what seperates many people from getting into things like RSI, or colleges like MIT, Caltech, Stanford, etc. I am betting my college savings that any half-way descent adcom can see straight through the bu11shi7 that most kids right. You can tell when someone is gonna get in, after waiting for the last 9 years of his life, because he speaks freely. In fact, I sometimes think that college adcoms look at 4.0 4000 kids, and are like, wow, this kid has way to much free time. </p>

<p>For example? What are my dreams and aspirations? Sure, I want to save the world by finding the cure to aids, but I want something more: “My dream is to realize my potential, and the gifts given to me to benefit the posterity of mankind, whatever that may be. I want to learn for the sake of learning, research for the sake of discovering, and live each and everyday to it’s full potential.” (Copyright 1999, don’t steal this or I will ****ING KICK YOUR ASS - to be polite, this is mine, i worked hard on it) :)</p>

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<p>well said! was this for RSI?</p>