<p>I got in. 100% Challenge Math and 100% Easy Math. ~90+% Science. I never saw the rec, and I didn’t even know the writing part was an essay, so I put random stuff in it.</p>
<p>I live near Central NJ, more towards the Southern side.</p>
<p>By the way, does anyone know how hard the number theory course is?</p>
<p>As in, would it help me if I can already solve IMO (International Math Olympiad) number theory problems (mostly #1s, though :P)?</p>
<p>Hey guys, I just got in. I live in northern NJ and the mail just came
I got 2wrongs and 10 rights on the challenge math section.
Does anybody know what courses are offered?</p>
<p>ACCEPTEDDD<3 lovin life:)</p>
<p>@solarflare: I have heard that the NT course is really bad…</p>
<p>@morpheus44</p>
<p>do you know anything about human physiology course or organic chemistry course?? Thanks :)</p>
<p>^ second that question.
I want to know about those 2 courses, too. :P</p>
<p>i heard ALOT of people take organic chem, and its a pretty good class according to people from last year b/c they had an awesome teacher…but i had one question, how do you guys know how many you got right/wrong on the entrance exam???</p>
<p>hey 
I got an acceptance letter yesterday 
i answered 11 challenge and got all right if not 1
i live in northern nj
im a rising sophomore</p>
<p>I also received my acceptance letter yesterday as a rising junior. I believe i answered between 10-12 on the challenge section correct, with a good portion of the science and easy math correct. it felt good to get accepted haha</p>
<p>accepted!! I flunked the science section. Probably got 70%. 90% easy math. and 12/15 challenge.
Does anyone know what courses are offered?</p>
<p>@ivycraze - you can check the website for the list and descriptions</p>
<p>Got in.</p>
<p>What are the best courses?</p>
<p>The list of courses is on the website, as is the contact information. In my experience, it’s pretty hard to get ahold of them during the week. They return calls several days after the fact… I once confused Dr. Blaer with my mother when he called me on a Tuesday x.x</p>
<p>Attendance policy is pretty strict (limit 4 absences with decent excuses). Some teachers (achem, Blaer’s son and daughter-in-law) are tougher with that policy than others. Avoid Java and Psych if you think you’ll be late a lot. Possibly Particle Physics too since that’s taught by the awesome British assistant director. Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Nanotech were pretty lenient. </p>
<p>As for the cool classes: most people like the lab classes, like the physics one, though I enjoyed Cosmology and Java a lot, too. Cosmology was a friendler-than-average atmosphere (in Astrophysics you sit in monastic silence for 2.5 hours) and Java was more hands-on.</p>
<p>Though you shouldn’t do this for college, it’s not going to hurt. For some reason, every senior in my spring Cosmology class was going to Harvard, MIT, CIT, Yale, Princeton or Columbia. I don’t know what kind of weird coincidence that was… try to take Cosmology when you’re a senior?</p>
<p>Hi, neon. So I was never officially rejected, but since the program started yesterday… I think that’s it for me 
I’m doing some atmospheric physics stuff at Brookhaven instead.</p>
<p>I’ve heard organic chem is lot’s of fun. I liked the one about lab techniques concerning bacteria (it had a really long name) but I’m not sure if it’s still being offered since the professor moved after I took it. Human physiology was really boring, but a lot of people take it every semester anyway. I took the ecology course, but I couldn’t tell you much about it since it was second semester senior year and I only ATTENDED 4 times, let alone being absent only 4 times.</p>
<p>@thebalticsea, what do you mean by “the program started yesterday… I think that’s it for me” doesnt it start in september?</p>
<p>for the relativity course, would it be necessary to know some calculus?
if so I might take something else for a semester before doing math-based physics</p>
<p>jrp, I never took the course but I read a book on relativity and it’s definitely not necessary depending on what’s being taught. I ignored the calculus (which was actually pretty little overall… and I took calc BC, it really didn’t help for the level of calculus in the book) and I still have a pretty good idea of what relativity is about. I think the main thing is that it’s kind of hard to visualize, but I’m sure whoever’s teaching it will do a much better job than the guy who wrote the (obvious) 2-D book in the 80s. It’s really interesting too! I wish I’d taken some physics courses instead of all bio ones.</p>
<p>@rainbowrose
ok awesome, thank you so much! the descriptions for the physics courses sounded more exciting and “out there” than bio or chem. but that’s just me… I think I might be a closet physics nerd :)</p>
<p>@daniel, that was in reference to a summer program</p>