Don't disregard SSP

JSuresh
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:27:42 +0000

Typically RSI students are selected under the same guidelines, if not stricter, than that of the top colleges. So they naturally end up going to great universities and such. SSP is less selective (~25% get in, where in RSI ~10% I get in, i believe) but the program itself is still spectacular. RSI focuses on individual research, SSP focuses on an actual curriculum of programming, high-level calculus, astronomy, and programming to do the SSP project (tracking an asteroid w/ orbital mechanics). Both RSI and SSP help your chances in getting into top colleges because first of all you got into the program, second of all you had the initiative to spend your whole summer being a total g33k! :)