<p>@alwaysleah I haven’t heard anything either.</p>
<p>I’m going to email them Monday if we don’t hear by then. They did say late March, lol.</p>
<p>Rejected on Friday woo</p>
<p>hey always leah, what were your stats/experience for rejection?</p>
<p>sorry jk. 1st page, right.
Anybody else rejected/accepted post stats!!!</p>
<p>Whee. Rejected Friday as well. Stats for both of us (leah and me) are on first page FYI.</p>
<p>Rejected from J. Craig Venter too. All I have left are NIH (not gonna happen), Florida SSTP, City of Hope, SIMR, and one at UCLA. This is not looking good. Ahh well.</p>
<p>I did not like the rejection email at all. It was confusing and didn’t just get to the point.</p>
<p>^Agreed. My least favorite rejection email yet this year. :P</p>
<p>All they said was, “all the interns have been selected at this time.” At least properly reject me, dammit! Lol I’m not mad. I’m definitely going to apply next year and throughout college until I get in cause this program looks really awesome. I just got wait listed at SSTP. Meh. Okay well thanks for all the support on this thread it helped so much with the loooong wait.</p>
<p>Reposted stats from another thread</p>
<p>This is for future applicants, Ive listed my stats and summer programs I applied to and whether accepted/rejected. Feel free to repost this in the appropriate summer programs threads.</p>
<p>SIMR; Accepted
City of Hope: Rejected
Jackson Lab: Rejected
Clark Scholars: Rejected
Craig Venter: Rejected
NIH SIP: rejected</p>
<p>Stats:
White male from the CA, both parents went to college (ie no hooks)
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.4 W
Tests: SAT 2380, PSAT 231, SAT II’s: Chem 800, Math II 800, French 800</p>
<p>Awards:
Honors list chem olympiad (top 150 nationally)
National merit finalist
Student of the year 5x in high school
AIME qualifier
(some other minor awards)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars etc:
SHARP Research Internship at UC Berkeley in nanophotonics (4 weeks paid, 2 weeks from home unpaid) after grade 11 summer
Science Bowl (President 12; Treasurer 11; top scorer all four years) grades 9,10,11,12
FIRST Robotics (Vice President 11, 12) 11, 12
Marching Band (Section Leader 11) 9,10,11
Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout; Senior Patrol leader for 6 months; ~150 service hours in high school through Scouts) 9,10,11,12
Track (Varsity 1600m runner 11)
Programming Club 12 (Co-founder; experience with Python).
Genetics Course 3 weeks @Johns Hopkins University through CTY, summer 9</p>
<p>AP/honors courses:
AP Calculus AB (AP test score: 5) grade 11
AP Chemistry (score: 5) 11
Honors English 11
Honors Physics 11
AP European History (score: 5) 10
AP French (score: 5) 10
con’t
Honors Trigonometry 10. Grade 12: AP Biology, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics B, AP Economics (Micro and Macro), AP Literature & Comp.</p>
<p>Science courses:
AP Biology (grade 12) A+
AP Physics B (12) A+
AP Chemistry (11) A,A
Honors Physics (11) A,A
Chemistry (10) A,A
Biology (9) A+,A+</p>
<p>Math courses:
AP Calculus BC (12) A
AP Calculus AB (11) A,A
Honors Precalculus and Trigonometry (10) A,A
Adv. Algebra II (9) A,A
Geometry (8) A,A</p>
<p>Essays: my SIMR essays were a bit better than my essays for other programs. I would say my essays were all right. I talked about my research internship last summer, and how I continued researching from home for 2 weeks to get good results; a little about my research interests (which were vague, I must admit); briefly about other qualifications (Im willing to work hard, i can work with others, as evidenced by xyz, etc.) Overall, my essays were not very personal, which was probably a weakness.
The one exception was the SIMR diversity essay, which was quite good.</p>
<p>If you think you might possibly have a shot at any summer program, apply for it, it can’t hurt. That being said, make sure you have backup plans, and apply to LOTS of programs! I was rejected from 5 summer internships before I heard back from SIMR! There is some inherent uncertainty in the selection process; plan accordingly.</p>
<p>That being said, best of luck!</p>
<p>Colleges</p>
<p>Accepted:
Stanford (thats where I’m going)
Caltech
Rice
Duke
UCs (B,LA,SD,D all with regents)
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Waitlists:
Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Wash U in St. Louis</p>
<p>Rejections:
Yale</p>