<p>It’s hyde, and I meant statistically. Let’s say something is “probably” going to happen if there is a 90% chance of it happening. 96% of RSI applicants are rejected, and about 87% of MIT applicants. Both of those are above or pretty close to 90%, so both are “probably” going to happen.</p>
<p>haha I’ve been watching this little fight, and it looks like poignantpianist deleted his post that was right in between hyde’s two posts in which he told hyde to be nice. Poignantpianist, I think you should be careful what you say. I was deferred, as were Sarika, Luyi, Adam Solomon (ok he’s not RSI, but he’s cool enough to be), and Peng Shi (not RSI either but 3rd place USAMO).</p>
<p>Hmm, Why is everyone talking about rejection? Cheer up and relax! There will be far more rejections hitting your way in your life. Besides we’re not gonna end up as roadkill on the highway of natural selection. :)</p>
<p>good idea, morality justice.</p>
<p>Zogoto–You make a good point. As an aside, while Adam Solomon is quite the man–intelligent, clever, witty, and devilishly good-looking–I highly doubt he would have had what it takes to get into RSI. But that’s OK, because he already had his mentor then, anyway.</p>
<p>wow… some juniors seem tense. Chill out guys! </p>
<p>PS: I love your statistical analysis Hyde. You seem to forget that the applicant pool is strongly skewed. Not everyone who applies is as good as everyone else. You are assuming that everyone who applies to MIT is averaged out. This doesn’t hold at high caliber schools, where extreme examples of applicants are plentiful. There is a much higher chance of getting into MIT if you are a beast as opposed to just applying because your friends are. If anything, I would definetely raise the percentage of RSI applicants who are admitted to MIT to perhaps 30%.</p>
<p>alright i think it is officially time for an end to all hostilities!! none of us has ever sat on an admissions comittee (at least i think thats a safe assumption to make) so really we have no idea what goes on back there – those of us who are going through the process can only guess and hope we guess right… </p>
<p>The point that started this whole fun little arguement was that RSI is not a direct ticket to college admissions – i wholeheartedly agree… RSI does look great but it can’t make or break you in the college admissions proccess a lot more goes on back there… </p>
<p>Soooo… lets just say good luck to all those applying to RSI – and good luck to my fellow '05s as their decisions come back… and then lets sit back and wait for the letters to flow in! </p>
<p>For those of you who do get into RSI '06 congratulations its an amazing 6 weeks of great fun, new people, new experiences, and yea research i guess… haha jk…</p>
<p>and for those of you who dont… seriously for the bagillionth time! its not the end of the world or even a great tragedy… yes it sucks but there are other ways you can spend your 6 weeks… i keep mentioning my friend from school who also applied RSI but didnt get in – well hes doing absolutely amazingly well!!! he just got into MIT (yes even without RSI its possible … hehe) and the fact that he didnt go to RSI hasnt affected his life – he still did research last summer and hes still amazing! so if the letter comes back and its not what you want… i encourage you to set out to proove that RSI was silly for regecting you – just dont yell at maite… she said she doesnt like that! We all know what its like to not get what we want and we will sympathize and cry with you … but dont waste too much time worrying about it – you have much greater things to do and accomplish in life!</p>
<p>and does anyone know when RSI 06 staff is determined? im anxiously awaiting that decision too hehe </p>
<p>good luck to all of yall! have faith and patience!</p>
<p>words of wisdom never better said in this thread.</p>
<p>indeed. gut gesagt.</p>
<p>kim what does that mean?</p>
<p>well said.</p>
<p>10 more days, oh my.</p>
<p>I’m so nervous about the Alternate AIME. Sorry…irrelevant.</p>
<p>hey yeah, I have that tommorow! Those problems are really quite challenging</p>
<p>Hmm, I took the AIME I-got a 7. So that’s off my worries. But sadly I missed a couple of obvious ones and my shot at USAMO, and didn’t even improve from my sophomore year due to the fact that I spent my whole christmas break writing applications-which so far has paid off already-but still waiting for RSI. 
But anyways, hopefully I can make the USAMO next year, my last shot at it. Tommorow’s the chem exam, with all fingers crossed, hopefully my chem olympiad fortunes are better and I can qualify for USNCO. :)</p>
<p>Hey, do international across the continent applicants receive their acceptance/rejection letters by the end of March or will I have to wait until mid-April or something?</p>
<p>maybe you’ll get an email…? i doubt internationals have to wait longer.</p>
<p>All at the same time lol.</p>
<p>I failed the AIME today. Ahh…I hate you AIME. Didn’t help that math prodigy boy next to me looked really happy as he was doing it…</p>
<p>This is why I am a science freak. Not a math freak.</p>
<p>This was my first year doing any math contests (amc, etc) and with my barely-qualifying for the aime (104.5) I was pretty nervous… but it was a lot of fun! I only wrote down 4 answers by the end of the three hours but I’m definitely going to do it next year too. Sooo much better than regular math tests…</p>