<p>o.0 Well that was an unnecessarily lengthy post. whoops. XD</p>
<p>^ haha :)</p>
<p>they mail out letters right? so… does that mean int’l applicants get their letters like… weeks after everyone else gets them? :o</p>
<p>acai, do you mind posting your stats?</p>
<p>haha, i’d rather not. I didn’t have much going for me in the science area other than “expressed interest”… I had a couple math things, but nothing particularly significant.</p>
<p>how many people does RSI accept a year?</p>
<p>How many people TURN DOWN the acceptance and choose not to go in a year?</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight acai! I’m glad you had such a great experience, and I’m sure your post will be helpful to us as well as future applicants :]</p>
<p>I kind of phased RSI out of my mind, pretty much telling myself I’m not getting accepted…ehhhh c’est la vie :P</p>
<p>i wonder when this thread will pick up pace… around late feb? (when results apparently came last year?)</p>
<p>Do acceptances/rejections come by snail mail or email?</p>
<p>i think by snail mail. I wanna know now!!! :/</p>
<p>haha. omg i’m gonna get someone else to open the envelop for me… and they can do a dramatic presentation of the good news or bad news :).</p>
<p>wow check this out i never noticed this:</p>
<p>[Ten</a> RSI Alumni in Intel STS Finals | Center for Excellence in Education](<a href=“http://www.cee.org/news/2009/02/11/ten-rsi-alumni-intel-sts-finals]Ten”>http://www.cee.org/news/2009/02/11/ten-rsi-alumni-intel-sts-finals)</p>
<p>notice that of the 10 kids, 3 are from CA. this is surprising because that means out of the 50 nationally chosen kids, that year there were probably even more than 3 chosen from CA</p>
<p>either that, or because there are so many more kids applying from CA, the three they chose were exceptionally awesome, even by rsi standards, so they made better projects. Also, you really need a bigger sample size (says the girl from a small state who still wants a chance).</p>
<p>bump 10 char</p>
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<p>Right, so a friend of mine has parents who both work at UPenn and they run a five-week lab internship which, unfortunately, almost totally overlaps with RSI. Their program is prestigious enough and has a very competitive entrance…and I’m pretty sure that I have a higher chance of getting in that program than in RSI (which is basically…as we all know…a crapshoot even for the best of the best). Problem is that the application to that program is binding: if I get accepted I HAVE to attend that program. Problem is…what if…somehow…I miraculously make it into RSI? Then I won’t be able to go! But if I don’t apply…and I get rejected from RSI…I won’t have anything to do! The early deadline is March 1st (decisions are announced about the same time as RSI) and from what I hear the Penn program only really has the Regular deadline (April 1st) for left-over slots…of which there are few. What do I do? My parents want me to go to the program at UPenn because they’re over-protective and want to spend the summer with me and all that sugary crap so I’m not really trusting their judgment per se…(they don’t even want me to go to COLLEGE out-of-state…and my first choice will be MIT :…theirs is UPenn…ironic that this conflict should play out a year early in so similar a way…). Help?</p>
<p>go ahead and apply to the upenn thing. If you get into both, ditch it for RSI. What can the upenn guys do to you? ^.^</p>
<p>If Upenn is your dream school or something, then you won’t get into RSI. If it isn’t, then don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>so apparently ppl received a letter from RSI by late feb last year? does this mean they would have mailed out their decisions by feb ~20 ish? D=</p>
<p>was last year the first year they sent early notices or …</p>
<p>dum dum DUMMMMMM. </p>
<p>I don’t know, but I sure hope they send early notices again. It would save me the trouble of doing even more program applications.</p>
<p>^I do too, just for closure’s sake. Even though there’s an infinitesimal chance for me, there is that teeny teeny teeny bit of hope :[</p>
<p>Ah well. I won’t be too upset because I have alternate plans this summer, but they still aren’t RSI.</p>
<p>@hopeland: I know how you feel, I didn’t apply to NJ Governor’s School because my school binds its nominees to attend if accepted. </p>
<p>I would wait on your RSI application (hey, you filled out the entire app! ;] ), and if you are not accepted, send in your app to the UPenn program as soon as possible. If they have the regular deadline, they must have some spots still open then, even if less. </p>
<p>There are a lot of other really good summer programs out there as well to look at, so if RSI doesn’t work out, and even the UPenn program, there are a lot of wonderful options :]</p>
<p>At RSI, are you given a research project to work on or do you do whatever you want to do?
Also - if the latter, are you supposed to work on the ideas mentioned in your essay?</p>