<p>I thought I’d come back and answer the questions… </p>
<p>(and here’s another honorary Asian)</p>
<p>RSI Acceptees:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>What did you do the summer after your sophomore year?
Internship at the New England Anti-Vivisection Society. Before you ask (although perhaps not as many CCers would), vivisection is animal experimentation. Nothing to do with science, really, but it was really interesting, because I got to see how a small nonprofit worked, actually get to know everybody, and of course help out with some stuff at the DNC :)</p></li>
<li><p>What college level courses did you take?
AP’s - BC Calc; taking German, Chem, and Computer Science; Linear Algebra (full MIT curriculum from OpenCourseWare), taking Multivariate</p></li>
<li><p>Did you submit any additional work to RSI?
Nope.</p></li>
<li><p>Test scores?
SATI: 1600
SATII MathIIC: 800
Calc BC:5
USAMTS: 70/75
(didn’t submit AMC12/AIME scores - they came too late)</p></li>
<li><p>What awards did you mention in the application?
school awards: “Extraordinary Achievement in Math,” one for my freshman earch science research project, </p></li>
<li><p>Did you do research? How intensive? Summer or during school year?
I’ve done a little bit, but just through school, and not in the topics I selected. I did a project relating relative humidity to daily temperature variation, and a pilot study looking at Piagetian conservation v. rhythm development in toddlers (I know that that sounds random, but there’s a preschool within our high school and we’re allowed to do [humane] experiments on the kids there ^^)</p></li>
<li><p>How familiar were you with the topics you picked for your top choices?
Pretty familiar (well, okay, one course) with linear algebra; not so familiar with computer science. I didn’t think I’d be able to write too intelligently about the really famous problems in either field (P v. NP, etc.) so I just chose questions I’d been puzzling over.</p></li>
<li><p>Finally, what do you think was the deciding factor?
I think I’m a “bear acceptee.” Seriously though, recommendations may have helped me a bit - my chem teacher told me he thought that RSI would be absolutely perfect for me (and probably wrote something to that effect), and I think my calc teacher emphasized how I went out of my way to find proofs for the theorems he expected us to just take on faith.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Hey, my name is Ken. Interested in biology and computer science…</p>
<p>RSI Acceptes:
What did you do the summer after your sophomore year?
Summer student and intern at City of Hope (big one)
Independent research (some good gains, hope to finish off at RSI)</p>
<ul>
<li><p>What college level courses did you take? - Did you submit any additional work to RSI?
AP Euro, AP Bio, AP Comp Sci AB, AP Eng Lit, AP US Hist
Sent extra rec from mentor at City of Hope</p></li>
<li><p>Test scores?
PSAT 235
SAT II Bio 800
Chem 760
Math IC 780 </p></li>
<li><p>What awards did you mention in the application?
Some local stuff…nothing big</p></li>
<li><p>Did you do research? How intensive? Summer or during school year?
Crazy research during summer after sophmore</p></li>
<li><p>How familiar were you with the topics you picked for your top choices?
Pretty familiar…took AP…qualified for USABO</p></li>
<li><p>Finally, what do you think was the deciding factor?
Essay, rec, and research. My essay was crazt and my bio teacher wrote as if I was Fleming.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>hey arun, people voted on my asian-hood, though i can’t say i solicited it–i believe this is a common practice among the caucasoid peoples of North America</p>
<p>hey dan, people who run around waving a petition saying, Hey! Sign this so I can pretend to be asian!, disturb me.
where im from we dont really acknowledge race much, unless youre mexican, then youre screwed</p>
What did you do the summer after your sophomore year?
I took a couple college classes.
What college level courses did you take?
APs: Calc BC, Physics, Bio, World History, Euro History, some other math classes.
Did you submit any additional work to RSI? nope
Test scores? 1590/240, 800 Math IIC, 800 Writing, 5s on APs
What awards did you mention in the application?
just some local math-type stuff
Did you do research? How intensive? Summer or during school year?
some non-intensive research this past year
How familiar were you with the topics you picked for your top choices?
I had a basic idea, but I wasn’t very familiar.
Finally, what do you think was the deciding factor?
Well, I guess I’m going to have to go with the bear factor. Seriously! Actually, the teachers who wrote my recs later told me they were very enthusiastic about the whole thing, so that might have been it.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, I’m Steph from RSI '04, and I just want to say, don’t worry about your resumes and scores (which all sound incredibly impressive, btw!) and whatnot. (For the record, I had never done research before last summer - I spent the summer after soph year on vacation and at field hockey camp.) Trust me, it’s intimidating at first, but if they picked you, you deserve to be there. And when it’s all over, the thing that you’ll remember most isn’t how many times you screwed up in your lab or on your paper (hehe, been there, done that), but it’s all the AWESOME people you’ll meet!</p>
<p>Like, for instance, Nghi, who I have a question for… Did they send out an email announcing the counselors? Because I haven’t heard anything…but knowing me, I may have inadvertently deleted the email. Oops. :)</p>
<p>This post is to congratulate all of you, bump the thread and ask a question: are any of this year’s Rickoids from Minnesota? I’ve heard of one decision (from this thread) related to a MN applicant, but not of any others.</p>
<p>“Like, for instance, Nghi, who I have a question for… Did they send out an email announcing the counselors? Because I haven’t heard anything…but knowing me, I may have inadvertently deleted the email. Oops.”</p>
<p>shuhba, pooja, scott, APK, linda, and I have no idea who the last counselor is.</p>
and ask a question: are any of this year’s Rickoids from Minnesota? I’ve heard of one decision (from this thread) related to a MN applicant, but not of any others.</p>