<p>@MaterMia: yep! :)</p>
<p>@iamaturd your stats look good to me, way better than mine look… o.0</p>
<p>haha (: I think I saw this on another year’s forum, but just making sure… I had a research mentor/professor from this past summer at Iowa SSTP, but he only came in every other day to lab and I only had around 3 conversations with him the entire 6 weeks. I worked mostly with a graduate student, but she has since graduated as well and moved away… I doubt the professor even knows my name, much less would know enough about me to write a letter for me. So, I asked my school science teachers… okay, right?</p>
<p>Question spam T.T:</p>
<p>For classes that we took on the online portion of the app, if it’s an AP, does it count as “Honors” or “College”?</p>
<p>It requests 2 rec letters and if you did research, a letter from the mentor. So if I did research twice separately, should I have my recs be all from mentors or should I still ask a teach?</p>
<p>How important is knowledge of computer language? >__<</p>
<p>Haha, sorry for the bombardment of questions. They’re coming like dodgeballs lol. Anyway, any advice would be totes appreciated ~</p>
<p>I have a similar problem, since I’ve taken a few college classes and am doing a supercomputing internship right now. I don’t know my professors and internship supervisor as well as I know my high school science teachers, so I have no idea who to get my recommendations from.</p>
<p>Thad might sound wierd but is anyone else scared to apply. I almost don’t want to cause I don’t want to get rejected. It should scare me but still. any one else terrified to send their app???</p>
<p>Mentonin: " If you don’t apply the chances of your admission are 0%. Seriously, don’t close doors for yourself. Rejection letters are much better than missed opportunities."</p>
<p>If you’re scared, still apply; you won’t regret it.</p>
<p>I am terrified Rbstark. Seriously. Every time I stare at my essays, which are half done and need a LOT of finishing, I laugh hysterically. Also, for those of you waiting for PSAT scores… my GC told me our school’s were going to arrive in less than a week. SCARED!!!</p>
<p>Hey 
I’m new to this forum and am going to apply to RSI. In what field studies are you all interested? I’m considering materials science, and biophysics.</p>
<p>@WeIsCool send your SAT, then! (I don’t <em>think</em> PSAT is a must.) Did that get resolved in your favor, by the way?</p>
<p>@laurab: Bio all the way! Genetics, germs, and babies. <3</p>
<p>@shinexalive ahhh no. Turns out the curve was just really bad… I only got 2 or 3 wrong total for each subject and still got a pretty weak score. Waiting for my answer booklet and answers so I can see what I did wrong, retaking January</p>
<p>and @lauab1220, I was looking into biology and chemistry: Would biomaterials fall under chemistry or material sciences or biology? hmmmmm</p>
<p>I’m applying for Astrophysics and Comp Sci.
We don’t have to send PSAT scores, right? I thought that I would just send my SAT score.</p>
<p>@rdcolina That’s what I thought/think. I’m pretty sure… o.0 (or at least I hope so really hard)</p>
<p>You don’t have to send in your PSAT scores.</p>
<p>You only send your PSAT scores if you don’t have your actual SAT or ACT scores yet (or if you did better on the PSAT than the other two tests).</p>
<p>Can we get a recommendation from an internship supervisor if the internship wasn’t necessarily research? Also, is the research mentor recommendation in addition to the two teacher recommendations?</p>
<p>@ WeIsCool-Biomaterials falls under biology? That’s definitely a tough one.
@shinexalive - Yesss! :D</p>
<p>I’m considering applying to governor’s school (free)…and a few backup programs (cost :/) also for the summer. If I get RSI though, I am 100% accepting and going to it over the other programs.
I hear the acceptance rate for RSI is ridiculously low.</p>
<p>@laurab: a little lower than “ridiculously low” is about correct T.T</p>
<p>Hello,
I’ll be applying to RSI next year. Is there any way I can access the application this year?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@moose97: I’m not sure. I guess you could make an account and never submit it… but there’s not much to it. It’s just your basic application.</p>
<p>@laurab1220: Ummmm, 2 to 3% acceptance rate… so… yeah. And almost every applicant will be qualified, if not overly qualified.</p>
<p>@calcc: I called the RSI people today because I did not want to get a letter from my research mentor, and they said that the two teacher recs were what most people submitted and they called the research mentor letter “supplemental”. But they also hate extra things apparently. So, might want to call them too. Here’s their number: (703) 448-9062 and they operate 8:30 to 5:30 Eastern time on weekdays</p>
<p>So…I just got my PSAT results back.</p>
<p>80 CR
67 MA
70 WR</p>
<p>Total score of 217. Truth be told, I’m quite disappointed in these scores (I got a 232 on the official CB practice test). </p>
<p>During test day, I locked up on math and proceeded to miss quite a few questions. However; the SAT practice tests I have been taking have regularly been in the 750+ range for math.</p>
<p>Will I be able to get in even though it’s not a 220?</p>
<p>(at least I’m from CO so the NMS selection index is nice and low)</p>