SSP chance?

davidxavi
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:52:53 +0000

Hi, I haven’t actually been to SSP, but I know some people that have. I would say your SAT, PSAT scores are just a tad bit lower than what I’ve heard about, but everything else looks in fine shape. They do say that you have to be on track to finish calculus by the end of high school, but my friends agree that having a solid calculus background is helpful so you might want to go a little beyond the classroom just this year. Otherwise, you should be fine. Oh, I might also be concerned at the absence of any science research experience, but not everybody they admit does anyway.

On an unrelated note, I saw that you were your school’s Model UN president. I was thinking of starting a Model UN club at my school since it doesn’t have one, but I’ve read that it’s really expensive and people say that you have to compete at colleges against college teams. Is it true that it is really expensive and competition is pretty unbalanced? I don’t want eveybody to get really discouraged by it really fast. Thanks!