<p>I agree with stemit, EC’s alone don’t justify acceptance. HYPS won’t accept every Intel ISEF finalist that applies for the class of 2018, as firstly, there’s simply too many, considering that there’s only 1600+ seats, and about 100-200 ISEF Finalists (perhaps lets say about 50 rising seniors in that pool) out there. I do hope for the best, but I realize that I am still just like most of the moderately qualified applicants out there :)</p>