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A white kid from my school got accepted to MIT two years ago with a 1420 SAT, 3.69 GPA, and no science/math ECs that I knew of. He was good at football though. The other ECs he had listed on the yearbook were nothing impressive at all. Me on the otherhand, i scored a 1560, have a 4.2 GPA, aced my APs and SAT IIs, did a bunch of science related ECs in and out of school in addition to some noncompetitive tennis and viola. I ended up getting waitlisted. I did get into stanford and caltech, and I know there were people with much more impressive stats who also didnt get in, so I cant really complain. But I do think that MIT should try to be more like caltech and less like Harvard in its admissions. Honestly, whats MIT trying to do by recruiting athletes? Win the NCAA? An "Institute of Technology" should select students based on their potential in science and engineering, and not on irrelevant talents that will somehow contribute to "diversity." But hey, MIT can run their own admissions the way they want to.
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