Consolidated EA/RD 2012 results thread

[noopsgnitaenam]

Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 780M + 690W + 670C =2140
• SAT II: 800 Math2, 710 Physics, 710 US History, Chem & Bio sucked
• ACT: 29 - not submitted
• GPA: 4.52/4
• Rank: none, top 10%
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): pathetic - AMC 100.5, AIME 1, AP US History 4, AP Statistics 5

Subjective

• Essays: Alright I suppose. End of the world - swimming accident last year that made me change my perspective on swimming and school, what do you do for fun - exploring NYC, department - architecture, what have you created - oboe reeds (probably the most unglamorous things I make)
• Teacher Recs: I guess they were okay- honors/AP physics teacher, AP calc teacher, honors english 2/3 teacher.
• Counselor Rec: I would have no idea, my counselor thought Syracuse was a reach for me...
• Supplementary Material: sent to architecutre department - additional rec from Sryacuse School of Architecture (which is the most awesome rec ever) and portfolio link
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I guess I had something that hooked them.

Personal

• Location: NJ
• High School Type: public, very competitive
• Ethnicity: white & asian
• Gender: female
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: 2 swim teams (current captain), vounteer- swim coach/assisted living center, oboe (school librarian when I was in band, 3 outside groups), classical guitar, flute, NHS, Italian Honor Society treasurer, some other stuff
• Awards: Design Prize from Syracuse School of Architecture (described in my rec from the school)
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Good luck to RD and Congrats!

[piccolojunior]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: 2350 (800 M, 770 CR, 780 W)
• SAT II: Math 2 800, Physics 800, Chem 790, Bio 750, USH 770
• ACT: not reported
• GPA: 99.3 Weighted (highest in class, only average the school reports)
• Rank: see above (school doesnt rank though so they put me as top 5%)
• AMC/AIME:100.5/4
• AP: Biology (self) 5, CS A 5, Calc BC 5, Euro 5, Physics C (I and II) 5, Statistics 5, English Lang 4, APES (self) 4 (not that it matters, but that score is BS), CS AB 4 (self), US History 5, Chemistry 5 (self)

Subjective

• Essays: did the optional and thought both were good but I've gone back and edited my experience essay since November (it was about how a choke at the state geography bee championship round led to a change in my perspective on life)...optional essay is about my business (PM for details, should be launched within the next 10 days).
• Teacher Recs:Great. According to my GC my humanities teacher rec was one of the best in the school's history, and
• Counselor Rec: Probably good, she had me answer a few character-revealing questions over the summer as a guideline and I've known her for 5 years (it's a middle/high school)
• Supplementary Material: None sent for EA
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None...

Personal

• Location: NY
• High School Type: public
• Ethnicity: not reported
• Gender: M
• Applied for Financial Aid: Yes

Other

• Extracurriculars: Track/XC (400/800), Math and academic team, science research on scoliosis, tutoring
• Awards: USNCO national exam, 1st place in the county, AP National Scholar, AIME for 2 years, NYSML for 2 years, Harvard Book Award, National Merit Semifinalist
• Comments: Completely expected, I submitted the rest of my apps today anyway, but a defer-accept (with me sending some supp. materials in) into MIT would be great.

[ducktape]

HOLY MOTHERS I JUST GOT INTO MIT.

Thanks for keeping everyone updated, Judith.

Stats:

• SAT: 2360 (800 M, 800 W, 760 CR)
• SAT II: 770 Math II, 800 Bio
• ACT: 35
• GPA: 4.588 W, 3.99 UW
• Rank: 1/183
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 2 4s and 3 5s

Subjective

• Essays: Awesome. Also, I submitted a supplemental one about how much I wanted to go to MIT.
• Teacher Recs: One super-amazing-fantastic, the other just awesome
• Counselor Rec: Super-amazing-fantastic
• Supplementary Material: Research Abstract, a boggle scorecard (the only words I won on- actin, ides, and uber. Is it any wonder I want to double major in courses 7 and 21L?)
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Sailing Recruit- the coach already called me today about visiting with the team.

Personal

• Location: Michigan
• High School Type: Catholic
• Ethnicity: Irish
• Gender: Female
• Applied for Financial Aid: N

Other

• Extracurriculars: Debate, Lacrosse (Captain, All-State), Quiz Bowl (All-State), and Cross Country (Captain)
• Awards: Just check my stats profile if you're honestly that curious.
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: OH MY GOD I JUST GOT INTO MIT.

I'm seriously on cloud nine. In order to completely appreciate this, though, you just need to understand how it is I got my decision:

I worked at PetSmart today from 11-7, right? So, it's 11:23 (I know this because I like times like that), and I'm just wandering around putting stuffed dog-santa-like creatures away when a woman I work with comes up to me.

HER: Hey, I think you have a hold on park 21.
ME: Seriously?
HER: Yeah, the other Shannon isn't in today.
ME (thoroughly confused): OK. How do I get a call off park?
(she explains it to me, and I pick up the phone)
ME: Hi, thank you for calling PetSmart, this is Shannon speaking, how may I help you?
MYSTERIOUS MAN ON THE OTHER LINE: Hi, this is Ben Jones from MIT Admissions. How are you?
ME (thinking: OH MY GOD): Oh, um, I'm doing good. How are you?
BEN JONES: I'm doing pretty well. Well, I know you're working right now, but it didn't really seem fair for you to have to wait until 7 to get your decision. (I'm just thinking: sht, he is not seriously calling me at work to defer me, is he? This sucks). We just aren't going to let you go to Chicago next year.
ME: (almost awkward moment of silence) Wait... oh my god, I got in? Oh my god! Oh my god! (repeat through entire conversation)
BEN JONES: (I kind of forget what he said here. Sorry, Ben. It was something along the lines of-) I assume we'll be seeing you at CPW?
ME: Heck yes! (I'm not allowed to swear at work) I've only been wanting to go for years.
(5 seconds of filler conversation)
ME: Wait, how did you find me?
BEN JONES: Well, I saw you were working from 11-7, and I read your application, so it was pretty easy to find the number.
ME: Ah.
BEN JONES: Well, go freak out and scare some puppies or whatever it is you do there. Congratulations.
ME: Wow, thank you so, so much!

And with that, I got into MIT. How's that for a story? (And Ben, if you're reading this, I apologize for completely slaughtering this conversation. You're awesome.)

You can read everything on my blog in a few minutes, I just need to get the chance to update it. Oh my god!!

[metaldragon2400]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: Math - 780, Verbal - 650, Writing - 590
• SAT II: Chemistry - 740, Math IIC - 800
• ACT: n/a
• GPA: 3.96 UW, 5.59 W (This is based on the school's system anyways)
• Rank: 8/1272
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Government - 3, AP Literature and Composition - 3, AP Psychology - 4, IB Math SL - 7, IB Chemistry SL - 5

Subjective

• Essays: I thought it was good. I wrote about how being an extremely low income family has made me who I am today. However, I didn't write about creating anything or any additional information because I didn't think anything I had stood out, now I regret that.
• Teacher Recs: My Spanish teacher one was awesome, but I never saw my Math teacher's. I've known both these teachers for two years though.
• Counselor Rec: Really good. I know my counselor really well and she strongly admires me.
• Supplementary Material: None unfortunately.
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.

Personal

• Location: Miami, FL
• High School Type: Huge public school, not competitive at all.
• Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
• Gender: Male
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: Member of Mu Alpha Theta, Phi Beta Chi, NHS, EHS, Asian Culture Club, and Anime Club. I was also in orchestra and played viola from 9th-10th grade. I volunteered all summer of junior and senior year at a retirement home.
• Awards: Math Award for every math class since 6th grade, Questbridge Finalist, AP Scholar Award, and most recently I got 2nd place at some regional math competition.
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'm just your stereotypical Asian . My SAT's are pretty low because I never really cared about Reading and Writing. I didn't study at all and the only thing I ever cared about my entire high school life was getting an 800 in Math. I might just do it again in January and study this time.

[MysticCrusader]

Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 2400
• SAT II: Math - 800, Physics - 800, U.S. History - 780
• ACT: N/A
• GPA: 4.00
• Rank: 1/358
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): European Hist., Calc. BC, Physics Both Cs, Language, Statistics - 5s

Subjective

• Essays: Honestly, I thought they were average.
• Teacher Recs: Great! Didn't see one written by my math teacher, but I think it should be excellent.
• Counselor Rec: Great (I think... didn't see this one either.)
• Supplementary Material: Research Abstract.
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I wish...

Personal

• Location: PA
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: M
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: Math Club Captain (10-12), NHS President, Academic Team Captain, Newspaper Editor-in-Chief, Tennis Varsity (10-12), ARML Team; could add more, but not anything substantial.
• Awards: AMC 10 (150), AMC 12 (141), AIME: 11, USAMO 3 years, MOP 9th.
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: This is really a weight off my shoulders. I just had a nice dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse.

[yanners]

Deferred

Stats:
SAT: 2360
SAT II: 790 world hist, 770 chem, 770 IIC
ACT: n/a
GPA: 4.00 UW/4.76 W
Rank: 1/300ish
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): lots of APs...too lazy to list them all
Essays: evidently not good enough
Teacher Recs: should've been okay?
Counselor Rec: lols
Supplementary Material: CD w. pretty pictures
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): no

Personal
Location: MD
High School Type: suburban, public
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Gender: Female
Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other
Extracurriculars: politics, photography, mock trial, model UN
Awards: natl merit semifin, ap scholar, etc
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: well, i guess that 2360 wasn't enough to compensate for my suckage at math. XD oopths.

[DHowdy]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: 640CR 780M 650W (ewww)
• SAT II: 800 Math Level 2, 800 Physics
• ACT: 33
• GPA: 3.76UW/3.96W
• Rank: N/A
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP History, Physics B, and Calculus AB 555

Subjective

• Essays: I really liked it, ended up using it for everywhere else
• Teacher Recs: One super amazing, one great
• Counselor Rec: I'm scared to know? But I think really good
• Supplementary Material: Maybe I should have...
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): talked to lacrosse coach, taking college calc class

Personal

• Location: MD
• High School Type: Independant
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: Lacrosse, Soccer, Boy Scouts, some other random ones....I play a lot of sports....before applying to MIT I had never heard of what USAMO or science olympiads were
• Awards: Mostly School Awards, National Merit Commended
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Congrats everyone that got in!!! MIT was my first choice so this stinks! But we'll see what life brings in the coming months.

[donaldGuy]

I found my stats post that I typed earlier and then had a crash .. luckily I was editing in an external editor (to change the "[ "s to "["s faster) and I recovered the temporary file

Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 2340 ( 750M, 790CR, 800W)
• SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics
• GPA: 4.5241/4.0 (W/UW)
• Rank: 1/531
• AP Tests: 5s-CS AB, Calc BC, Physics B, English Comp, US History, Chemistry. 4s-Euro, Spanish Lang

Subjective

• Essays: Pretty good .. spent a lot of time on. 3a: playing DDR is relaxing. 3b: Very specific response about Course VI and possible UROPs at CSAIL or Media Lab. 4: Three tiered values - learning (taking hardest classes, learning on own, etc), living (friends, theater, chorus, fun), and loving (community service, caring about others, Boy Scouts, reading Philosophy and studying many different religions in a search for higher truth)
• Teacher Recs: Both forms topped out, Math letter complimentary but not too specific .. called me one of her best students ever and she's been teaching for 30->40 years. Humanities teacher (Spanish) worked on it very hard and it was very good
• Counselor Rec: Amazing. Very MIT-specific and complimentary.
• Supplementary Material: Essay about a schedule matching, facebook impersonating website I repeatedly created (lost code) that got used by over a quarter of my school (of 2400 people). Letter from my Research Mentor at NASA LaRC from last summer
• Interview: went amazing.. met with EC twice at a coffee shop, talked for a total of more than 4 hours about MIT, Life, Politics, Religious truth, Theater, Copyright Law, and many more things than I can remeber

Personal

• Location: Hampton Roads/Tidewater area of Virginia
• High School Type: Public. Math and Science School-within-a-school academy program.
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout, Philmont, National Jamboree), Theater, Chorus, Scholastic Bowl (several time champions), Mu Alpha Theta (VP, tutoring, local math competition)
• Awards: Brickell Scholar (local), Rensselaer Medal, National Merit, Summer Governor's School

I am so happy! sorry to all you who didn't get it this time. Best of luck in the regular round.

Peace,
~Donald Guy

[The Speaker]

Accepted!!!!!!!

Stats:

• SAT: 2110
• SAT II: 720 Math II ; 690 Physics
• ACT: N/A
• GPA: 3.9 Unweighted
• Rank: 15/522
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Muchos AP: US History, Stat, English Lit, Government US, Calc BC, Physics C

Subjective

• Essays: Really good, I love writing essays and I've won a couple essay contests in the past; I just made sure that they knew two things about me: 1) I'm the kid who loves to get involved, to make things happen instead of watch stuff happen or wonder what happened 2) I've wanted to be an engineer since the 5th grade, and still LOVE engineering!
• Teacher Recs: Again, really good; My Band Director and AP Stat teacher both know me very well to be crazy motivated, entirely self-motivated, and just generally the kind of kid who loves to dive in head first and get stuff done; My band director describes me as one of the best leaders he's ever had (I feel like I'm bragging now, sorry!)
• Counselor Rec: Grrrrrrrrrrreat
• Supplementary Material: None
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I can articulate my interest and passions for engineering really well; Accordingly, I think my essay and interview are what pushed me over the edge, despite some test scores that aren't as high as others. I love engineering, always have, and I made sure that came through throughout my app process. I'm also really self-motivated, and it seemed like I articulated that well too.

Personal

• Location: Ohio
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Asian/Native Hawaiian
• Gender: M
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: Oodles; everything you can think of; editor of YB; President/Founder of Foreign Films; Numerous officer like Pres, Vice Pres, and MB Section Leader
• Awards: One or two local leadership awards
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'm just so stunned that I got in! I'm really really thankful for this opportunity, and I wish BEST OF LUCK to all deferred! I guess I also just want to be proof to kids out there who don't have perfect SAT scores that you CAN get in, as long as you're honestly passionate and willing to go that extra mile to articulate what your passions are.
  
  As an aside, I will totaly be making delicious baked goods for all my teachers and my school's counseling office in thanks.

[lalaloo6]

Accepted :-D:-D:-D

Stats:

• SAT: 800M, 800CR, 770W
• SAT II: 800M, 760Physics
• ACT:
• GPA:
• Rank: 2
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC- 84 (highest score at my school; I organized it at my school); AP: 5s- calc BC, stats, apush, french; 4s- physics C mechanics (learned independently), comp sci AB (learned B topics myself)

Subjective

• Essays: not crazily creative, just honest and well-written. I thought they really showed who I am
• Teacher Recs: really great
• Counselor Rec: realllllllly great
• Supplementary Material: music supplements for piano and composition, did the creation essay
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none

Personal

• Location: forty minutes south of MIT lol
• High School Type: large, public with no money
• Ethnicity: American
• Gender: female
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y (will apply for fin aid)

Other

• Extracurriculars: piano, math research, math team
• Awards: don't feel like listing them...
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: congratulations to everyone who got in!! and for those of you who were deferred, figure out what was missing or what can help show you fit for MIT, and SEND IT! I tried to make sure my essays showed all of the qualities I am most proud of, paying particular attention to those that MIT looks for too. So, if you think you match, show it! and GOOD LUCK to everybody!!! I can't believe I got innnn :-D

[njtitans16]

so ducktape how does he have your number? and yeah, just how? hahah.

[benjones]

@ njtitans - it was easy - I read her app --> she listed her employer in her app --> she lamented in a comment on my blog that she had to work until 7 --> her employer was pretty easy to find on the web --> problem solved. :-)

Big congrats to all of you who received good news yesterday! And to those of you who were deferred, please don't lose hope! Lots of folks who have been deferred in EA have ultimately been admitted in RA in March, or from the waitlist in May. Remember that unlike many of our peers, we are committed to only admitting 30% of our class in EA. So for each spot that has been filled, there are at least two spots that remain open.

Happy holidays to all!

-B

[mootmom]

w00t the reappearance of benjones ! Nice to hear from you again, and good luck with the big push on RA admissions. Happy new year.

[benjones]

Happy new year mootmom! Yeah, the workload in the last couple of months hasn't exactly been supportive of my web addiction. Blogging, CC, facebook... all woefully neglected. I will rise again in '08! :-)

[hmk4321]

Deferred

Stats:

• Fee Waiver Used?: No
• SAT I (by section): 800M/740CR/720W
• SAT IIs: 800MII 740USH 670Chem
• ACT: 32-but didn't send
• APs/IBs: AP US History- 5, AP Lang-4, AP Stat-5
• GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.6 Weighted
• Rank: n/a
• Senior Yr Courseload: AP BC Calc, AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Physics, AP Comp Sci
• Number of Apps from Your School: One other that I know of
• Major Awards: Commended National Merit Scholar, AP Scholar
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Squash (Captain, 4yrs), Latin Club (2yrs), Stock club (4yrs), Lacrosse(2yrs)
• Job/Work Experience: Hostess.
• Essays (subject and responses): End of the world- it was decent
• Teacher Recs: Pretty good
• Counselor Rec: Eh average.
• Interview (feel and general location): It went pretty well

[ b]Location/Person:[/b]

• State or Country:
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Respectable public school
• Ethnicity: white
• Income Bracket: upper middle class
• Gender: female
• Hooks:
• Strengths/Weaknesses: pretty average
• Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: competative applicant pool

Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: congrats to those lucky few who were accepted.