Consolidated EA/RD 2013 results thread

[columbiaorbust]

Deferred

• SAT II: 720 math,760 bio
• ACT:33
• GPA:3.9 UW
• Other Tests AP bio, us, english all 5s
• Essays:i liked them
• Teacher Recs: excellent
• Supplementary Material: none
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nope

[reozdowy]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT:
• SAT II: 730 Math I, 650 Chem. Pretty terrible. I know. I took Math II and Chem again and am awaiting the results.
• ACT:34
• GPA:3.8 UW. 4.4 W
• Rank: top 10%
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 7 APs total.

Subjective

• Essays: About me experiencing the tsunami and terrorist attacks first hand.
• Teacher Recs: great - I presume
• Counselor Rec: great - I presume
• Supplementary Material: I wrote about my idea of using interchangeable lithium ion batteries to power cars.
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nope

Personal

• Location: PA
• High School Type: average
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male

Other

• Extracurriculars: NHS President, School Store manager, FBLA Officer, Chess Club co-founder, Spanish Club
• Awards: None worth mentioning
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

I'll take it. I think I will have a better chance in the RD pool anyways. My GPA is a 5.0 W, 4.0 UW right now, and I am getting a job at the University of Delaware doing research. Congratulations to all two of you people that actually got in!

[elcoco]

Accepted


Stats:

• SAT: 2300
• SAT II: 800 MATH, 780 CHEM
• ACT: n/a
• GPA: 3.9
• Rank: School doesn't rank, but in the TOP
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):

Subjective

• Essays: i thought they were good
• Teacher Recs: good?
• Counselor Rec: good?
• Supplementary Material: none
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):

Personal

• Location:USA
• High School Type: public
• Ethnicity: asian
• Gender: F

Other

• Extracurriculars: environmental awareness <3
• Awards: nothing special, some state and national awards
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

Congrats everyone!

[strife15]

Rejected

Stats:

• SAT: 2300 (M: 800, CR: 710, W: 790)
• SAT II: Math IIC: 770, Chem: 790
• ACT: None
• GPA: 3.5 UW (This was probably the reason)
• Rank: Unknown, but not even close to the top 10%
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): None

Subjective

• Essays: Good.
• Teacher Recs: Good as well.
• Counselor Rec: I think this was pretty strong, the counselor liked me and thought I fit MIT pretty well.
• Supplementary Material: None
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.

Personal

• Location: East Coast
• High School Type: Public, but many kids into top schools
• Ethnicity: Indian. Not a US citizen either.
• Gender: Male

Other

• Extracurriculars: Varsity Tennis, Founder of School Engineering Club, School MUN VP
• Awards: National Merit Commendation, couple MUN awards, Moody's Mega Math Competition top 60 Teams, Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams top 32
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

I'm a bit surprised, to be quite honest. I really loved MIT so I guess I'm also a bit saddened.

[swimguy112]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: did not take
• SAT II: Physics: 800 Math II: 800 Biology M: 750
• ACT: 35 [34 E 36M 36R 36S 10W]
• GPA: 4.0/5.15
• Rank: 1 of 435
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Stats: 5 AP Calc: 5 AP Bio: 4 AP human geo: 5 AP macroeconomics: 5 AP U.S. History 4

Subjective

• Essays: Probably led to my deferral
• Teacher Recs: good
• Counselor Rec: good
• Supplementary Material: none
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): MIT coach wrote rec for me, but doesn't really matter for DIII

Personal

• Location: MN
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: male

Other

• Extracurriculars: too lazy to list
• Awards: see above
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

bleh. not my first choice, but I'm still disappointed

[HarvardBound7]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT:n/a
• SAT II: Math 1(740) Biology M(720)
• ACT: 31
• GPA: 4.0 unweighted
• Rank: 1 of 55
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): n/a

Subjective

• Essays: Wrote moving essay about a summer of suffering the deaths of 3 loved ones. Decribes the situations' impact on me and my future ambitions.
• Teacher Recs: 2 Stellar recs
• Counselor Rec: Stellar ++
• Supplementary Material: Opted to write in the "additional info" essay about my scientific research studying a specific spider species and their sociability changes.
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): haha. No, nothing *quite* like that.

Personal

• Location: Tennessee
• High School Type: Private, parochial.
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Female

Other

• Extracurriculars: All academic societies, FCA President, Cheerleading Co-Captain, Yearbook Editor-in-Chief, Reading, Guitar, etc...
• Awards: Governor's School (1 of 30), NSHSS, Who's Who Among High School Scholars, All-American At Large, U.S. Achievement Academy (Service & Leadership and English), etc...
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

No advice... not sure what I did wrong? :\

[StacyOgie]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: 1870 (630 Critical Reading, 600 Math, 640 Writing)
• SAT II: 550 Math 1, 520 Biology
• ACT:N/A
• GPA: 3.81W (honors courses taken in Texas but not factored into this GPA)
• Rank:Top 1%
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):

Subjective

• Essays: Intended major: Computer Science. What you do for fun: Drawing.
  Personal Statement: how working as a "janitor" along with my parents started my love for animation. Creation: website made for friend who is a rapper. Optional: how my mother's cancer motivated me to want to research cancer to find a cure. Supplemental:how much I wanted to go to MIT
• Teacher Recs: Humanities:lukewarm. Science teacher's was absolutely amazing
• Counselor Rec: Don't know about the quality but I assume it was good.
• Supplementary Material: Art portfolio
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): low-income, inner city school, obstacles

Personal

• Location: Boston, MA
• High School Type: Inner-city (you start pre-algebra type classes in the 10th and start pre-calc in 12th. Science courses are a joke. No APs, IBs only four "core" classes)
• Ethnicity:Nigerian
• Gender: Female

Other

• Extracurriculars:C++ Programming, 3D Animation, drawing, Computer graphics,<-- all self taught Future Engineers Club, Harvard GSD summer program, Harvard GSD citizen's schools
• Awards: Radioshack Scholar, various school awards
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

First of all, congrats to everyone who got in, and I'm really sorry to those who did not.

I am really excited(weird huh). I seriously thought that my application would've been flat-out rejected. Now before anyone says anything, I'd like to put myself within context because many feel that minorities have the "easy way out." First off, I'm not even from Boston; I'm originally from Texas. I stayed there until my sophomore year. However during my freshman year, I had to follow my parents to the janitorial service jobs. Every Friday, my parents would take my brother and I to this gas station/Wendy's at 12 o'clock at night. We would help them sweep and mop. On Sundays it was even worse. My father had suffered from many strokes and could not do the work so I had to vacuum sixteen rooms and sweep a huge warehouse. My mother at this time was working double shifts at a nursing home and soon contracted sarcoma cancer. We were forced to move to Boston and stay with my aunt. After a year, we moved from shelter to shelter and finally to the projects we currently reside in that has a rep for murders and shootings.

I know that I'll probably get blasted for even being deferred but I wanted to give hope to those who are in situations like mine.

[zhonginator]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: 2250 (660 CR, 800 M, 790 W)
• SAT II: 770 Math II, 770 Physics, 760 Chem, 750 US Hist. 690 Bio M
• ACT: didn't submit
• GPA: 3.875 UW
• Rank: 50/821 (top 6%)
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): US History: 5, AMC 10: 100.5

Subjective

• Essays: ok
• Teacher Recs: one was ok, other was somewhat good (guessing)
• Counselor Rec: decent, dont really know her
• Supplementary Material: none
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none

Personal

• Location: suburban Atlanta
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: Male

Other

• Extracurriculars: Science Olympiad, Key Club, West Point Bridge Online, Science NHS, Mu Alpha Theta
• Awards: French NHS membership, high class rank award, excellence in math/science school awards, summa cum laude on Latin I National Latin Exam
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

This is ****ing me off

[omgitsover9000]

Deferred

Stats:

* SAT: 2360 (770V 800CR 790W
* SAT II: 800 Math II 800 Bio-M 790 Chem
* ACT: 35
* GPA: 4.74 W, 4.00 UW
* Rank: top 1%
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10: 126.5, AMC 12: 108; Aime: 4,5, respectively. APs: Bio, chem, gov, comp pol, 5's
* Essays: Pretty good, could have been better.
* Teacher Recs: Excellent
* Counselor Rec: Should be ok
* Supplementary Material: Research paper
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Chess, research?
* Location: Midwest
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
* Applied for Financial Aid: Y
* Extracurriculars: Chess (top 40 in nation), research (several papers submitted/published in peer-reviewed journals)-worked for 3 summers in same lab, 20 hrs a week part time during school year, some other stuff... Journals that I have submitted to/published: Organic Letters, Cancer Science, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Nature: Chemistry
* Awards: Siemens semifinalist, National merit semifinalist, AP scholar with honor
* Supplemental material: Recommendation from professor...maybe i should have sent in a paper like I did for Caltech?
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: uhhh.....thought I would get in...mentor even called MIT lab director to recommend me for next year...

[lavieboheme]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: 2160 (730 CR 710 M 720 W)
• SAT II: 700 Math II, 710 Chem, 750 History (not put on app)
• ACT: did not take
• GPA: 3.8ish unweighted I think? not really sure
• Rank: 2/156
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 4s on history and chem

Subjective

• Essays: My favorite part of the application. I thought they were good but they're probably just average for MIT.
• Teacher Recs: The science one was really good (I read it) and my English teacher said she wrote lots of good stuff about me but I haven't actually seen it.
• Counselor Rec: no clue
• Supplementary Material: none
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none

Personal

• Location: Massachusetts
• High School Type: Public that sometimes but not often sends kids to top schools
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: female

Other

• Extracurriculars: The ones I listed on my app were dance class, tech crew for theater, vice president of NHS, pep band, and flute lessons
• Awards: Harvard Book Award, PSAT Commended Student. Nothing big
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'm not actually as upset as I thought I would be... onward to those regular applications

[Cattiebrie]

Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 2120 750M 730CR 640CW
• SAT II: 800 Math II 800 Biology 780 Chemistry
• ACT:
• GPA: 4.0 UW 4.6ish weighted
• Rank: 4
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):Chemistry 4, Modern European history 4, English lang/comp 4, Biology 5, US history 4, French language 3

Subjective

• Essays: I wrote about overcoming a difficulty in cross country through the use of research (sort of a connection to MIT I suppose) I didn't write any of the optional essays.
• Teacher Recs: pretty good but nothing extraordinary
• Counselor Rec: nothing special, doesn't really standout
• Supplementary Material:athlete, letter from MIT coach
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): recruited cross country/track athlete (letter from MIT coach), double legacy (W00T - I've known what IHTFP meant since I was 8), white female?

Personal

• Location:upper-middle class suburb (silicon valley)
• High School Type: medium sized public school. Does have a lot of diversity though
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: female

Other

• Extracurriculars: cross country/ track, marching band, soccer ref, red cross,
• Awards: academic awards - rien (none other than the usual college board awards) athletic awards - a few
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

I'm a good enough in cross country to run at a DI school, but MIT is better =P (this is probably what got me in)

[burnitblue]

Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 770 R, 740 M, 750 W (2260)
• SAT II: 740 Math 2, 690 Biology M
• ACT: 34 (35/35/33/33)
• GPA: 3.92 unweighted, school doesn’t weight
• Rank: top 10%
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB-4, APUSH-4, Eng Lit-5

Subjective

• Essays: very honest.
• Teacher Recs: very good
• Counselor Rec: generic, although it did say MIT was my first choice
• Supplementary Material: filled out all the optional essays (with the completely optional one about how much I wanted to go to MIT), also a recommendation from the staff of WTP
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I dropped out of college at 14? (long story) I don’t know. I hope it was my willingness to be honest that won them over.

Personal

• Location: WA
• High School Type: huge, mediocre public
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: female

Other

• Extracurriculars: theater, student government, newspaper, science olympiad
• Awards: lots of theater awards, nothing huge, national merit semifinalist, ap scholar
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I pretty much did “everything wrong” and got into MIT.

"And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you." - Suzan-Lori Parks

[ham]

Accepted


Stats:

• SAT: 680 CR, 740 M, 790 W = 2210 (best). Worst= 620 cr, 690m, 720 w
• SAT II: 770 M2, 760 M1, 710 Chem, 670 French (doesn't matter)
• ACT: 31 but didn't submit
• GPA: 91.24%
• Rank: school doesn't rank but top quintile
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): none

Subjective

• Essays: don't know how to describe, but I really think they were well done, represented me well, and showed my match for the school
• Teacher Recs: one was great about risk taking, one not read
• Counselor Rec: I'm sure it was great
• Supplementary Material: TWO extra recs (one was short) from a teacher and a comm service supervisor
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): absolutely nothing

Personal

• Location: Western MA
• High School Type: Private and selective
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender male

Other

• Extracurriculars: ECs- snowboarding, community service, working on my car, golfing, and an international conference
• Awards: nothing overly major, no intel, siemiens, etc.
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

it was all about the subjective, and my personality which I really worked HARD to convey. I definitely went all or nothing on this. I went out of the way to visit multiple times, contact admissions officers, and convey a genuine interest. MIT was undoubtedly my first choice. I am SO EXCITED! Thank you so much to everyone on this site for your support and the tremendous resource this has been. I genuinely wish the deferred the best of luck possible.

EDIT: **Sorry, I'm not sure how to format this... :/ and I'm too excited to figure it out right now! I may revise later to give a more complete picture of my application if possible.

[centimeters]

Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: 2290 (780 CR, 740 M, 770 W) only took it once
• SAT II: 720 mathI, 630 bio (yeah, i know.)
• ACT: none
• GPA: my school doesn't have GPA but I think I'd have around a 3.6 unweighted.
• Rank: also do not have.
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP English Lit 4, AP Comp Sci AB 4, AP US History 4, this year taking AP Stats, AP English Lang, AP Calc AB

Subjective

• Essays: I thought they were pretty good, maybe too much about school ( I did the community one though..) and I did all the optional ones and tried to make it clear that MIT is my first choice
• Teacher Recs:Pretty good I think.. definitely describe me as a person, not just as a student
• Counselor Rec:Should be pretty good but I haven't seen it.
• Supplementary Material: None, probably a mistake, didn't even send a resume beyond the 5 extracurriculars on the app, but I will now. Also probably should have made a flute recording
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None really, I should have contacted the field hockey coach but i'm not sure that I want to play in college.

Personal

• Location: Suburban NY
• High School Type: Private(secular), very selective
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Female

Other

• Extracurriculars: I have alot but I only listed 5 on the app because I thought they didn't want resumes... whatever I'll send the rest in now and I've actually done alot since I sent the app in so that's good I guess
• Awards: School Comp Sci award, National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'm pretty upset about it.

[AKiss20]

Accepted!!!
Stats:

• SAT: 2230 (720CR, 780M, 730W)
• SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 720 Spanish
• ACT:None
• GPA: 4.106/4.300
• Rank: 2/340
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
  5s on US Hist, Calc BC, Spanish Lang, English Lang/Comp
  6 on IB Comp Sci SL

Subjective

• Essays: Loved my main essay, it was very personal so it was really authentic. My two optional showed lighter aspects of my personality
• Teacher Recs: Humanities was excellent, not sure about my Physics one as I never read it, sent an extra from a professor at Rutgers who I interned with which was excellent
• Counselor Rec: Good I assume, never saw it
• Supplementary Material:Sent my extended essay which was based on the work I did at Rutgers, and a CD containing my IB Comp Sci Internal Assessment
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None

Personal

• Location: NJ
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: M

Other

• Extracurriculars: Aviation training since I was 9, string quartet, Habitat for humanity, virtual controlling on VATSIM network, webmaster experience and a few more
• Awards: NHS, NSHSS, Spanish Honors Society, AP Student with Honors, Commended Student
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I am so happy right now! Congrats to all my fellow classmates, and good luck for those who were deferred!