A question regarding "Holistic" admissions and "Perfect Scores"

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<p>I somehow came across this blog post: [The</a> Value of Creativity | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the_value_of_creativity]The”>The Value of Creativity | MIT Admissions)</p>

<p>Any ides on that? I agree with most of the points made except a few that I think do not work for the international pool. In fact, it opposes the tag “holistic admissions”.</p>

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Too often, our society has imposed upon us ideals and molds - to get into MIT, you must have had done science competitions

Isn’t that actually true?? Is that a mold the society has imposed upon us?</p>

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You don’t need to read other people’s applications to know how to apply to college.

Please tell me that this line is not for MIT applicants.</p>

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First, I feel like the college application is an intimate extension of yourself - your life story presented to the college admission officers. Thus, you already have all the tools that you need to tell your story, because who knows yourself better than…yourself? What is the point of external influences? I feel like they are only swaying you away from who you truly are and your own unique ideas.</p>

<p>If you have ideas - then let them flow forth. Tell a story about your first love. Paint a picture of your innermost passions. Weave a tapestry of your wildest dreams.

Who listens to my story, my passions, my dreams? MIT wants those who already have done something super great. They don’t care about those who were unable to do that. Oh yeah, they take students who have lived shelterless on the worst slums of the world. I don’t oppose taking such students, but what about the students who are a part of lower-middle class family? They don’t live in slums but they don’t have any resources too.</p>

<p>Anyways I am not a MIT hater. Albeit I love MIT a lot. It’s just that I couldn’t digest the point that MIT isn’t making their international admissions clear to the students. Over and over, it has become like each country has certain requirements (not quotas). for example, Indian students MUST be highly accomplished like IMO medalists, Finalists of big international science fairs.</p>