<p>Interview: I think that my interview had a very important impact in the overall application process. It brought out my best intellectual and personal qualities. My interviewer was very straightforward but he was awfully nice and it was a sort of two-way street. He told me what he thought of MIT before, what he thinks of it now, how it has evolved over the last 30 years into arguably the finest math and science school in the world. Overall I benefited from the interview because it cleared up the doubt of why I was applying to MIT. I realized that there was more to that three letter acronym than meets the eye. I was also able to “excuse” myself for my less-than-stellar SAT scores while at the same time I pointed out qualities that I missed in my application such as my multilingual skills and my love of the humanities and not just the sciences. It was an overall magnificent experience and it made applying to MIT a very fun and enriching experience.</p>
<p>Application Submitted: ~Dec. 14th-15th. Now I missed the Dec. 10th deadline because I frankly did not know about it but I e-mailed MIT and then about 1 week after I got a call from my interviewer. He very willingly agreed to give me an interview without any reproach for having missed the deadline.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (RD)</p>