Friend from school accepted with a 2220 and a 3.9 UW

Jimmy797
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:41:54 +0000

^We have 2 admissions officers on here if I’m correct, one being MITChris, and there’s also molliebatmit (not an ad. officer but very helpful nonetheless.) Perhaps someone would be kind enough to join in.
I believe it’s a mix of the 2, though each has to have some qualities of the other. (ambitious but has to have high grades, has perfect grades but has to have a personality too, one that fits MIT based on how the ad. officers perceive it.)

By the way, I was the one who said a 660 amounts to a 750.
I’m sure you know that the background a person grows up in affects his qualifications. I probably would’ve had a better grade in English had I grown up in the US. That’s not an excuse, by the way, merely an observation. I’m working on improving the CR score.