DD24 was admitted as an OOS aerospace engineering major! We are absolutely thrilled. 4.00+ GPA, 1st in class, 35 ACT superscore, four years of high school engineering, four year varsity athlete, student council senior officer, lots of APs.
No merit aid, so attending is doubtful unless tuition assistance awards come through. Right now, we’re just going to celebrate this incredible win! She was awarded the President’s Scholarship at Purdue, which makes attending there more financially possible (still a huge sticker price) but GT is her dream school. We’ll just see how the next few weeks shake out regarding any further aid information.
Daughter got in Biomedical Engineering OOS. #3 in class
1510 SAT
4.0 UW GPA/Weighted 5.476 GPA
Varsity Athlete
Several APs
Kumon Tutor
Lots of ECs
Leadership Roles
Research Internship last summer
Oh, she also worked in an astrophysics lab at our local University last summer studying black holes. Is a gymnastics coach and had, what I thought were, really good essays and letters.
DD24 accepted for biomedical engineering
OOS from NJ
4.58 WGPA
1480 SAT (780 math)
9 APs including calc bc and physics c
Volunteers at memorial Sloan Kettering
Mentorship at Pfizer
Volunteer junior firefighter
leadership roles at school
We were deferred, moving on as likely admit is miniscule and she has lots of great opportunities and waiting on a couple more.
This group was fun to engage with, best of luck to your kids (admitted and otherwise). As I learned from my first one 2 years ago, they will end up where they are meant to
People, if you were deferred and don’t want to be reconsidered PLEASE withdraw your application. It makes it a bit easier for us who want to be reconsidered and we will take what we can get, even if that increase in chance is miniscule. Thanks!
15% is the RD acceptance rate, which is a mix of acceptances of RD pool and EA defers. However some of the RD pool is not academically qualified and will be filtered out right away. And if you were defered your have basically been identified as academically qualified, so yes, it is probably around 20%, little more in state, and a little less OOS.
If you look at @ Beyou2022 's comment just upthread you’ll see the 2023 data for EA. Only 21% were deferred whereas 51% were denied. That tells me that deferred kids have a reasonable chance in RD. Not like some schools that defer “everyone” such that there’s no real info conveyed in the deferral.
As I mentioned upthread, DS20, who also ended up at MIT, was selected a GT Stamps semifinalist.
Since even compared to his brother’s stellar record DS24’s accomplishments are a whole 'nother level (three published peer-reviewed math papers is but one thing I can disclose without doxing him here), we were sort of curious if he’d make the Stamps semis cut as well (he didn’t apply anywhere else other than MIT, GT, and our state flagship).
In retrospect, he probably didn’t make a compelling enough case for GT in his “why us?” essay. Or perhaps there was nothing he could have said to convince them not to defer him and see if he comes back in RD. We will never know.
This just shows how precarious the admissions game is for any applicant. Had MIT not come through for him, his EA round results could have been pretty upsetting.
Congrats on your kid’s (and everyone else’s) acceptance, and good luck with the rest of the applications if they are still waiting for more results!
DS20 applied Caltech EA (and was admitted). Caltech went REA in '22, so DS24 couldn’t apply there at the same time with MIT, and he’s not applying anywhere RD, since MIT is his top choice.
