For those of you who have already contacted your MIT ECs: when are your interviews? I don’t want to email on the last possible day, but I’m also not even close to being mentally ready for an interview anytime soon.
My interview is October 1st.
@emtfxc Have you tried calling or resending the e-mail? Your EC might be busy if you’ve already done both of those, so that’s when you should contact interview@mit.edu
@glasshours I would also contact him/her soon. You could end up waiting so long that the EC won’t have an opening. They have jobs and lives too.
@XoXdreamerXoX - Holy, that’s early. Yeah, probably going to contact him as soon I submit my early app for another school.
I know exactly what I’m passionate about and why I wish to go to MIT. Probably helps somewhat settle my nerves.
Just took my senior portrait! The only non crooked smile (I sustained nerve damage to one side of my mouth sophomore year) picture I chose for the yearbook 
…government is boring me half to death. So much work that isn’t interesting me. I preferred APUSH.
@kuriosmind i wouldn’t say half the regular applicants aren’t qualified. Has there ever been any proof, despite this theory on CC?
From my experience, which may not count for much, many Ivy unqualified applicants would be ashamed to try. I won’t say whether this is a good or bad thing.
My point is, I have never seen anything to support the statement that a large percentage of Harvard applicants are not qualified.
The 8% acceptance for SCEA is, at least, significantly less daunting than 5%
@Woandering I read somewhere on CC that the yale admissions counsellor said 60%-80% of applicants are qualified to do the work, but that doesn’t mean they are qualified to do well. Harvard probably gets more of those "what if"s than any other college because their supplemental application is optional.
@XoXdreamerXoX @emtfxc @glasshours There are so many of us applying to MIT early action! Are you guys applying to any other university early?
@kuriosmind UChicago.
@kuriosmind - I’m not applying to MIT early, haha. Actually on the fence about applying at all. But good luck to all of you who are! 
@glasshours I’m actually not sure if I want to apply to MIT either! But I was already assigned an interviewer so I kinda felt pressured to finish my application. What other schools are you looking at?
Isn’t it a waste of $75 to apply I you don’t really wish to attend MIT?
Don’t mean for this to come off as rude or anything. In case someone finds it offensively worded.
@kuriosmind - Did you contact your interviewer already? A few other lesser-known STEM-inclined schools, some Ivies, a few in California, and two state schools. I think my decision will ultimately hinge on whether or not I have time to assemble a Maker Portfolio before the January deadline.
@XoXdreamerXoX - Attending MIT (or getting in at all) would be a dream. I’m much more excited about some of my other reaches, but that doesn’t mean I dislike/don’t want to attend MIT.
@glasshours No I have not. The deadline is October 20th so I have some time to think about it. Good luck for those schools! I think a portfolio is definitely worth it because it shows your creative side and might give you a boost.
@XoXdreamerXoX None taken. Of course being able to attend MIT would be amazing. I simply made an account on the mymit website to check out the application. I have yet to apply and if I do not end up applying, it isn’t because I don’t really wish to attend MIT, but because I feel that my qualifications aren’t up to par with the other students and would prefer to not take up the committee’s time. Best of luck to you for MIT tho!
Staying up until 2 a.m. every day from the amount of homework I get doesn’t feel okay.
@XoXdreamerXoX
All those people who told us senior year was fun lied
@LordBendtner I knew it’d be hard but…this seems a bit excessive.
Finally got my physics letter jacket.