International undergraduate Students RD results 2014

darks0ulz · March 14, 2010, 2:11pm

Got a rejection.

Canadian here with 2230, 780 Chem and 800 Math II.

MrPropapanda · March 14, 2010, 2:12pm

Oh my. How is that even possible?

edoardo · March 14, 2010, 2:13pm

Post your complete stats, they would be useful, thanks.

MrPropapanda · March 14, 2010, 2:14pm

New thread for this.

dawncoming · March 14, 2010, 2:15pm

@edoardo

well I have posted my stats in the Official RD result thread. I think you guys post stats there will be better

darks0ulz · March 14, 2010, 2:22pm

I’ll post my stats (here and there or wherever) later tonight when I get home.

Karottu · March 14, 2010, 2:28pm

Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT:2210 (680C, 730W, 800M)
[]SAT II:740 MII, 750 Phy, 760 Bio M
[]ACT:-
[]GPA:-
[]Rank:top decile (school does not rank)
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays:not very good, apparently
[]Teacher Recs:good
[]Counselor Rec:good
[]Supplementary Material:Research work
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):-
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location:India
[]High School Type:Private
[]Ethnicity:Indian
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars:Leadership, Research, Soccer
[]Awards:nothing significant
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: MIT was one of my top preferences. Hope other decisions are positive.[/ul]

Blitzer · March 14, 2010, 2:51pm

Rejected

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2240, 760CR/750M/730W
[]SAT II: 760 Physics, 800MII
[]ACT:
[]GPA: 95%
[]Rank: 2/~400
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Not offered at my school
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: All amazing except for one
[]Teacher Recs: Both exceptional
[]Counselor Rec: Okay, I don’t speak with my counselor much
[]Supplementary Material:
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Kingston, Canada
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: football, tutoring, minor math contests, work all the time
[]Awards: Nothing significant
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Off to Waterloo I go[/ul]

Sci-Fry · March 14, 2010, 3:10pm

Rejected

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2240
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics
[]ACT:
[]GPA: 4.0
[]Rank: 1/70
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Full IB Diploma (45 predicted)[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I thought they were pretty good, but apparently not good enough
[]Recs: Probably decent
[]Supplementary Material: Abstract for French research paper
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Zilch[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Europe (international student)
[]High School Type: Private
[]Ethnicity: Indian
[]Gender: Male[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: President of Student Council, Leader of charity group (raised 50,000 euros), started an internet business, house prefect, and a bunch of other stuff.
[]Awards: Lots of school awards, few math awards.
[]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Probably because the acceptance rate for internationals is so low.
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: No, I feel like doing anything but bragging. Seeing how many incredible people got rejected is both humbling and frustrating. The US admissions process is so ambiguous and uncertain. Oh well, I’ve still got Oxford in the UK![/ul]

darxsys · March 14, 2010, 3:12pm

Rejected

Stats:

<pre><code>* SAT: TOEFl 100

SAT II: 730 Physics, 670 Math II
ACT: -
GPA: don’t have
Rank: don’t have
Essays: ok, nothing special
Recs: pretty good
Supplementary Material: -
Summer Activities: some stuff, nothing special
Location: Croatia
High School Type: Semi private
Ethnicity: White
Gender:
</code></pre>

Male

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: -

Awards:-
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
</code></pre>

MimuTH · March 14, 2010, 3:43pm

a flat out rejection

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2200
[]SAT II: MathII 800 Phy800 (damn) Lit 760
[]ACT:
[]GPA: senior year-low as i had a messed up quarter
[]Rank:low as to 10% in the damn school
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 130-145 (damit) Calc 5

[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: crammed
[]Teacher Recs: none of them know me well i believe
[]Counselor Rec:dunno
[]Supplementary Material: too busy to send
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/li]
[/ul]Personal[ul]

[]Location: Canada
[]High School Type: Pub
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender F

[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: 1ball game; lots of self study, so much as i call school ‘extra’
[]Awards: physics in grade 10 in another continent; minor math stuff; city finalist in sports
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] maybe I should have applied as a home-schooler!!! now i see way too much potential in me… too bad I did not even try to hang out with people of my age[/li]so it all came back to me… Should i get another year off to somewhere exotic??

MrPropapanda · March 14, 2010, 3:46pm

rejected. period.

babo90 · March 14, 2010, 5:19pm

size=+1][ color=green][ b]Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: ( I think MIT didn’t consider it)
[ *]SAT II:math II 800 physics 760
[ *]ACT:n/a
[ *]GPA:4.0
[ *]Rank:1
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: I think they are not bad
[ *]Teacher Recs: I believe both of them are very good
[ *]Counselor Rec: of course good
[ *]Supplementary Material: National Mathematical Organization Committee recommendation
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):Bronze medal, IMO
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: Mongolia
[ *]High School Type: public
[ *]Ethnicity:Mongolian, Asian
[ *]Gender Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars:Student government, table tennis, math and physics, community service
[ *]Awards:Bronze medal, IMO, gold medals National Math olympiad, gold medal National Physics Olympiad
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: [ /list]

the_pakalypse · March 14, 2010, 11:02pm

I hope this helps future Canadian applicants…
Rejected

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2230 - Math 740 - CR 740 - Writing - 750
[]SAT II: Math Lvl 2 760 - Bio E 780 - Literature 730
[]ACT: -
[]GPA: 93%(combining all courses from grade 9-12)
[]Rank: School doesn’t rank but above 10% for sure
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I was myself, definitely creative. I’d say above average essays.
[]Teacher Recs: One was exceptional(best student in 30 years of teaching), the other was pretty good.
[]Counselor Rec: Good
[]Supplementary Material: Sent additional essay
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Toronto, Canada
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: South Asian
[]Gender M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: president/founder of youth in action club which is trying to build a school in sri lanka(raised 7000$+ so far)(2 years), president/co-founder of DECA(4 years), vice-president of muslim student association(4 years)
[]Awards: Small community awards
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] To all the future applications who lurk these pages, please make sure that you really want to BE at MIT. A few months after submitting my MIT apps, I realized I had little to no mention for my love of science/technology in any of my essays. That is when I realized perhaps MIT wasn’t that amazing of a fit for me. I do like science/technology, but it is not something I’d like to pursue. I am a humanities student who likes science, not a science student who likes humanities. Also, PLEASE find your voice in your essays. We’ll see if my stats/essays are good enough for the other schools in 2 weeks.

KJ2222 · March 15, 2010, 5:40am

[ color=red]Rejected[/color]
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2320
[]SAT II: Math 2: 800, Chemistry: 800, Physics: 800
[]TOEFL:
[]ACT:
[]GPA: CBSE
[]Rank: top 1% (top 3 in class)
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[]Essays: good in my opinion
[]Teacher Recs: should be good
[]Counselor Rec: OK i guess
[]Supplementary Material:
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I wish!
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: India
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Indian
[]Gender : Male

[]Extracurriculars: rugby (state player), chess (state level), equestrian (national level), student council president, public speaking, etc.
[]Awards: nothing extra ordinary
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Wish more international students were accepted. But it’s not the end of the world. Plenty more to come in 2 weeks’ time!

Ukrgirlie · March 15, 2010, 6:23am

Hey guys, for those who got rejected from MIT but still have other schools to hear from, this might cheer you up a little bit
[In</a> an (Ivy) League of His Own - allDAY - msnbc.com](<a href=“http://allday.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1152344.aspx]In”>http://allday.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/18/1152344.aspx)

edoardo · March 15, 2010, 6:24am

@KJ2222: your stats are good…
I’m seeing that there are a lot of international applicants that are qualified and have strong EC’s but they didn’t get in… What kind of people… does MIT want?

Maybe if you aren’t an IMO finalist or IPHO…you don’t have chances.

Themust · March 15, 2010, 7:21am

Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[]SAT: CR 540, 560; Math 700, 760; Writing 600, 640; Composite 1960
[]SAT II: Biology M 700, Chemistry 780, Math II 670, 780, Chinese with Listening 730
[]TOEFL: 111
[]GPA: 4.06
[]Rank: 1/49
[]AP: Biology 5, Chemistry 5, Macroeconomics 5, Microeconomics 5
[]Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP Physics B, AP Chinese Language & Culture, AP English Literature & Composition, Intro to Robotics, Wind Ensemble, Chamber Music Performance, Thai 12
[] Major Awards: School’s Annual Knowledge Bowl (2nd, 4th, 3rd, 1st last year), English Forensics Competition (duet performance/skit winner), Chinese Impromptu Essay Competition (1st, 2nd, and TBA), English Outstanding Award, Math Outstanding Award, Science Outstanding Award, Upper School Science Fair winner every year that joined (Biology and Chemistry).

*All activities are at school though.

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Student Council (Clothes Drive Donation committee head, End-of-the-year Concert committee head, Talent Show committee head); Jazz Band (Lead Alto Saxophonist for three years and founding member); Environmental Club (vice-President and President); Varsity Soccer (first squad defender); Golf (play at leisure times and took a golf course at Stanford one summer)
[]Teacher Recs: Never read them but really positive that they are the best they can be
[]Counselor Rec: The best recommendation in our class (according to him)
[]Summer Activities: attended UPenn’s Physics Academy and Stanford’s HSSC (Math, Computer Science, and Golf classes: GPA 4.00)
[li]Essays: All great (very personal and spent a lot of time with it)[/li]
[/ul]Others:[ul]
[]Country: Thailand
[]High School Type: Private but very small
[]Ethnicity: Thai
[]Gender: Male
[li]Hooks: Being Thai and worldly. Travels a lot. Making the best out of what is given at such a small school. Ambitious and hardworking (clearly seen in ECs and essays). Outstanding recommendation letters.[/li]
[li]General Comments:[/ul] [/li]Already expected a rejection. Even though I got rejected, I’m still a huge fan of MIT and will probably apply there as a graduate student. I totally understand the competitiveness of this pool and do not question their decision whatsoever.

KJ2222 · March 15, 2010, 10:16am

@edoardo: thanks but face value stats aren’t good enough is what I’ve realised. In retrospect I think my essays didn’t quite display passion. Besides my intended major was economics and in my opinion MIT favours applicants with a passion for science, which I obviously could not show.

edoardo · March 15, 2010, 12:37pm

MIT sucks, Many International applicants are more qulified than USA students, but they are rejected.

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