DS was rejected
rejected
Deferred turned into a rejected.
daughter rejected
So true
Son was waitlisted. Good luck MIT, not waiting until May for a “possibility” when we have an EA acceptance with money to Caltech.
I thought admissons for this round were final. They are still waitlisting Regular Action?
Yes, I guess so. That’s what the letter says.
Rejected here too after being deferred. Oh well.
Where are the decisions?
By final they mean there will be no appealing of decisions.
Rejected…I’m gonna go find a corner to cry for a bit and then get ready for other decisions, hopefully offers
Deferred from EA, now waitlisted… it’s not a nice feeling to wait 7 months for what will probably be a rejection. Oh well.
Accepted! In total disbelief right now. Pi Day was already my favorite holiday but it just got a whole lot better.
Congratulations!! MIT is the university my 15 year old wants to go. Any tips? What is your STATS?
Congratulations! DS got rejected. Pretty much everyone in his school got rejected
Daughter was accepted.
Among all the top colleges we visited, Chris Peterson @ MIT admissions gave the most impressive talk to the applicants and their families.
For the future applicants, the only school Daughter did not receive an interview was MIT. So no interview definitely does not equal to no acceptance by MIT.
Best luck to everyone.
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Daughter admitted after being deferred from EA! Given the very low admit rate for deferred applicants, we held little hope for her to get in. When we saw the result, we were surprised, and I hugged her and cried.
Posting her information for future applicants:
Asian American from a public school
GPA: >4.7 (weighted)
Class rank: #1 out of 490
SAT: 1560 (Math - 800; Reading - 760)
SAT Subject Tests: Math II - 800, Biology (M) - 780
AP Scores: 5s on English Lang, Calc BC, Physics C, World History, US History, Macro/Micro Econ, 4 on Biology
Interested major: Business (Product development)
Major awards: national finalist of an innovation competition, National AP Scholar, State Champions in DECA and FBLA Competitions, Governor’s School, etc.
Major activities: Founder/Director of a non-profit since 8th grade (running unique STEM education programs), Founder/Lead of an innovation project, Team Lead of a local volunteer organization, officers of several school clubs.
Strong recs from AP Eng teacher and AP Calc BC teacher.
She also got accepted by Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and UVA (Echols Scholar).
Accepted students: do you guys have a link in your MyMit portal to accept your offer of admission?
No, my daughter doesn’t have the link to accept.
@Michiedel For sure! I can give a bit of info. It might be a bit different that the average “MIT admit,” but thus far it’s worked out very well for me in terms of acceptances. I don’t have any hooks that I know of.
Some tips (and Stats):
Stats wise – 1590 SAT, 4.0/4.46 GPA, took the hardest courses my school offered and skipped classes when I could. I also spent a lot of time working with teachers on outside research to keep myself challenged, just for fun. I took a few community college courses.
EC-wise: – I started a few clubs at my school that are all very much in-line with my interests. I’m also nationally ranked in my sport.
Essays: – I think my essays were the main thing that got me in. I really tried to be myself and forget about the fact that there were other people reading them. I only had my mom and school counselor read them over, which I think was really important in terms of making sure that my voice came through. For one of the essays, I rewrote it just before submitting, since I felt like it wasn’t true to me (and thus, no one besides me and the AO has ever read it!).
I shared some things in my MIT essays that I had never talked about with any of my teachers or friends before. A few were about topics that are very taboo/stigmatized, so I wasn’t sure if it would fly with the office. But I talked in it about how the taboo affected my own experiences, and how I used that to start a program that helps others in similar situations.
Other things/tips:
–Throughout HS, I really tried not to focus on college and I just took the courses that I wanted to. My extracurriculars are the same. I compete in a sport which is a huge time commitment for me, and I started clubs that I thought were needed at the school, but also because I knew that I would have fun doing it.
I never competed in anything academic. I knew it might hurt me when I applied to college, but it just didn’t feel right as there were other things that I preferred to focus my energy on. I would even go so far to say that I actively rejected the idea of doing things “just for college.” I keep myself busy and take challenging courses because that’s how I stay happy, but I never felt too overwhelmed because I was enjoying everything.
Ultimately, I didn’t even think that I would apply to MIT until I visited last year. My parents are very hands-off and would have been happy if I went to community college or MIT – they really don’t have a preference! Because of this, I had control over my apps (I’ve always been pretty driven, so this works well for me). I chose which activities to include, which activities/classes I wanted to take, and I was also in charge of scheduling visits and writing my essays on-time. This wouldn’t work for everyone, but for me this was very important because it meant that I had the freedom to explore, ask questions, and write my apps without worrying about what other people would think.
I also never had any pressure to do things for college, so I would just tell your DS/DD to do what makes them happy. Yes, they do need to excel in school and in their passions, but if they do what they truly love, that should be far easier to do than if they are trying to excel in a class or activity that they don’t actually enjoy.
There’s no secret formula to getting into MIT or any T20 school – it’s tough for everyone. Sometimes the dice rolls your way, sometimes it doesn’t. But at the end of the day, you should be able to look back on HS and feel proud of what you did. And I really do believe that if you enjoy HS and the activities that you do, and if you write about them with honesty, vulnerability, and humility, the colleges will sense that in your app.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have questions.
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