<p>Of course every college including MIT says the committee looks every applicant “holistically.” But let’s be realistic. They have over 10 thousands applicants, and the objective data they have is the SAT/ACT score and the GPA. They can’t put too much weight on the GPA since every high school is different. Unless every ADCOM member reads every essay and every rec letter, there would be a lot of bias. And how to weight ECs? Is the captain of a the football team from a class of 100 the same as class vice president in a class of 1000? Of course it is not the only factor, but in the end the overwhelming factor, is the SAT/ACT score.</p>
<p>i have a question… how much weight does having 3 published scientific papers have in MIT admissions?</p>
<p>I wonder if there is a difference in admission rates among CCers than among the overall population… just a random thought. : )</p>
<p>How much of an impact do AP exam scores have on an application compared with the SAT. For example, if someone only has in the low 700’s on SAT math, but has high math grades and a 5 on AP Calculus would the SAT score hurt the overall application?</p>
<p>just perform a significance test on the difference in the population proportions</p>
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<p>Because of self-selection, the CC admission rate is invariably higher.</p>
<p>^ I’m not convinced that’s true. Granted, the admission rate seems to be higher of CC members who post their results… but that’s for obvious reasons :)</p>
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Actually, each application is fully read and discussed by several readers – every essay and every recommendation letter is read.</p>
<p>The admissions statistics do not suggest that standardized test scores are the major factor in admissions, given performance above a certain threshold. This is also what the MIT admissions officers themselves have said over and over.</p>
<p>And re: post 346/347, I’m with silverturtle on this one. Certainly there’s a response bias among students who were admitted, but I would be willing to put my money on CC having a higher admit rate than the general pool in reality, as well. Not due to being on CC per se, but as a proxy for things like having enough money for a computer, being internet-literate, caring about elite college admissions, etc.</p>
<p>I disagree. I don’t see how being on CC means someone has enough money for a computer or is internet-literate. I would, though, venture to say that most US applicants have access to a computer/internet where they could access the MIT application site or CC. Not to mention that probably everyone who applies to MIT cares about elite college admissions. The only things that makes CC’ers special is that we’re crazy!</p>
<p>I actually think that CC admissions vs non CC are about the same… but that’s just my 2 cents. I don’t really know.</p>
<p>@selter01: Then please explain the ~70% UPenn ED acceptance rate for CC members. The acceptance rate will invariably be higher on CC.</p>
<p>^where did you get that stat???</p>
<p>The thing that makes CCers unlike normal applicants is that we’ve spent a lot of time making sure our applications are good, and we are very involved in the application process. This helps us have better applications since we seem to care more. </p>
<p>Also, the people posting in the MIT forum are probably the ones who really want to go to MIT so we’ve probably put a lot of time and effort into our applications and shown how much we love MIT which helps a bit in the application process from what I know. </p>
<p>I’d say the CC acceptance rate will be higher than the normal acceptance rate, but not by too much. After all, this is MIT we’re applying to.</p>
<p>Hey guys. I’m fresh here. Applied to MIT EA. Am nervous. For some reason, my MIT interview form “has not been processed”. Is this really bad? Lol. I’m Hispanic, will that help???</p>
<p>3 days lol. Too long.</p>
<p>Ok, I’m getting no responses, so I’ll post some numbers to get discussion back a-flowing again. Please note that I do not particularly enjoy doing this, but i am desperate…</p>
<p>ACT-34 (36 Math, 33 Science, 33 English, 32 Reading)
SATII’s - 800 Math IIc 800 Chem
Rank- 3rd, GPA- 4.0+
Extracurriculars and Activites- I don’t feel like typing them all out; don’t worry about these, I assure you that they are all in abundance and of discernable quality.
Essays- Pretty Fine, if I do say so myslef
Recs- VERY NICE!
Interview Form- No!!! “Was Never Processed”…
OMG
I’m Hispanic, by the way.</p>
<p>Ok, can someone tell me if this is just a glitch in the website?</p>
<p>Thank you, all hail Leibniz, and d/dx.</p>
<p>@HelpWithSchools – did you ever consider that people who were rejected were less likely to post?</p>
<p>Leibnitz, try doing what it tells you to do on the details page… It says if it doesn’t appear you should fill out some request or something… And then it should appear later. That’s what I did for mine</p>
<p>@selter01
I believe that CC members do have higher admittance rates, not because they are better than everyone else, but because they’ve been preparing for college since admittance into high school. For someone like me, this site was stumbled upon accidentally. Heck, I didn’t know what high school grades were for until the beginning of junior year, even though I have such a strong passion for learning and doing well. What disheartened me was finding out that there were students who didn’t know why they wanted to apply to all of these prestigious schools, but yet had all the stats for admittance into one. I really hate how people can be trained for this kind of thing. It’s something my math teacher had said as well–how kids these days go to cram school and prep school to get high grades for real school, and how this process overshadows the true kids who learn just for the fun of it and who have the highest potential. </p>
<p>@Leibnitz
What do you want us to tell you? What you’ve posted tells us absolutely nothing about who you are as a person.</p>
<p>@ QSCXQQ
I do indeed appreciate your concern for my post’s apparent shallowness, and your point is most duly taken. It was merely a tool, if not a cheap trick, to get more people involved in this thread. I am sorry if you found the layout pretentious, insincere, or provacative; my deepest apologies. My question is such: How to deal with this MIT interview form dilemma.
I would love to go into a soliloquy about me as a person, and I am sure that you would find it most interesting; yet observing from the fact that my username is named after one of the great giants of mathematics, and my closing comment always denotes a derivative, I think you get the general picture of possibly some quirkiness? For example, I like rapping. </p>
<p>@ XRCatD
I followed your instructions. Thank you!</p>
<p>d/dx.</p>
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<p>I hate related rates almost as much as waiting for EA decisions to come out. lol</p>