MIT - EA, Worth it? What are my chances?

wildchartermage
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:19:52 +0000

hey,

I noticed that you’re hearing impaired as well I am (and Chinese-American too!!–> fail). Do you wear Cochlear Implant as I do or hearing aid/something else? I would probably suggest you write an essay partly about this as I did for my college essays.

From your stats and resume, etc, it would seem that you’re “better qualified” than I am and I felt impressed with your stats/resume, because what I had seems to pale in comparison to yours. I had NO AWARDS at all except National Merit Commended and AP Scholar with only 3 APs taken in my junior year (5 on Calc AB, 4 on USH and Physics B) and 2160 SAT 1 (M: 760 CR: 720 W: 680) and 800 on Math 2, 760 Physics, 750 USH. The few thing that probably stood out were my letter of recommendations about my personality,and the research project I had co-authored a paper with a MIT professor last summer in a Harvard-MIT Otolarynoglogy Lab. But you got LOADS more! (but don’t forget to “show your passion” in your apps)

But I was admitted early action, to my great surprise and happiness. MIT was pretty much my top choice too. I feel that MIT admitted me based on my driven, striving, determined, etc personality and the letter of rec from the MIT professor I worked with instead of looking so hard at my stats/resume since I was pretty much rejected and waitlisted at all of other top schools in US except for Wellesley.

So, I would say go ahead and apply early action, but hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Good luck and it’ll be cool to have you join us next year!! :)