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Hi there! My daughter is considering applying to MIT and we were looking over the supplemental questions last night. Most are self explanatory. But would love input/advice on how to answer this one: While some reach their goals following well-trodden paths, others blaze their own trails achieving the unexpected. In what ways have you done something different than what was expected in your educational journey?
Want to make sure we answer the question well. What are they really asking? Academic focused achievements? Choice of courses? Inside/outside of classroom? We aren’t working with a college counselor and the school counselor at her large public high school is swamped. Any help translating the question would be welcome thanks!
My UW is 4.0 and I am still waiting for my August SAT (didn’t take SAT before).
I am a female and want to study physics there.
My question is: There is a section in their application that asks about employment status of each of the parents. When I selected my mom as unemployed, the questions about the job title and employer still appeared. I wonder, is that a bug in their system? Or should I just put N/A in those fields? I contacted their office of admissions but didn’t hear back.
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Hello!
I am in the process of writing those essays and honestly I love their topics! I was also confused by this topic you described, but I figured out that it makes most sense that they look not for specifically something like choice of courses, but rather the whole educational journey. And you may choose whatever you feel best from your list.
I didn’t write this prompt yet, but a couple ideas were when I designed a protocol and my PI was very skeptical about it, but finally it worked in the best way possible. This is not related to school, rather to the extracurricular education. So I think your daughter better think about something in her education that is meaningful to her.
I know, this all may sound a little like empty words as you probably know all of this. But anyway I hope this helped at least somehow.
By the way, do you think it is a good idea to use the “additional information” section?
We are in the same bowl with your daughter, so good luck to her!
Thanks! Good luck to you too! I think you’re right - MIT likes critical thinking so is looking for how you’ve done that outside the conventional classroom. What I’ve been told is that unless you have something super compelling, don’t use the additional information section bc admissions officers are swamped and don’t want to read extra stuff that doesn’t add heft. On the other hand for example, if you supported your family working an almost full time job while juggling school, or were a caregiver for someone, or anything else that puts demands on your time, I think it’s totally worthwhile! Just my opinion. 
Hello everyone! I am filling the research supplement for MIT. Is the research mentor recommendation letter mandatory? My research project was mentored by a PhD student in a summer program in a university. I am not able to reach him to get a recommendation letter.
Does anyone know when MIT will release EA decisions? I heard that it might be on December 14th, but I haven’t seen anything on the admissions website about it.
“Mid december” last historically been December 12-16; id reccomend 15th to check (or yk , yolo, and keep checking like me )
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The early action decisions come out on December 17th at 6:28 pm ET!
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It’s going to be loooong!
my son was deferred 
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Deferred
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60% Deferred 
Good luck to your kiddos on the rest of the apps!
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I got deferred as well
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My S25 was deferred too!
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Wishing your kiddos the very best with the deferrals!
My daughter was admitted. I’d really like to connect with some other MIT parents if anyone knows of groups. I found one 2029 parent group on FB but it seemed shady – they wanted full legal name and email addresses for parent and kid.
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There is a MIT parent facebook group for all years try searching for that! Congrats!
Congratulations! which major did she apply to?
Thank you! She wants to major in physics.