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As I mentioned above, if it were me, I would update as soon as possible. Application reading has already begun, so updates which will be seen by all readers must be sent in soon. If he waits for the midyear report, this will likely be seen by all or most readers as well, but will not be seen in the first read of the application.</p>
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Students whose high schools don’t rank are not included in that statistic. </p>
<p>It’s certainly not that students who aren’t in the top 20% of ranked high schools are automatically rejected at MIT. It’s that most students who apply to MIT and who aren’t in the top 20% of their high school classes don’t present compelling applications overall.</p>
<p>Given the holistic way MIT evaluates applications, there’s rarely one thing that will get an applicant rejected.</p>