<p>Molli - we just got back from France and at many stores they were selling “sweaters” for glass vases! Think how stress free it would be to only have to knit in little circles!</p>
<p>I was also wondering if MIT compares applicants from the same school if they both apply to MIT.</p>
<p>No, we don’t. At least, not in the sense of ‘hrm, well, two kids are applying from X school, and we can only take one, so you’re in, and you’re out.’</p>
<p>For the supplementary documents, is there a preference whether they are faxed or mailed? The cover sheet seems to suggest that mailing is only if faxing is unavailable.</p>
<p>we much prefer faxing</p>
<p>MITChris, I was also wondering about post 421. I did not see a place to put any other subject tests, but if I am looking at a social science, I think it would be appropriate.</p>
<p>But presumably you can just have COllege Board send additional subject tests. That is what we did. As my son goes to a school that does not give grades or rank, we were hoping to use subject test scores to show mastery of material.</p>
<p>Suppose I have an abstract of my research work but it’s really too long to fit into the Optional section of Part 2 of the application, is it okay if I send it in as a supplementary document? Or should I just make it much more concise and paste it in the Optional section?</p>
<p>^ You should send it as a supplementary document regardless.</p>
<p>So the additional information section- there’s this essay I wrote that I think really reflects a big part of me but its almost 600 words… I hate to force the app readers to read all 600 when theyre busy with other apps… but the essay means a lot to me. what to do, what to do?</p>
<p>I have a question about research. I’ve done my own research at home without a lab or mentor. Is this ok to include in the additional info section? And if so, what should I talk about? Should I give the abstract or should I just talk about what I did and what came of it?</p>
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<li><p>you are all welcome to send social science SAT IIs </p></li>
<li><p>bananaboat, use your judgment </p></li>
<li><p>tmanneopen: yep that’s fine, abstract is fine</p></li>
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<p>@bannanaboat - I forget, is there a word limit in that section?</p>
<p>@tmanneopen - Your own reproduction explained in your words seems reasonable for that section to me, especially if it’s being at home experimenting. If it’s really deep research that would make a good abstract, I might send an abstract instead.</p>
<p>I’m really happy there’s a spot on the app for a website, and I have one online currently, and plan to touch it up before submitting in RD. </p>
<p>but, I’ve got some questions regarding this
- What kind of browser are you guys looking at this in?(don’t say IE ಠ_ಠ)
- How long (approx) do you have to peruse the site?
-I ask this because I’ve got tons of personal projects(robotics, programming etc.) that I document on the site, and I’m sure you don’t have time to look through them all</p>
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<li>Would you prefer:
-an overview page with info on several of the most significant projects
[this would be much faster to look through, but potentially less interesting or revealing in terms of depth and/or complexity]
or
-an index page(ordered by significance) linking to detailed descriptions and documentation of everything.
[This would give you an idea of what projects I like working on, but would require multiple click-throughs to really get much of an idea about each project]</li>
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<p>I’ll have complete pages for everything, but I’m just wondering which kind of page you would like to land on, index or overview?</p>
<p>finally, how many prospectives submit sites/blogs? and how much do you consider this in the application?</p>
<p>thanks, and I apologize if anyone has asked this previously, I’m afraid I didn’t look through all 28 pages very carefully…</p>
<p>Thanks ! :)</p>
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<p>I’m making the “overview page”, but each of the little descriptions link to the fully detailed page, so if they are interested, they can look into it further. I guess that’s the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>On my online application my essay is fine but on the PDF preview a stray character appears in the middle of my essay which does not go away. Do the admissions folks read the PDF preview, or just the online application? I think it is a bug in the preview printing software.</p>
<p>I submitted my application a few days ago and saw that my paragraphs weren’t indented and thought that it was something that MIT wanted. However, while browsing around teh forum I saw a thread that said that it was possible to indent. Is it ok if none of my paragraphs are indented or should I do something about it?</p>
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The preview reflects how the application will appear to the readers.</p>
<p>Any chance it’s just something carried in from your word-processing software? What if you paste the essay through a plain-text reader before putting it into the application?</p>
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It’s absolutely fine if your paragraphs aren’t indented.</p>
<p>is the optional essay supposed to be 200-250 words like the others?</p>
<p>also, should we put a blank line between paragraphs for our essays since we can’t indent?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>