<p>Does the MIT application ask how many times a student has taken the ACT?</p>
<p>No, MIT allows score choice, so a student can send only those test scores that he or she prefers – somebody could take the ACT a hundred times and only submit the best score.</p>
<p>I am an international applicant from India.My school does not offer AP courses but the difficulty of my courses are the same ,if not greater than the AP courses.Is it necessary for me to take them separately because frankly speaking they are extremely expensive…:p</p>
<p>No, you don’t need to take AP courses specifically, as long as your courseload is challenging.</p>
<p>I know there’s a bit of flexibility on transcripts and school forms but if one of my teachers is using ApplyWithUs to submit their recommendation, will it be able to come in late? In other words, will the ApplyWithUs website completely close on January 1st? I’ve got my other recommendation in but this one isn’t in because the teacher who’s completing it hasn’t been feeling well lately but she’s the best candidate for my recommendation.</p>
<p>^^ I have the same question as the poster above me. </p>
<p>As far as I know, it’s possible for teachers to submit late (which has always been possible in the past). I’m not sure how it works with the ApplyWithUs website, but it’s my assumption that teachers will either be able to submit late through the site, or else on paper via snail mail. MIT’s policy has always been not to penalize students if teachers don’t have their ducks in a row.</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone would mind looking at a few of my essays for the questions?</p>
<p>What kind of specifications are allowed in the PDF for the maker’s portfolio? Should this be a detailed report or just small descriptions of what the project is?</p>
<p>@jiam22 I just put in some technical reports that would require background knowledge but I was careful to explain projects in the descriptions in a simple way. They probably wouldn’t find it cool to just go off in a land of acronyms with no help. They’re smart, but they probably don’t know about what you do in particular. </p>
<p>Give them the ‘oh cool, I get why this is rad’ moment.</p>
<p>For the Research Supplement, I am a little confused as to the scope of these 3 questions: brief description of research, summarize contributions, and what did you learn about the research process. Should I provide in-depth answers (like something I’d submit to Siemens) or just treat them like short answers (1 or 2 sentences)? </p>
<p>For the trait essay, can it be a variety of traits or does it have to be only one trait?</p>
<p>“What attribute of your personality are you most proud of, and how has it impacted your life so far? This could be your creativity, effective
leadership, sense of humor, integrity, or anything else you’d like to tell us about.” I’m guessing one because that language isn’t plural.</p>
<p>Hey, I just wrote short paragraphs.</p>
<p>I’m almost done with my application but I’m interested in compiling a Maker portfolio. Am I too late to come up with a quality one? Do I even have enough content for a good portfolio? I wanted to showcase some of my origami designs but they aren’t anything exceptional (not a Lang or Montroll).</p>
<p>Each question also has a character limit of 1,500. Are we expected to hit that limit?</p>
<p>And now we enter the part of the admissions season that might be called “Early Lessons in Grantsmanship”: If you want to be a STEM professional, you’re going to be applying for stuff for the rest of your life, so you might as well get good at bending the rules to your benefit now.</p>
<p>General rules:
- Make it as brief as possible, but no briefer than that
- Anything that fits within the box of the prompt works – don’t be afraid to be a little creative
- Nobody knows your stuff like you do, so make sure you a) explain what you’re talking about, but b) don’t patronize
- Thoreau had it exactly right: Simplify, simplify.</p>
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I would do something in the middle – relatively short answers, targeted toward an interested person with technical knowledge, but who might not be familiar with your exact subfield. But it’s really up to you, and you should write the answers in the way that best communicates your project. Maybe run your answers by a science- or engineering-interested friend or neighbor to see if they’re on point?</p>
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The secret to admissions essays is that there’s no “have to”. If you can fit more than one trait in that essay, and you think it’s the most effective way to communicate, write about more than one, by all means. Given that it’s a short essay, most people probably find it most straightforward to write about only one trait, but that doesn’t mean you have to.</p>
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Definitely not questions I can answer. :)</p>
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Nope, just expected not to go over it. If you can answer the question effectively in <<1500 words, more power to you! I’m always pro-brevity, personally.</p>
Oh god I missed the deadline for part 2 is there anything I can do??
My son could not submit his Part II tonight due to problems with the MIT website. He e-mailed admissions and received a reply that the server gets over-loaded at this time every year. The e-mail says MIT will give applicants a couple of days to submit the remaining materials. 'Hope that helps you sleep better!
I know that MIT requires that the SAT fee waiver be signed by a counselor or school official, but I didn’t realize this until winter break, at which point it was too late to get a signature from my counselor. So I sent in my fee waiver without a signature. Do I have to have my counselor email admissions?
According to you what is the meaning of academically qualified?
And more specific about SAT scores, this comment from Chris “(…) they just need to be good enough where they predict success at MIT. if you’re scoring in the 700s on each section you’re fine. if you’re in the 600s, we’ll look at everything real closely to get a good sense with our statistical models. if you’re in the 500s, data suggest that MIT is not the best match for you.” is still true?
Thanks a lot!