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No, you sent the scores before the deadline, as required. MIT will take a few weeks to get everybody’s application materials together before reading season begins, so it’s not a problem if your scores take a few days or weeks to arrive. Remember that even November test scores can be submitted for EA – October scores sent on October 31 are totally fine.</p>
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Of course not.</p>
<p>On a MIT email I received:</p>
<p>“Documents sent through the ApplyWithUs site and Naviance are not posted directly to your MyMIT account. All materials require processing. Please allow five business days for processing at this busy time.”</p>
<p>My school report has already been uploaded from Naviance to MIT more than 5 business days ago. But MyMIT still shows it’s not received. When is a good time to ask admissions about whether a particular document has been received or not? After 10, 15 business days? (This IS EA, the whole cycle is just a little more a month) Is it a general rule of thumb not to ask and let them come to you if a document is missing? I understand similar question has just been asked a few rows above, but i just want to make absolute sure about the course of actions regarding missing documents. </p>
<p>No, you shouldn’t contact them yet. In the past, it’s typically taken the admissions office two to three weeks to process all pieces of all applications (although hopefully it will be faster this year with the switch to online LORs), even for the six-week EA cycle. They’ll contact you if there’s a piece of your application missing when they’re done processing everything, and you’ll have the opportunity to re-submit anything that’s missing. It’s overwhelmingly likely that your school report is at MIT safe and sound, it just hasn’t been processed yet.</p>
<p>Do the admissions officers review the actual, complete maker’s portfolio in addition to the engineering board?</p>
<p>I suspect that the admissions committee only sees a summary of the portfolio from the engineering board (as they would for a music or arts portfolio, as I understand it), but I don’t know for certain.</p>
<p>If we receive awards after the EA deadline, is there anyway to update our application to reflect that?</p>
<p>Yes, absolutely, just email the admissions office, or send a paper note, and ask that the information be added to your file.</p>
<p>Thank you! What kind of information will I have to include in my email? is my myMIT ID enough?</p>
<p>I would include your full name and your MyMIT ID – you just need to provide enough information to be sure they can match it to your application.</p>
<p>Are the awards a big part of the application? Is it fine if you only have a couple school or regional awards and not have any national awards? Do you take in account if you live in a small town?</p>
<p>It’s not a problem – most people who are accepted don’t have big national awards – but of course national awards do help. MIT will always take context into account when thinking about your application.</p>
<p>Hi! I’m an international applicant and I was wondering, do you recommend sending an ACT score of 31 or just a TOEFL score of 113? I will take the ACT again on Dec 13th though…
Also, I contacted my EC, he answered once but we couldn’t really arrange an interview date. I e-mailed him a couple of times and I don’t want to send another thousand because I really don’t want to strangle him! What should I do?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot! </p>
<p>Sending the TOEFL will be perfectly adequate. If you submit both, MIT will use the score that puts you in the best light.</p>
<p>If your EC isn’t responding, you should email interview at mit dot edu and see if you can be re-situated.</p>
<p>Thank you very much! That was very helpful!
I also have another question: My school does offer IB but I didn’t take IB since we had to choose at 9th grade and our financial situation was not the best at the time. Will that hurt my application?</p>
<p>I was recently in a math competition (UNL Math Day), and did well. Would there be a way of adding that to my file so to speak?
Also, I just received my SAT subject scores back for November and they are not optimal, especially my science. I applied EA and this was my first experience with SAT format as I’m from a small town in the Midwest (SAT/SAT Subject Tests are rarely taken). The november test date is the last considered for EA…would I be best sending my scores (there was a problem with getting MIT on my original score report) of this test to still be in the EA pool or by doing better my second go-around in December and changing my app to RD?</p>
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You can send an email and ask to have the information added to your file. </p>
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This is a tough question to answer, and, in the end, it’s totally up to you. Most EA applicants are deferred to RD, not rejected, so if deferred, you could always update your application with a December or January test score. If you’re rejected EA, it’s almost certainly not due just to your test scores, but I see your point that it’s not possible to present improved test scores if you’ve already been rejected.</p>
<p>If I have an 800 in CR, should I take the toefl?</p>
<p>I just realized a very big…dumb mistake. I forgot to send my SAT subject test scores. I sent my SAT and ACT, but forgot about the subject test scores…Is there anything I can do right now or is it too late?</p>
<p>Oh wait I did…OMG I feel even more stupid now. Sorry. My brain is not in the right place apparently. </p>
<p>@orangemaple Lol I’m having an admissions breakdown right now too. Too much turkey? 
Panicked yesterday because I wasn’t sure if I needed to send ALL my scores to some of my schools… it’s been an interesting week.</p>