<p>HI
I am Dada from Dhaka,Bangladesh. No specific news from here.
I was hopeful that antares, anunay and quiverfox from India will be selected in MIT as they are awsome candidates. One of them is having Olympiad gold medal. Any news about them? I earnestly hope that they are selected.</p>
<p>hennebou, I am really feeling for you. You are really a awesome human being. From the very beginning, you made these threads lively and enjoyable through your enthusiastic participation. I am sure that you and rajoftheuk has got selection in the school of our heart.
Thank you buddy.</p>
<p>As of now, I know just one person from India who’s been accepted. He’s got an IMO Gold and probably isn’t on CC. MIT won’t reject a gold, the guy you’re talking about has probably made it too. :)</p>
<p>MIT should in all seriousness put up the following message when international students begin their application -“Those without olympiad bling may not apply” Whats the point of “Applying Sideways” and posts of that sort on the blog.</p>
<p>^ You are wrong here, sorry.
I was wait-listed earlier today. I know of 4 admits this year. One of them is Antares, who has a gold medal in the IMO, not the WoPhO. ConfusedHexagon, you may know him - he’s pretty active on AoPS. Another admit also has a medal in the IMO. The third has a medal at the IOI.</p>
<p>However, the fourth is not an Olympiad medalist. He has contributed to EdX significantly. While I do not know his details, I’m pretty sure he has not been to the ISOs. So, I guess, while MIT does value intl medalists more than other institutes, a medal is not a necessity. Moreover, why shouldn’t MIT prefer olympians? After all, they have probably worked the hardest.</p>
<p>Actually, antares IS the person I was talking about. Just figured that out. I do know him, got the news on FB.
However, I’m skeptical about the other IMO medalist you’re mentioning. Because there is only one other medalist in the HS batch of 2013 and she didn’t apply, as far as I know.
IOI? Oh, so Amartya Sankha applied and got in? Great! :)</p>
<p>Oh sorry. Just figured that out. I got to know about the other IMO medalist from a friend of mine. But, I’m guessing I could be wrong. Yay for Amartya!</p>
<p>There’s not point in criticizing the admission process now. I know it can help to fight the sadness, but it’s over for us now.
Now it’s our duty to go elsewhere, succeed, and show them they were wrong no to admit us ;)</p>
<p>@souravdada : Thanks man, your post is really beautiful. What you said means a lot to me. Like most of us here, I came for the name, and stayed for the people and the culture. </p>
<p>Hope you’ll all be happy wherever you go !</p>
<p>Btw, we’re still waiting for news from quiverfox ! Is he the lottery winner here ? I’m so with you quiver, you represent this thread’s last hope now ! :p</p>
<p>Ah. lol. Guessed so. I know someone who went to the IMOTC (OCSC for the IMO) with a tremendous app. Still waiting for a word from him. Maybe the IMO guy you were talking about is him. Certainly hope so. :)</p>
<p>Guys, go read that other thread “On The Dream, Working Hard, and Rejection”, from lurker31413.
It’s really well written, and it summarize all the feelings that I have (and that you may have too) right now.</p>
<p>Hi all,
I will request future applicants to MIT from this sub-continent to get some medals in Olympiads if they aspire to go to MIT instead of reading rubbish advice from some 3rd grade articles of world’s best ADCOMs of MIT like applying sideways etc. Those are marketing tricks and techniques.
So, you must apply straightway with medal in your head, since MIT mostly require medals from the applicants of this sub-continent.
From this years selected candidates one can find the truth in my blunt statement.</p>
<p>In my country, this year one female candidate with Bronze medal in Physics Olympiad got selected and she is from Cephalon International school - Dhaka. She is a very good candidate. But when better is there, being good is not enough.</p>
<p>However, I am not a rejected candidate as I have not applied to MIT and I have already selected in an IVY school.</p>
<p>I have written this by feeling the pain of some of my fellow international candidates and reading the rubbish of Adcoms in MIT blog.</p>
<p>Dada with a heavy heart (feeling pain of numerous fellow applicants).</p>
<p>@Nash: Well 3 out of 4 are medallists so you cant say its an unfair assesment. I’m curious though, how does one “contribute” top EdX without being at Harvard/MIT/Berkeley ( the cluster which started EdX) or one of the other universities.
My sister’s friend at Berkeley helped getting the site up and running , UCP etc but he was a current student. I’ve been following EdX out of interest, but dont know of any opputunities to contribute.</p>
<p>In any case, congratulations to all those accepted! I’m not really sour grapes, although I may be giving off the impression. I knew coming into this what the odds were. Just curious thats all . Obviously, I’m nowhere near as focussed purely on Sci/Math as people who have the talent to make it to IMO.</p>
<p>Olympiads aren’t the only thing. I have 4 medals in various international Olympiads (in math only) in the last 4 years and several before that, and I still got rejected. It’s really a monopoly of who they like. I know people with extensive research and filed patents who were outright rejected.</p>
<p>But well, with such a thin acceptance rate, one shouldn’t be complaining. :)</p>
