Most FAQ about admission at MIT

Phoestre
Tue, 17 May 2011 10:51:31 +0000

We can’t know whatever this profile can get him in or not but we can help you understand the situation.

First of all, dependiing on your school a C might equal an A somewhere else therefore I believe that school grades for internatonals mostly do not represent an ability, unless you fail the course, of course.

2050, for an international, is REALLY good. Is you school in English education(physics, maths etc… all in english)? If thats the case, 2050 might not be that high. However for a non-native speaker 2050 is really decent. May I ask what is your scores in each section?

I don’t think they have a set-in-stone weighting system for grades, scores and essays. Each serve a different purpose and supplement each other as I see. I don’t think unless you have REALLY big communication issues, essays can’t hurt you. Therefore instead of the structure/grammar of the essay, the content inside matters most. What you tell them, might change their opinion about you and this is the point of essays. So I don’t think there are poorly written and well written essays but influential essays.