My thoughts on the early admissions

NYwonder
Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:55:23 +0000

After going through the decision thread, other threads, and the MIT admissions site I was able to come to these conclusions regarding the admissions process.

If you were a white/Asian male, no stats were enough for acceptance. You had to have some hook such as USAMO, Intel/Siemens, or other activity/award of similar prestige.

If you were a URM/female, impressive stats and/or exhibited passion in math/science was enough to earn an acceptance.

This is not meant to offend anyone and is simply patterns I was able to make while reading through all of this. Obviously there are going to be exceptions to this so personal anecdotes don’t really invalidate the overall trend. Good luck to all of those deferred in the RD round!