Official MIT 2011 EA Decision Thread

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
61

<p>Decision: Deferred
Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 800M 800CR 690W</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 4 X 800
GPA: 3.8</li>
<li>Rank: NA- school doesn’t reveak</li>
<li>Other stats: AIME 9, USAMO 7; AP 5 in Bio, Chem, BC Calc, Stat, USH, WH.</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Good for him, but not necessarily stellar- as per previoius post</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: should be excellent</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: should be excellent</li>
<li>Hook (if any): none</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: MA</li>
<li>School Type: Suburban Public HS</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars: Captain math team (one of the best teams in the state).</li>
</ul>

<p>The good news is that so far he’s taking it better than I am :)</p>

62

<p>Decision: DEFERRED</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2260 (800M, 730W, 730CR)
SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 770 Physics, 750 Latin
GPA: 4.402 Weighted
Rank: 1st Decile (top 10%)
AMC/AIME/USAMO: 1st place in 8th grade AMC 10, taken AIME twice
Other stats: Summa cum Laude 9th-11th</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Teachers said it was great, I thought so too.
Teacher Recs: Math and Latin, both should have been good.
Other Recs: From family friend, graduate of MIT.
Counselor Rec: Should be very good.
Hook (if any): Sent in invention design, photography portfolio, great interview.</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: New Jersey
School Type: Very competitive, rich suburban.
Ethnicity: Half-Japanese; did not check box but included it in supplementary information.
Gender: Male</p>

<p>Other Factors:
Extracurriculars: Tennis, Literary magazine, Chamber Orchestra & String Quartet (viola), Photography, Quiz Bowl.
Other Info: National AP Scholar, Well-travelled, Lots of APs.
Why I think I was deferred: I’ve never entered a science fair…? But seriously, probably because I’m not as crazy as some of these other crazy nerds (whom I love). Other things people have told me could have hurt: putting “Architecture” down for Major without any previous experience, submitting paper application as opposed to online, essay was about how much I love New York although I live in a drugged-up rich town in Jersey. Also someone else said that you can be rejected for being too “introspective.”</p>

<p>Other thoughts: I was hoping that I’d rejected instead of deferred…but now that it’s happened it ain’t so bad. Don’t really know why I was deferred, but oh well. It’s seriously not the end of the world (which might have been the problem). Time to finish up and send out other applications and perhaps get teachers to write additional recommendations for me for MIT.</p>

<p>But even if I never get in, I’ll still love MIT. It’ll just be a love-hate relationship.</p>

63

<p>Decision: Accepted!!!</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* Fee Waiver Used?: no

  • SAT I (by section): 790 M 690 CR 720 W (12 essay)
  • SAT IIs: 2 x 800 (Math 2, Physics) 710 Spanish
  • ACT: n/a
  • APs: 5’s on Calc BC, Music Theory, Euro History. 3 on Comp Sci
  • IBs: Math Methods 7, Spanish 6 HL
  • GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 105.72 W, 98.something UW
  • Rank: 1/502
  • Senior Yr Courseload: 4 HL IB’s + TOK, Ind. Study Research, Choir, Calc III Ind. Study 2nd semester
  • Number of Apps from Your School: 3
  • Other stats: AMC12: 118.5 AIME: 4
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* ECs listed on app: Tour Choir (going to France this year), heavily involved with music, Academic Team, Sci Olympiad, ton of Science Research (submitted to Intel), Columbia SHP

  • Job/Work Experience: tutoring
  • Essays (subject and responses): end of the world one, friend’s suicide, really powerful essay. the other one, how my science research project led me to be a successful wiffleball pitcher in a regional competition. it was a good one.
  • Teacher Recs: 1 phenominal + 1 really good + presumably great optional from science research mentor at the NSA
  • Counselor Rec: must have been awesome, im like her second son anyway
  • Interview (feel and general location): in a diner, hour and 32 minutes, interviewer had 11 years of experience and said “if you get in, youll be going for the right reasons”
    </code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: NY

  • School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public. very competitive, only about 10-15 to ivies though
  • Ethnicity: Half-Colombian, Half-Caucasian
  • Income Bracket: 50k-70k
  • Gender: M
  • Hooks: first-gen, first-gen to college, science research with a guy from the Nat’l Security Agency, member of Davidson Young Scholars
  • Strengths/Weaknesses: im very good at learning things
  • Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: i think i fit the school nicely, i had a great time in my visit, everything i seem to believe coincides
    </code></pre>

<p>Other Factors: im pretty random, i guess
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: that last half hour during my class was brutal with the wait. but it was so worth it. congrats guys! see you all in april!!!</p>

64

<p>ACCEPTED!!!
can hardly believe it…g2g2, will post stats soon!</p>

65

<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 800 Math, 720 Reading, 680 Writing

  • SAT IIs: 790 Math II, 790 Physics, 700 Literature
  • GPA: 4.6 weighted
  • Rank: 6th / 600
  • AMC/AIME/USAMO: AIME:2
  • Other stats:
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: I didn’t really answer the prompt. It sounded holden caulfield-ish

  • Teacher Recs: Dunno. I heard that one of them did their recs off a pre-made form. The other teacher probably gave me a good one.
  • Counselor Rec: I couldn’t tell if my counselor liked me or not. I’m her only student applying to mit,though.
  • Hook (if any): I like pie
    </code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: California

  • School Type: Public
  • Ethnicity: Asian-American
  • Gender: Male
    </code></pre>

<p>Other Factors:My interview sucked.</p>

66

<p>Accepted!</p>

<p>Stats later. Maybe.</p>

67

<p>“I sense some voluntary response biases here.”</p>

<p>Yeah go stat!</p>

68

<p>Congrats guys!</p>

<p>I <3 PENN!</p>

69

<p>I am intruding!</p>

70

<p>

</li>
</ul>

<p>What the hell??</p>

71

<p>that is odd.</p>

72

<p>i ll have no hope then…</p>

73

<p>judging by how many people with crazy stats got deferred, i dont think anybody really has any hope…</p>

74

<p>well i got in, it does happen</p>

75

<p>You can’t equate stats… there is absolutely no trend to be seen between deferred versus accepted based on what people have posted here so far.</p>

<p>Totally random. It’s like they laid out all the applications that made it past the initial scrutinization on the floor, and then tossed a can of paint in the air. The applications that got covered in paint were deferred, and the ones who escaped dry were accepted.</p>

76

<p>Hear, hear.</p>

<p>Thank the good Lord I made that last-minute decision to thoroughly soak my paper application with several coats of paint-repelling polymer solution.</p>

77

<p>MIT isn’t going to accept ALL USAMO ppl</p>

78

<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 800 Math, 700 Reading, 650 Writing</li>
<li>ACT: 36 C </li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 800 Bio E, 740 Chemistry, 730 US, 720 Physics</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 unweighted 4.9 weighted</li>
<li>Rank: 1/110</li>
<li>Other stats: 4 years varsity soccer (three year captain of club team), 3 years varsity cross country, 3 years quiz bowl (2 year captain on team with several tournament wins including small school division at NAQT), 2 years speech/debate, couple other generic clubs, national merit semifinalist, top 10 tester on math in state</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Not bad, but nothing outstanding</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Dunno. One was really good and the other was well written but maybe not what they wanted to hear.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Who knows</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Kentucky</li>
<li>School Type: Public (500 kids)</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Caucasion</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
</ul>

79

<p>doing this for a friend</p>

<p>Decision: Deffered</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 800 Math, 800 Reading, 800 Writing</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 800 Bio, 800 Chemistry</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 unweighted 5.2 weighted</li>
<li>APs: 7 5’s</li>
<li>Rank: 1/340
*amc/aime/usamo: 140/12/17</li>
<li><p>Other stats: 4 years varsity Tennis, 140/12/17(amc/aime/usamo), 4 years Math League(top scorer)-President, ACSL president(4th in world), Science Club, Science Olympiad,JSA, STudents Helping our Community, Canada USA math camp, mosp qualifier
Subjective:</p></li>
<li><p>Essays: good</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher Recs: really good</p></li>
<li><p>Counselor Rec: really good</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: New Jersey</li>
<li>School Type: Public (1400 kids)</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Jewish</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
</ul>

<p>made no sense to me</p>

80

<p>^makes no sense to me either. really sorry. </p>

<p>good luck in RD</p>