Official MIT Class of 2016 RD Discussion Thread

iceui2
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:01:25 +0000

@mystory: That is only true to some extent. MIT is not the only schools who take Intel winners - it is also rare for the Ivies to turn down Intel Finalists. And they rely on the prestigious program to pick the exceptional students for them: there is a reason why the Intel application is so long. From personal experience, most people who win Intel do NOT win it from working in their parents’ lab. And you also can’t state that specifically for MIT because other schools practice it as well. In the end, college admissions is not fair. But if you think about it, there is no way that will ever make it completely fair for everyone, so they have to do with the best they got.

I definitely won’t have the same opinions if I didn’t get into MIT. But the fact that I did shows that what I said holds true (at least in my case).