post your "qualification" here for the rejected

rainynightstarz
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:22:57 +0000

You know what? my school got 4 kids into MIT this year… and all of us are of American Chinese , or well some are just Chinese.
the 2 guys who got in didn’t even have to wait till March to get in, they got in December.

When you read through posts here, you are just reading words.When people mention certain activities, you can’t really know how much time , effort, mental stress they put in it nor how passionate they are about it.

We all know that MIT don’t admit by numbers. There are many “American Chinese” from my school who apply to MIT. Yes they have good grades, good scores, but many don’t have leadership positions. Some with the leadership positions don’t care for it other than to be able to write it in one’s college app. Things like that shows in one’s application. That might be partially why they didn’t get accepted. There is also many factors like teachers recommendation letters, the essays, the interview, activities… there are just so many factors. You can’t just say “he had these scores and I guess a 2390 isn’t enough”.