Race in MIT admissions.

snipersas
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:55:13 +0000

Usually it comes across in things like essays, interviews, and guidance counselor letters. Or say the first kid has summer research at a prestigious university. Is it in his dad’s lab? Well, that means something different than for a kid without those connections who gets the research opportunity. It doesn’t mean the research in dad’s lab isn’t important or good (it’s great!), it just means something about comparative initiative.



If you do work in a lab, receive research grants, publish etc. would it be wise then to note in your application (through an essay maybe?) that you got the job entirely by cold-calling professors and asking if they needed research help, rather then through some type of connections? I have precisely 0 connections/resources, but I’m worried my application might suggest otherwise.