<p>Maybe an easy question or maybe it’s tough, for Chris or others.</p>
<p>If a prospective student, never been to Boston before, has 24 hours in Boston to visit MIT (not any other schools), what things, other than the information session and campus tour, should he see/do in the city?</p>
<p>Same question here. Visiting MIT on Fri, then Harvard Sat. With just one night in Boston, what is the must-do priority?</p>
<p>@resilient193 - </p>
<p>I’m not smart enough to be that subliminal. </p>
<p>By “accurate”, I meant that no one on CC can provide a meaningful chance at MIT, because any process used on CC is fundamentally orthogonal to our process. To the extent that any chance is “accurate”, it is by accident. </p>
<p>As for USAMO - </p>
<p>I use USAMO because it’s a top level math competition that most folks know about. The vast majority of MIT students are not USAMO qualifiers, and most USAMO qualifiers who apply do not get in. Qualifying for the USAMO is a good thing - good enough for me to note it in my read of the application - but not something that will get you in of itself. </p>
<p>You are correct, by the way, that USAMO qualifiers disproportionately represent students of elite schools of means; this is one of the central problems to any admissions process, and one of the reasons why we look at many components of the application, and not just headlines of awards won. </p>
<p>@touring boston: </p>
<p>I recommend looking at this list of activities - </p>
<p>[MITAC:</a> Events & Discounts](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/mitac/]MITAC:”>MITAC Has Moved)</p>
<p>and picking from there. You won’t get the discount, but it’s a great list of stuff to see/do in Boston.</p>
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<p>That is not a true statement.</p>
<p>^ Hes implying Asians, WongTongTong.</p>
<p>Does that mean its more impressive to win a major award if you’re from a public high school? And yeah I would agree that some USAMO qualifiers are just pushed to work to death. What can you find so exciting about math that you would try so hard in doing it? I know that the AIME qualifier at my school goes to a special math class every Saturday, not trying to be mean but that’s just weird.</p>
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<p>Well, from a high school with less opportunity, probably yes. (I will note that one of the nearby public schools had far better programs than my private high school.)</p>
<p>“lesser oppurtunities”? Hmm I’m not liking how my high school is in surburban CT.</p>
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that’s reassuring… because I never even heard of it until this year! I’m a rising senior</p>
<p>^^That’s why MIT is good to look at applicants holistically. For a rich kid with a personal college counselor and a SAT coach, a SAT 2300 is not as impressive as a 2200 from a poor kid. The latter could have more potential.</p>
<p>Resilient, I didn’t hear of USAMO until a year into college, when a friend of mine brought up all these math competitions, and I was interested in math early in high school, and actually did quite a lot of it. Who knows, maybe I would have liked math competitions more if I started hearing about them and doing them early. I’d definitely not worry about not hearing about it.</p>
<p>MITChris u r right.Everytime i log in and see chances threads i m get stressed and I think that I dont have any possibility to get in.I dont know I think that is very frustrating for me so I not log in enough.I want to give my best without stress.:)</p>
<p>But i believe that the only time that we will actually know the truth will be when the desicions will arrive to us.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of u!I wish u the best!:D</p>
<p>bump because a lot of people have been asking for chances lately!</p>
<p>Hey Chris, are the admissions officers well versed in musicals such as RENT and Wicked, and amazing artists like Queen and Journey? It would help in my essay, haha</p>
<p>Don’t stop</p>
<p>believin’ </p>
<p>hold on to that feeeeeeling </p>
<p>streetlight </p>
<p>people </p>
<p>oooooooooouuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!</p>
<p>My friend has a 25 ACT with a 3.0 GPA. Can you give him an accurate chance? That’s what I thought. Sincerely, a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Would admissions officers be familiar with machinima or digital puppetry, or should my son explain? Thanks much.</p>
<p>^^^That made my day. Thanks :D</p>
<p>Glad it cheered you, but why? Are you a fan?</p>
<p>My interest in MIT has a “first impressions” feel to it.I met two Harvard students(chinese),and one from MIT(Indian) who were vacationing in Africa,Kenya to be specific.They talked to me about their schools,but it was the MIT guy who jazzed me.It was also the first time i met nerds who worked out!</p>