<p>@Aniger - </p>
<p>I’m the only person likely to be familiar with that, so yes, explain it. A wikipedia link will do.</p>
<p>^^^Thanks, didn’t know you would look at links! Can link to the New York Times review of the live machinima production my son was involved in writing, producing and performing (hopefullly New York Times review will legitimate it, my son is always concerned it is dismissed as not legitimate or not “real theater”, which is the issue with many of the new media art forms he feels…)</p>
<p>Sure! We love to see links.</p>
<p>MITChris: “Sure! We love to see links.”</p>
<p>If I were applying this year I’d totally just fill up that extra space at the end with random links now. 
Or perhaps links of pictures of links. But not links to lolcats, in case you read my app.</p>
<p>But not links to lolcats</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>I should just write my entire application from the perspective of Ceiling Cat:</p>
<p>Oh hai der. In teh beginnin I maded teh skiez An da Urfs…</p>
<p>No. Don’t.</p>
<p>god, i hate lolcats.</p>
<p>Does MIT welcome rising juniors to campus visits? One thing a rising junior can do while a rising senior cannot is that he/she has 1 more year to get ready for applying to a dream school. What should a junior be looking for on a campus tour at MIT?</p>
<p>MIT is sort of intimidating…You go to the College Board website, look at the average SAT scores and the acceptance rate. It’s tough to even think for minutes that you have a reasonable chance for MIT.</p>
<p>It’s not wise to visit any campus if you don’t have a reasonable chance at it, unless you are local or have nothing else to do. Good thing for a rising junior is that she has time to get the stats necessary.</p>
<p>I found that visiting campuses is very helpful actually. Especially in cases where the school is a reach for anyone. For example, I visited Yale and I really didn’t like it and decided I wouldn’t even apply because even I did get accepted, I wouldn’t go. It took off a lot of stress for me. I was a rising junior when I visited too. Also I visited MIT and it was amazing, but I was in town anyway for that.</p>
<p>@lake - </p>
<p>Sure, rising juniors can visit MIT. And while I do agree that one cost-minimizing strategy is to not visit schools unless you get in, I don’t think it’s unwise to visit them.</p>
<p>MITChris, how harshly do you consider freshmen grades? I had a small dip but came back during my sophomore year. I visited MIT on August 2nd. Were you the Asian dude not wearing the MIT shirt?</p>
<p>No, I was not ‘the Asian dude’. I am white as snow. </p>
<p>Let me put it this way: there’s a never a ‘good time’ to get bad grades, but if you had to pick a time, freshman year, with an uptick in succeeding years, is the least worst.</p>
<p>^I thought freshman year was just a pass/fail average? So if you got some low grades but still managed to pass, does that have some sort of a negative impact for you later?</p>
<p>That’s pretty pale, Chris. ^^</p>
<p>Jimmy797 - I think you’re confusing the P/NR system for MIT freshmen and how MIT considers applicants’ high school freshman grades.</p>
<p>I received a C+ in Freshmen English. Mostly missing assignments because that was the year I had eczema. I usually do well in English but that was the only time I made a dip. I’m probably screwed but oh well. I can compensate for that by making exotic dishes for the entire admissions team if they accept me. :D</p>
<p>
Oh woops. I thought Chris was referring to getting a bad grade while at MIT as opposed to at high school.</p>
<p>I got an A- in freshman english, geometry. Count me out during the 2013 application…lol</p>