What kind of students does MIT look for?

anon89723960
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:21:43 +0000

As a warning…

Cool, you have numbers. Cool, you have positions. But those are empty without passion. Think about what you’re passionate about and work off that - because there are lots of people who apply with the stats that don’t get in. Then you have people like me who got decent grades and SATs, didn’t really have positions in school and stuff, but loved community service, flying planes, and riding horses. Those were my passions, and that’s what made me stand out as a person. That’s where my essays came from. I just worry that you simply list things that you’ve done because it seems like the wrong approach to take.