Will this essay guarantee a rejection?

Mitforme
Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:01:30 +0000

Not a smart idea to post your essay as is on CF.

It’s good that you use OCW, I use it plenty myself as an MIT student who’s often too lazy to schlep myself to class (especially morning ones. oh god bless OCW.) However, I’d say maybe focus more on why your presence at the institute would contribute to your growth and to MIT’s diverse community. Admissions generally looks for smart, creative, out-of-the-ordinary people who seek out advancement of their knowledge in any field they’re interested in, and applying it too. For example, a student who’s interested in comp eng might follow the course VI lectures on OCW, but it’d be wayyy cooler if she or he did that AND, say, spent a summer working at a company programming nanocomputers to do awesome things. It’s not necessary of course, and it has a lot to do with your background and circumstances (esp the opportunities you’ve had around you), but what MIT likes to see, I feel, is someone that looks to expand their knowledge, as well as apply it in cool funky ways. I feel like this because a lot of my friends here now were like that at high school! (I was like that too lol, big computer nerd)