<p>My mom keeps telling me I won’t get in EA. LOL. She’s very supportive. :p</p>
<p>@Zephoku</p>
<p>SO you heard from MIT that it is going to be Dec 15th??? Any specifics?</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel really dumb for not spending more time on it. However, when I asked my guidance counselor about it, he had never heard of it. Then again, he didn’t know what MIT stood for, and no one at my school has ever heard of Siemens or Intel competitions… It sucks not being able to know anything unless I search myself.</p>
<p>Here’s a question: when MIT tells us the date that decisions will be released, will they also give us the time? Or will I just be stuck refreshing all day?
December 15th is my first day of finals, so… that could potentially be very distracting. :P</p>
<p>They usually announce a time along with the date.</p>
<p>Who wants to fantasize about what getting the tube would be like…
I wonder if mit acceptees can fly…</p>
<p>@CC Lurker: My Chem teacher, AP Physics teacher, and several friends told me the same thing. I don’t really expect to get in, but it would be a NICE surprise. :)</p>
<p>@drosophyllum: I had a dream the other night that I got a tube, but I had to fight off ninjas to get it. I prevailed though.</p>
<p>quiteVAlid: lol its not too far from the truth if you reallllyyyy think about it</p>
<p>quiteVAlid:Yeah I think I’ve done a pretty good job of building up that mentality, so that the result will either be expected or a wonderful surprise (as opposed to shocking disappointment haha).</p>
<p>I’ve had some people tell me I won’t get in, but I’ve had some say that they think I can definitely get in. I think that’s more their ignorance of not knowing how hard it is to get in, than anything else :)</p>
<p>Hahahaha that’s pretty funny. A little racist, but it’s okay, I’m Asian :D</p>
<p>is there any way to get this thread as RSS? this would allow me to monitor this thread even more obsessively…</p>
<p>@ Lurker</p>
<p>It is SO much worse having everyone (like, people I barely know) come up to you and be like “you’re applying to MIT, right?” And then you say “yeah…” and they’re like, “I totally think you’re going to get in.” My teachers and my classmates are all expecting me to get in, and if I don’t then I’m going to have everyone be disappointed and I’m going o have to deal with months of people coming up to me and trying to “comfort” me and just reminding me about it. </p>
<p>There’s that, and if the other girl who’s applying gets in and I don’t, then I’ll have to deal with months of her gloating and wearing her MIT shirt whenever we have class together. That, and everyone hates her, so people will want to complain about her to me and it’ll just remind me of the whole mess. (I know that makes me sound mean, but that’s what half my LA class has been doing since they heard we were both applying EA.)</p>
<p>not to mention my whole family…</p>
<p>Expectations make everything so much worse. I already put enough pressure on myself, as I’m sure we all do here on CC, and having everyone else involved makes it so much worse. It does help to be able to talk about it, though. I’d rather have people thinking it’s a long shot so they won’t be disappointed if I don’t get in.</p>
<p>when i was at splash in 9th grade i bought an mit sack-pack and ive been using it ever since… if i don’t get in everyone would know…</p>
<p>i think maybe my teachers would throw fruit… lol</p>
<p>
The disadvantages that low-income students face are not just about the number of times one can afford to take the SAT. Come on, guys. I think you are all aware that anecdotes =/= data, and that the actual data does show a significant disadvantage for low-income students in college admissions (not to mention in graduating from college, as low-income students are much more likely to have to take on heavy work schedules during college, which often impacts time to graduation).</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to imply that that was the only disadvantage. I was just addressing the specific example of taking the SAT multiple times. As for the rest of my post, there are many opportunities that don’t require a lot of money like some overseas trips do. That’s all. I do realize that there are also other disadvantages.</p>
<p>Whenever I try to convince myself I’ll get rejected, and it will be a nice surprise if I get in, I keep thinking of just how nice a surprise that would be. I think the best way to get your mind off it is to work on other applications. Even though I would rather go to MIT than anywhere else I’m applying to, it sort of gets me excited about my other schools. </p>
<p>On that note, this should be a huge week for most ivy ED applicants. I know Cornell releases decisions on thursday and UPenn on friday. I may be wrong but I think Columbia and Brown will be sometime this week too? </p>
<p>Do we have any non-MIT ED-ers here?</p>
<p>On my phone call with MIT, not much specifics to be had. She just said 15th.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean for it to sound racist. 
Ninjas can be of any race, can’t they?</p>
<p>I couldn’t tell though, because I was too busy kicking butt for the MIT tube to look at their partially concealed faces. :)</p>