<p>Wow. 1 week, 25 minutes. </p>
<p>The Columbia equivalent of this thread currently has 77 pages. Anyone think we could crank out another 50 by next week?</p>
<p>^ The Stanford one has 270+ pages.</p>
<p>I want my Stanford/Yale SCEA friends to hold off on opening their decisions until the 16th so we can commiserate at the same time</p>
<p>has anyone else set decisions.mit.edu as their homepage?</p>
<p>u are obsessed</p>
<p>Hahah ^</p>
<p>OMGG 5 more minutes! Plus another weeeeek. :P</p>
<p>QUESTION:</p>
<p>So, if we are deferred, does MIT give us the option of making changes to our RD applications like all other RD applicants, or “is” our application deferred “as” we submitted it EA? (as is)</p>
<p>as is but you are allowed to send in supplements between now and jan. 1st( not sure about this date) if you think it will help your application.</p>
<p>You can send additional information through about the third week of January or so, but you don’t need to do so.</p>
<p>Matt has a blog entry each year for deferred students: [MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “For EA Deferred Students”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/for_ea_deferred_students_1.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/for_ea_deferred_students_1.shtml)</p>
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<p>@defend51</p>
<p>I’m a football recruit too. I heard similar things to what you said. I’m just so unsure how much push we get (if at all significant).</p>
<p>Yeah I mean in a few days I’ll be able to shed some more light on the sport recruit deal. I hope it has some positive effect, but I’m not relying on it.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all CC MIT EA Applicants</p>
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<p>My son was told by the MIT coach that he was the program’s number one overall recruit and that the admissions department would be aware of that fact. He also said that it doesn’t mean much as well. He did say that academics are first which if you apply to a university like MIT that is what anyone would expect. My son has a 4.31/4.00 GPA with seven AP classes and five honors classes which are not on a 5 point scale due to school district policy. He got a 31 ACT (he wishes it was higher) and 770 on Math II and 720 on Bio-M. He has been honored as a High School All-American and has one two Silver Medals at the National Championships in his sport and two CIF championships at the local level. Hope that helps him get in, but like everybody, we know it’s a small chance to get in.</p>
<p>I meant won two Silver Medals. HA!</p>
<p>Thanks for touting your son.</p>
<p>It wasn’t meant to be touting. It was in reference to the sports posts that talk about whether or not sports had any clout. This was meant to show that even though sports are great, academics are more important. Sorry if you were offended. I wanted to express that the coaches even say that athletics alone doesn’t help at MIT. You have to be a student first. As proud as I am of my son’s athletic success, I am more proud of what he does with his mind. Sports are short term, academics are for the rest of his life. Again, sorry if you were offended.</p>
<p>YEAH GO MIT EAers WOOOO!!!</p>
<p>–Stanford Eaer :)</p>
<p>@Djokovic: Are you at all related to the tennis player Novak Djokovic? just curious</p>
<p>These threads can get quite coercive lol</p>
<p>haha no I am just an avid Djokovic tennis fan :).</p>
<p>@ChargerFans</p>
<p>I wasn’t offended at all. I was just amused to see a parent so involved on his/her child’s college process.</p>
<p>Last year didn’t they release RD Decisions on 3/14 at 1:59?</p>
<p>My parents aren’t really involved in my college applications, but I like it better that way (for me). I’m sure a lot of people appreciate the help that their parents offer to them during this stressful time. :)</p>