<p>I’m really disappointed. Our internet broke last night, and I wanted to make my chemistry teacher two very large periodic table cookies (ie, one larger one for the main part and a smaller one for the Lanthanoids and Actinoids) but sans computer, I couldn’t color them. I didn’t want everything to go all stale waiting for icing.</p>
<p>valid and I were talking about NMS… </p>
<p>it doesn’t really matter for the top 10 schools and places like MIT. They don’t really care if you show preference. But, for schools that track preference/interest, it really matters.</p>
<p>Though MIT was my first choice at the time I sent the card, I sent mine to emory because it’s a really good choice for me, they honor NMS scholarships, and they track preference. If I were you, I’d send in a card changing your first choice to one of your midrange schools that honors NMS- it’ll help get you in, and you might get some scholarship money out of the deal. It really doesn’t matter to MIT- they already know based on your test scores/GPA (and the fact that you’re applying) hat you’re one of the top 16,000 kids. They don’t need a test that is highly inaccurate at detecting college success and taken a year before they even know the students are applying factoring into their decisions. It doesn’t help in separating out those who are exceptional naturally from those that have been coached (I know a lot of kids who are coached). And it certainly doesn’t predict how well the student’s going to do in college- I have a friend that has perfect SATs and ACTs, but his GPA is a 3.5 weighted out of 5. A college like MIT isn’t going to let him in just based on the fact that he’s NMS or perfect scorer.</p>
<p>Sorry for that rant. I have good scores, but I just had a fight with my guidance counselor over re-taking my subject tests. I got 740/730/610 (math 2/bio m/french), and I think that’s good enough. I refuse to take these meaningless tests again, and I greatly prefer colleges that look at the person over the test scores.</p>
<p>I agree. Tests are just a checkpoint.</p>
<p>Ps. Those are great scores! Shame on your counselor.</p>
<p>I hope this isn’t a stupid question, but if on my application part 2, I put down my october SAT scores, which were significantly lower than my november scores, will MIT even know that I took the november test and improved? I made sure to both score reports to MIT, I guess i’m just a little paranoid that they’ll somehow overlook my november scores since I didn’t outright report them on the application (scores weren’t out at the time)</p>
<p>Don’t worry, JDong217, if you sent the official score reports, then it’s no problem. MIT will know that you took both and automatically superscore them.</p>
<p>I’m sure they’ve gotten the scores, JDong! Plus, if you go to your MyMIT account and click on the “details” button on the orange “application tracking” box and scroll down, you can see which scores MIT has received.
I’ve been following this thread from the beginning, and like of all of you, I’m freaking out about this! haha, I’ve already checked the decisions site at least 10 times, and I know I’m going to be glued to the computer all of Wednesday!</p>
<p>smile, you know they really aren’t going to release them early, right? They do it on the dot. gluing yourself to the computer is only going to freak you out. Do something fun while you wait!</p>
<p>That said, I’ll be working when it happens. Yay! Work!</p>
<p>I know. I know it’s absolutely ridiculous but I only have one final that day and I’m free, and I have no other plans except to study for other finals. And I’m just going to be stuck at home, trying to study, but with the computer right in front of me, with the smallest amount of hope that they release the decisions early and that I make it! argh. I’ll just have to make some sort of plans, I guess. screw finals. :P</p>
<p>i can exempt my finals on wednesday, so i have nothing to do all wednesday…
except study for finals on thursday, which i probably won’t do.
waiting sucks.</p>
<p>I have a Calc test on Wednesday. :S</p>
<p>@kitkatkatie - They usually release them a few minutes early, but I suppose that doesn’t really count. XD</p>
<p>Does anyone else have a sort of “invincible” feeling? I mean, I know that probability dictates that I will be deferred, but I’m so used to being at the top of everything I do that anything but an acceptance will hit really hard.</p>
<p>
Have you seen [url=<a href=“http://notsohumblepie.blogspot.com/2009/11/periodic-table-of-cookies.html]these[/url”>Not So Humble Pie: Science Cookies: Periodic Table]these[/url</a>]? Totally awesome!</p>
<p>Not so much an invincible feeling, but only thoughts of being accepted and what I would do afterwards fill my mind, so if (when) I do end up being deferred I’ll just be confused on what to do.</p>
<p>what kind of stats do you guys have that make you guys so confident?
i feel like it all just comes down to luck for everyone now.</p>
<p>@soadquake981</p>
<p>i have a similar feeling inside but a bit different, since I’m not always at the top(which i don’t mind either). But i have this feeling in me, one that i can’t explain, and i really hope to God that it has to do with me getting accepted into M.I.T. Good luck to everyone, three days to go.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t think any of us have amazing-guaranteed-admission stats, we just have sort of that feeling.</p>
<p>My stats alone, I feel qualify me. I don’t think stats alone can get any of us in.</p>
<p>What makes me confident is the extraordinary engineering projects I have undertaken. One involved bringing a computer to over 6Ghz using liquid nitrogen. Another essay was about my other project: spending months building a refrigeration unit using vacuum pumps, welding torches, HVAC tools, etc.</p>
<p>My SAT is 2250
MathII: 800
Chem: 760
My class rank is like 39/450</p>
<p>I think MIT is the kind of place that would really value my willingness to take on big projects like that. At least I’m hoping…</p>
<p>Well, my stats are pretty decent… 2400 SAT and 4.0 GPA with full IB courseload, but I know that stats are only the first step in the decisions process. Since my school is new (I’m part of the first graduating class), there weren’t too many science EC opportunities for me, but I did some research at a local university this past summer.</p>
<p>Oh well, we’ll see.</p>
<p>eli,</p>
<p>you know that most of the competitive people (1000+) for MIT have engineering projects like that and stats like that, right?</p>
<p>I mean, liquid nitrogen is cool, but it’s more that you have something that you care about and have pursued it successfully, no matter what it is. I wrote an essay about my engineering project, but I combined it with my forestry volunteering. I’m sure that half the people applying to MIT have had some sort of internship or science project. That alone isn’t enough. It’s a strange combination of qualities and chance that equal an acceptance.</p>
<p>That said, there was a tech article up that said that MIT will rank students on the leadership abilities as one of the three subjective parts of the application. Did you have significant leadership in that engineering project? in other activities? enough to get you a perfect score in that section of consideration? (I’m actually curious on this one)</p>
<p>(I didn’t know about this leadership thing until after I submitted my app. Man, am I sure glad I included my supplemental essay. 
And, my supplement if I get deferred specifically targets this.)</p>
<p>I’d think about the whole “match between you and mit” article, and just how unique you are in the eyes of admissions before you go shooting off all over these forums about your confidence. We’re all in the same boat now, and I hope we have a disproportionate number of people here get accepted. That said, just having good stats and a science related hook (like the average MIT CCer does) isn’t enough to make you invincible. Consider those around you. We are all pretty awesome, but we still have doubts. And a lot of us will get deferred.</p>
<p>Humility is a virtue.</p>