<p>handala92…are your parents honestly going to be mad at you for not being accepted to one of the most difficult institutions in the world to get accepted to? or are you just afraid that they are going to be disappointed in general?</p>
<p>I agree. The fact is, I got in although i probably didn’t deserve to. It could have been my race, but it also could have been my subjective aspects, such as essays and recs. I don’t appreciate everyone saying I’m lieing, when the truth is I got in and don’t know why. </p>
<p>Again, I am acknowledgeing I made my acc today, my friend told me that everyone posts on CC so I figured I would too. I guess I was wrong and this place is just filled with racism. Ironcially, though I hadn’t experienced racism before writing my essay about it, I am after it succeeded and i got in.</p>
<p>@thoss91: Okay lets assume that these are actually ■■■■■■ and not real admits. But we cannot really deny that this may actually be happening on a wider scale…</p>
<p>@ ivyhopeful<br>
my biggest problem with you isn’t that you got in because of your race. It’s that you got in because you lied where as people who were honest and didn’t use the ghetto card and the poor card (dishonestly in your case) weren’t accepted.</p>
<p>@ivyhope^ There’s more racism against Asians and Whites in college admissions, so you’ve got it wrong</p>
<p>lol i think the nuclear reactor guy was also a ■■■■■</p>
<p>@ecthelion: i am not denying it. i’m just saying that debating it on a board like this has no useful prupose. just go see the yale board to see my point. it just turns ugly after a while. if people really care, they shouldn’t debate it. They should take action.</p>
<p>My parents were in utter disbelief when they found out my decision. I know they are biased but it is still another person who didn’t get in.</p>
<p>Did you all not see where he said that HE LIED in his essay? Cant his acceptance be rescinded for perjury? I’m AA and all for you getting accepted but if you did in fact lie then I think your spot should be given to somebody who truly deserves. I took the most rigorous courses that my school offers and I still managed to get good grades. High school is not that hard* (in comparison to college) so if you have a 2.99 GPA then maybe you’re not ready for a place like MIT. </p>
<p>*By the way I didnt apply but I just couldn get over the fact that he lied in his essay. </p>
<p>Congrats to those who got in. To those who didnt, you’ll find joy elsewhere.:)</p>
<p>^^that’s exactly how i feel! i’ve pointed this out but no one else seems to have noticed until now.</p>
<p>Please bring your discussions to this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/881572-lets-talk-about-race-some-more-because-thats-always-fun.html#post1064305888[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/881572-lets-talk-about-race-some-more-because-thats-always-fun.html#post1064305888</a></p>
<p>Clearly, MIT is taking the wrong way to boost its school ranking by lowering its admissions rate. As you can see, so many excellent students fitting it perfectly have been rejected. In a nutshell, MIT is no longer a top-notch school for academically top-notch applicants nowadays.</p>
<p>actually the first time i read what he had written it came like a big blow, and i thought, “no,no,noo…you must be joking”…but then i realized that he was actually serious…and then i recieved another blow…this raises another query actually… hasn’t it become ridiculously easy to lie on your college essay…</p>
<p>PS: BTW, it turns out that MIT, together with many other ivies it seems, is hell bent on castrating 2400s…lol…</p>
<p>i don’t know… for me, i knew i was going to get rejected, and i think MIT made the right decision to reject me. i am in no way a match for the school, and looking back, i have no idea why i applied. i would be at a lost at MIT–i really didn’t have serious science and math credentials to back up the other fields i wanted to pursue to really thrive at MIT. and i think because i just applied on a whim, my lackadaisical effort showed. oh well, it certainly hurts to get a rejection regardless, but i’m simply happy that instead of me, someone who really deserves it is going!</p>
<p>^schymp, the lowering of the acceptance rate is the consequence of more students applying and MIT continuing to have the same number of spots available. It’s not intentional on MIT’s part.</p>
<p>For someone who got rejected, you should bring that to the attention of the admissions commitee. I’m of black descent so of course I’m for affirmative action. Alot of blacks do not get the same SAT Prep as whites or any SAT Prep for that matter so I see where it is needed. </p>
<p>I dont know and I really do not care, my future is already set. Again, if you got rejected, everything happens for a reason so dont kill yourself.</p>
<p>Mollie is correct - our lowering acceptance rate is a function of more people applying for the same spots and nothing else.</p>
<p>Again, in ordar to lower acceptance rate, MIT is choosing a WRONG way to attract more applicants. That is the truth.</p>
<p>You know…I can kind of tell why some of you weren’t accepted to MIT (based on your posts here)…just saying.</p>
<p>The way I feel right now is as if I was asking MIT out on a date and I was rejected outright. MIT was my dream… It was everything I wanted since I was eight years old. But I guess, MIT just never reciprocated my feelings. I know that I’m just a junior, and that I still have a year to apply. But this year, I’ve become extremely disillusioned. I feel that MIT might not be the best place for me anymore… Maybe it’s time to move on from this foolish dream…</p>