<p>First of all, I'd like to ask that they are not REQUIRED, right?</p>
<p>Ok. So a while ago, I went on FAFSA, and it asks me social security number which must mean it's for Americans. Am I right? Anyway, it's gone now, but there's still the CSS.</p>
<p>I went on CSS. Should I apply for CSS knowing that my chances for MIT are very very very low?</p>
<p>Another question, I can’t apply CSS for UC right?</p>
<p>If you don’t believe you can get in, why applied? What if you get in? Trying and hoping is worth it.
I’ve heard that the FAFSA is for US residents only, so don’t concern about it.
I don’t know if UC accepts CSS or not, so you should check it (Google is your friend :D)</p>
<p>I applied because I was hoping to ace my subject test, which I indubitably failed. =( I also failed my mid-year report. And you know my reasoning score, and that score is far from reasonable.</p>
<p>Okay, I’ve checked. 740 Math II and 780 Physics is absolutely a failure to me, too 
I guess you got a B and 10 As in your mid-year report, huh? I forgot your SAT score, but isn’t SAT score compulsory for US applicants?</p>
<p>So should I even apply for financial aid then? I don’t normally give up hope but I don’t want to wait for a miracle to happen.</p>
<p>There is nothing you can do about the admissions application. So it’s up to you. If the “miracle” (I don’t consider any acceptance to MIT a miracle; they have reasons for that) does happen and you give up on it right now, what you get is a nightmare
Common, just apply. The feeling of waiting and hoping for the next month is certainly memorable :)</p>
<p>The miracle is this: The admission officers somehow know that these three tests did not show my ability and I was having a bad day on all these three dates. Also, the other applicants are not any much better than me.</p>
<p>Calculate the probability.</p>
<p>Don’t be discouraged.</p>
<p>The worst possible thing you could do would be to forgo filling out financial aid forms and then get accepted.</p>
<p>@MrPanda: Okay, so you have a little bit trouble. But is MIT that native not to recognize that scores are just numbers? Why do you have to push it to the extreme?
Now your (I really mean “your”, not a person in general) true ability, I believe, is shown somewhere else. If you get 740 on Math II and 780 on Physics, then you are at the sufficient level to study in the challenging environment in MIT, that’s all they are looking for when requiring you to sit for the SAT or SAT II.
I’m sorry, but I have to be frank: I’m not encouraging you; I’m blaming you for having such stereotype.
Thus, the probability is still no greater than 4% right now (I don’t know why I can leave my anger aside so easily :D)</p>
<p>I’m sorry. Perhaps you are right. I was already very depressed about my life (not academic) for the past week. Now I get these bad news…</p>
<p>… and then overcome it and get delighted
Common. Just try the best you can. You’ll get what is right for you, and thus, trying is worth it. My teacher quoted this in her facebook:
“[…] you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead. (Gilbert, Elizabeth, Eat, Pray, Love, Penguin Group, 2006)”</p>
<p>No. I think I should give up on studying physics and make a living as a guitarist instead. At least physicists don’t get the good girls as far as eye could see. =D</p>
<p>Really? I’m not sure about that. The physics-majored girls in my school are okay or less than okay, but in some other schools, they are pretty Guess you haven’t enjoyed life much :D</p>
<p>@ MrPropapanda: MIT admission is as in chaos theory. Everything happens for a reason, but the logic is so difficult that no pattern can be seen, and it is unpredictable by mere stats / numbers / scores. Keep your head up, MrPropapanda. Chaos means pseudo-random!</p>
<p>@ 12npm12: Pretty physics-majored girls should be no minority in MIT I think?</p>
<p>Girls contribute 50% of MIT population, so I guess you won’t feel alone there anyway :D</p>
<p>Hahahaha you just made my day. So I’m gonna fill up my CSS form by tonight.</p>
<p>Great! Bravo!
Don’t change your mind :D</p>