Admissions PROCESS

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Hey guys,
I am a sophomore (just becoming one this August) and I had some concerns about college admissions. I have looked around and read stuff and yeah yeah I know: do activities that you love, 2200+ SAT, Rigorous Coursework, good essays/recommendations, lopsidedness, contribute to "diversity". Anyways apart from that, I want to how all of this ties in togather at the end. I have not been able to find anything on this. How do admissions work at MIT. Do they first have a cut out the edges just looking at academics and things, then shave it off further with people who dont show compatibility to MIT, but what about at the end when there is a good 3000 well qualified students.. how do they further that down to 1000. is it playing darts or what... Do they seperate you into ethnic groups and pick their set percentage from there. Example: around 18% hispanics, so they group the hispanics and pick 180 from there after they have shaven off any students who are not qualified? You get the point.. How do they determine the last standing.
Anyways heres my profile, give me comments on what you think (btw, Im not trying to set my life up to get in, thats dumb because I know a lot of ridiculously smart kids from my school that spend all their highschool career building up a resume and did not get in).</p>

<p>Schedule:</p>

<p>Freshman:
Algebra 2 Honors,
Trigonometry(IB)/Team sports (1 semester each),
Geometry Honors,
Biology Honors,
Information Technology (Regular/Requirement),
English I Honors,
Spanish II Honors,
Economics Honors/American Govt Honors</p>

<p>Freshman Summer:
Physics Honors (online)
AP Comp Science (semester 1 - online)
Introduction To Business (College class)</p>

<p>Sophomore:
AP Human Geography
AP World History
Pre-Calc Honors
Chemistry Honors
English II Honors
Spanish III IB (International Bac.)
Engineering I Regular (no Honors available)
Anatonomy & Physiology
AP Comp Science Segment 2 Online</p>

<p>Sophomore Summer:
2-3 college classes ( have not chosen yet, preferably something with business)
AP American History Online</p>

<p>Junior:
AP Calc AB
IB English III
IB Spanish IV
IB Economics
IB Theory of Knowledge/ speech
IB Chemistry
College Class
College Class</p>

<p>Junior Summer:
3 college classes if not accepted into MITES</p>

<p>Senior:
AP Calc BC
IB Chem
IB Psychology
IB English
IB Theory of Knowledge/Speech
AP Biology
College Physics I & II (1 semester each)</p>

<p>After School Activities:
Technology Student Association (president)
Math Team (coach)
Academic Team (no positions/ fun people, and we eat pizza xD)
Basketball Varsity
Track Varsity
Cross Country Varsity
Model UN (Debate Team)
Computer Science Club - I am going to start it next or junior year
Tae Kwon Do (Black belt)</p>

<p>Summer Programs Attending:
University of Florida college reach out program (accepted going this summer)
Florida State University Young Scholars (applying next year)
MITES (applying Junior Year)</p>

<p>Other Things:
I like studying business and techy stuff (youtube videos on cool stuff to do haha)
I like aviation and hope I can fly one day like my grand father and great grandfather
Play Soccer but basketball is in the same season so I do not play for school
Love Boston Celtics - I hope I can get into MIT so I can go watch some games xD
I like watching cop/ court shows like Bones and Franklin and Bash.
Not much time to like anything else haha.</p>

<p>That is basically it, oh Until now Ive had straight A's except one B in my first semester of English I. I got an A in both physics and into to biz this summer. My gpa is 3.95 underweighted,
4.25 weighted. Any more thoughts would be nice. BUTTT, the most important thing is to discuss the admissions process. Oh and my high school is top 100 in the US, and im hispanic (if that comes into play somehow??).</p>

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<p>

You’ve asked this precise question multiple times on this board. Are you still puzzled as to how the process works? </p>

<p>In short, all qualified students are discussed by the admissions committee during selection, which is about two or three weeks of solid meetings to discuss applications. Each person is discussed multiple times by small groups of committee members until a decision can be made on his or her application. Students are not separated by race (or any other factor), and there are no set percentages of any type of students admitted.</p>

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<p>^^ There’s no Affirmative Action in MIT? Didn’t know…</p>

<p>Anyways, I’m pretty sure MIT will not elaborate on the details of the process. And if they don’t, all we outsiders say would basically be like throwing darts.</p>

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<p>While mollie is almost always completely correct, and makes the excellent point that MIT never goes into admissions looking for (say) a bassoon player, or any other category of student. I thought that I needed to clarify one statement that she made.</p>

<p>When she states that

I would note that students are separated into two pools:<br>
American nationals and US Green card holders are admitted in one pool, and
International applicants are admitted in a separate pool. Within each of these pools there is no further separation. </p>

<p>There is for example no Canadian quota, nor any agreed breakdown of students from US states or high schools. Each student is considered on their own merits.</p>

<p>Mollie also makes the excellent point that this is a question that has been asked and answered many times on this board, which has a perfectly functional search facility, as well as on the MIT admissions site, and further that this question has previously been asked BY YOU. You are still quite young (a rising sophomore you say), but an inability to understand these answers does not correllate well with someone who would succeed at MIT. I believe that it is repeated questions that led to Mollie’s frustrations, and hence to her quite uncharacteristic misstatement.</p>

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<p>@melody10511: MIT does practice affirmative action. MIT just doesn’t have quotas.</p>

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<p>

Ack! Yes, of course. I wasn’t even thinking of citizenship – I was thinking of race, gender, state residency, high school, etc. Forgive my sloppy phrasing.</p>