Admissions Questions

[differential]

<p>Under activities... I don't know how many hours I put into things. I just know that I did them. How seriously do admissions officers take these number of hours per week and weeks per years? I mean, who even keeps count of these things? And some stuff was like... thinking about stuff, so I wasn't always aggresively coding at my computer, but thinking about stuff at the grocery store or what not.</p>

<p>Also, it doesn't show my Essay B on the preview for section two!</p>

<p>PS: When people ask for chances on this board, I noticed that they list far more than they can put on the MIT application. Why do they do this?</p>

[happyland]

<p>Because they are overachievers =P</p>

[molliebatmit]

<p>Just put your best estimate for the number of hours. As you can imagine, the admissions officers are just trying to get a ballpark figure for the amount of time you spend on each activity -- it's sort of an informal metric for how much a given activity is "worth" to you. </p>

<p>My theory is that chances threads are not about chances -- nobody can give your "chances" to a school like MIT anyway. This is why I avoid chances threads.</p>

[panasonic]

<p>why would anyone avoide chances threads?!?! : ) I love the sarcasm on most of them, lol</p>