<p>I'm just wondering what it takes to be accepted to MIT as a white male... or should the entire idea of attending MIT just be pushed aside? Undoubtedly the requirements are different based on skin color (general ethnicity) or gender. It would be super if MIT could somehow figure out how to accept more and still provide a quality education.</p>
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<p>… false. Though you sound like you’re ■■■■■■■■ anyway.</p>
<p>Not ■■■■■■■■ at all. I definitely know from experience that URM females definitely have it “easier” than others. I am just wondering about the chances for a white male, with no disrespect intended, because I am not focusing on anything but the chances for a white male. Thanks.</p>
<p>My husband is a white male from a middle-class family in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>He was accepted with what would now be an 1840 on the SAT: 710M/690V/450W.</p>
<p>I’m wondering more about current acceptance. I certainly believe historically that MIT accepted a number of white males, but believe that has changed considerably over time.</p>
<p>Class of 2007. Not so historical.</p>
<p>There are white males at MIT, so just because you’re a white male doesn’t mean you’ll get rejected.</p>
<p>I don’t personally know of a single white male that has been accepted to MIT. I know one that has been rejected. I also happen to know of three girls who got in, two Asian and one African American. Use these three data points any way you wish, I am not going to bother implying anything here (I don’t care anymore).</p>
<p>I was under the impression that white and Asian males make up pluralities at MIT. Just saying.</p>
<p>I personally don’t know of anyone who’s been accepted to MIT - take that as you wish. :)</p>
<p>I agree with Renais. This is ridiculous. Being white doesn’t mean anything. Worry about all the other things that you can actually control.</p>
<p>Apparently this wasn’t a good thread to start and I have not expressed myself well. I apologize. Never mind my attempt to try to figure out something. I do hope that people realize however that MIT (and many other universities) are NOT affirmative action blind!</p>
<p>Again my apologies… I’ll go crawl back under my rock.</p>
<p>I’m a current student at MIT, and I don’t know a single white male.</p>
<p>^ Are you saying they’re all taken? ;)</p>
<p>I have two MIT undergraduates staying in my house tonight: one male, one female, both white. Neither is single.</p>
<p>MIT undergrads spend much of their time indoors and don’t get much sunlight. If they admitted white people, by graduation time they would be an albino, which is dangerously unhealthy.</p>
<p>Many of the non-white admits become white anyway after a few years at MIT as they become paler and paler due to the lack of sunlight.</p>
<p>Yes, Piper… BY ME :P</p>
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<p>My husband is a white male from a middle-class family in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>He was accepted with what would now be an 1840 on the SAT: 710M/690V/450W.
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<p>It’s not cool to mislead. There’s a huge additional credential that you’re withholding, and it placed him in a special admission category of the kind defined in MITChris’ recent posting. </p>
<p>Apparently your husband is an example of MIT assigning a high value to test scores: with scores that low, huge extras are (on average) needed. Concerning the admission hopes of white males, the question would be whether a URM or female with those scores would have needed to bring as much of that to the table. His admission was under Marilee Jones whose repeatedly stated policy was to admit all minority applicants who passed the threshold of being “qualified”.</p>
<p>Oh, please. Since you know so much about it, what exactly was Mollie’s husband’s extra impressive criteria?</p>
<p>Your comment doesn’t even make any sense. “He was admitted under Marilee Jones, who lowered the bar for minority applicants, so that’s why the middle class white guy got in!” Huh?</p>
<p>Go be inflammatory somewhere else.</p>
<p>I am also curious as to what my husband’s additional outstanding credentials were.</p>
<p>He was fairly garden-variety in MIT’s pool – valedictorian of an unimpressive public school, varsity cross-country and track athlete, did well in another sport (freestyle skiing; not offered at MIT), liked to build rockets in his free time. No math competitions, no research, a normal number of math/science APs.</p>
<p>I mean, I can also talk about plenty of other white males who were at MIT with me. But I don’t know most of their application stuff the way I know my husband’s.</p>