<p>**Decision: REJECTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section):M700 cr+wr(low)
[</em>] SAT IIs:mII 780 chem 720 phys 690
[<em>] ACT:no
[</em>] GPA:7.8/10( if converted to ABCDF scale, it 's B)
[<em>] Rank:1/54
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app:chief artist for class magazine in grade 10, class representative in some school games
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: free English n physics tutor
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses):how i failed the entrance exam b4 grade 10( unfairly) n then change my point of view on failure.(No body read it 4 me).
[</em>] Teacher Recs:
- phys teacher: a lot of excellent praises.telling i reached college level in physics on my own. Yet, he also noted that i am a bit haughty(?) n careless
- eng teacher: she said i didn’t work hard 4 her subject n i “sometimes” made my teachers angry because of my extraloud debates with ‘em. many brilliant praises though.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: (my counselor is in fact my head teacher) really good, there was no criticism. she even mentioned the bad relationship i had with my math teacher caused by my straightness.
[</em>] Applied on:1/1/2009
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:Vietnam
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):semi-public, deemed bad by many ppl(n even me sometimes)
[<em>] Ethnicity:asian
[</em>] Gender:f
[li] Supplementary: abilities 4 art, chess + chinese chess, crafting… i even stated dat i can ride bikes without needin’ to hold handle bars. i also told them 'bout the photo album i handmade 4 my friend.(electromagnetic induction was used in it)[/li][/ul]**General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: **</p>
<p>u most probably say my stats is terrible afta u read the above , right?
well, in my school, grade deflation is much greater than how it can b elite schools in the same province.I had some problems with my family since the second semester in grade 10. besides, most teachers never really give students fair grades(4 example, even my phys teacher,who is hired from the most elite school in my province, assumed i fabricated the numbers n data i wrote in my lab reports just because he knew most of my classmates did that.as a result, he gave me shabby marks.damn, i’m a wannabe-physicist so how could i need to do such a thing!n my maths: 7.2/10! how low. my math teacher,who is also hired, very rarely let us see the test papers. n i could only be speechless). But i just couldn’t freely tell MIT adcom that such things do happen in my school 'coz my school couldn’t b more low-reputationed. Perhaps, MIT adcom could never understand that!
SAT: no book reviewed, no course taken,i only read old-fashioned books 'coz my family is really poor even compared to applicants in my country.To tell the truth, i earned money 4 the tests n application since grade7(unknowingly though). I took both types only once(n late, too- sat1 in jan).Bah, i was sick continuously 3 days b4 n on the Jan test date,really hungry on SAt 2 phys. i had to choose SAT 1 instead of toefl 'coz toefl ibt is much more expensive.</p>
<p>Awards: many in grade 9. 1 school-leveled in grade 11. none in grade 12 ‘coz in grade 11, i learned that the manager of dept of edu n trainin’ in my province doesn’t really approve of students in non-elite schools taking high-leveled competitions as i asked 4 such a privilege once.I also could hardly tell adcom this.</p>
<p>I knew I had to prove to MIT adcom dat i could use english fluently. I told my EC dat I watched MIT ocw vid easily. but once again, dat might not reach adcom. my interview was real good though i couldn’t say all i needed to say.
At 1st, i thought MIT at least would put me in waitlist. But da fact is…well, i guess either MIT did not read my app carefully 4 some reasons like my teachers’s writing were bad etc or they did but they dared not take risk by admittin’ an extremely distant student who had such normal/bad records.if it’s truly da 2nd case, MIT kinda fears risks—> lose some respect! 
I assume i will b rejected by the rest of those school i applied to ‘coz i ‘ve always deemed MIT the school whose applicants’ contexts r considered most carefully. Hence, this may b my 1st n also last comments on this site.
In general, congrats to those who got in. wish u shared with me some 4tune tho’.(ah, i really dont mean u got in merely by luck). n get over this with me, mates who r in da same situation.
Still, love MIT. hope i’ll b there afta my transfer application next yr.</p>
I just hope I can afford to go to MIT.</p>
