<p>I have potential.</p>
<p>Sure, I haven't done any research so far, attended RSI/MITES, owned/run a multi-million dollar business, discovered inexhaustible alternative energy sources, had element number 119 named after me, or conquered gravity...</p>
<p>But think of what I CAN do.</p>
<p>That's one way to look at it.</p>
<p>well pebbles, you have amazing score though. i am in the same boat except i have crappy sat scores -0-</p>
<p>dreaming, luckily MIT knows what a flawed indicator the SAT really is. don't feel too bad about it :)</p>
<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2003/cds2003.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2003/cds2003.html</a></p>
<p>Scroll to "Percent of first-time, first-year (freshman) students with scores in each range"</p>
<p>there's still hope :)</p>
<p>heh, look at the Stats on the mymit page...</p>
<p>very disheartening.</p>
<p>Keep in mind 25% of the admitted applicant pool has lower scores than the low end of the range posted on myMIT.</p>
<p>That's a good page. </p>
<p>If I get into MIT, I'm considering going to another country for a year and studying something there... a LEAST learning the language... it says you can postpone enrollment for up to 2 years. Neat!</p>
<p>Or, you can enroll on-time and study abroad for a year ... though the Cambridge-MIT Exchange takes you to England, which isn't too helpful unless you consider "UK English" a separate language. :D</p>
<p>There are other programs for other countries...if you're interested I'll go find the links (most in Western Europe).</p>
<p>Haha, when I asked my interveiwer he said, "You can postpone enrollment up to one year... I read that in the MIT brochure this morning... so I think that'd be OK." And I thought, "D'oh!" because that's one of the things you're NOT supposed to ask (something that's in the brochure...) But when I asked, "Is it possible to take a year or a half of a year off to study in another country before going to MIT?" I meant things like what you're talking about. Which apparantly exist. Nobody told me... except for you!</p>
<p>No, don't go running about for my sake, I think I can handle a goodle search on my own... :)</p>
<p>:) ... I do recall reading on the MIT admissions site before it was remodeled that a deferral of enrollment up to one year is allowed. So, I'm not sure how accurate the "2 year" figure is in the Common Data Set linked above. Maybe it's technically allowed for two years but not encouraged, so they don't advertise it? Hmm...</p>
<p>For the benefit of other readers:</p>
<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/</a>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/mit-france/study.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/mit-france/study.html</a>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/career/www/students/studyabroad.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/career/www/students/studyabroad.html</a></p>
<p>LSA, you're THE expert on MIT admission. well btw considering my SAT verbal score, if i get in, i will be one of about 2% of students in MIT. that's kinda cool i guess -_-</p>
<p>I don't claim to be an expert on anything. I've just spent a lot of time researching the school and am happy to share the fruits of my efforts with others.</p>
<p>My verbal is 90 points higher than math, so I'll be an oddball too :P</p>
<p>Dude. Me too. It's like we're soulmates. </p>
<p>And on the CC archives, there's a link in the MIT board to an article that has a link to an article which states that a 700 on math is a "competitive" score. So that makes me feel better.</p>
<p>650 and up is considered competitive - it's funny because the only place I saw 700 listed was an MIT Technology Review article. The official (?) admissions office line is "650+"... though I sincerely doubt one would be admitted with 650/650 and nothing else to distinguish oneself. :D</p>
<p>650+ was mentioned by Lorelle at an info session I attended, and it was also in the FAQ of the previous version of the admissions site (before August or so).</p>
<p>(Note that "competitive" simply would mean your app isn't thrown out without even a cursory glance ... it certainly wouldn't be a competitive score in relation to the rest of the applicant pool)</p>
<p>In the article they said they have a "triage" process, and everyone who isn't competitive is cut out in the 1st round. So knowing V-90 is competitive was nice...</p>
<p>Yep. I read the bit about triage too - have you seen the scanned image of the E-3 card and the various blanks and fields on it? The triage section has "competitive" and "not competitive" checkboxes with justification checkboxes below it, like "bad grades", "undistinguished", "average", etc. It's an interesting photo if you haven't seen it already.</p>
<p>can u post the E3 card you have seen?</p>
<p>I haven't one big enough to make it out.</p>
<p>sure... hmm, where to put it that doesn't have my WHOIS data readily available... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>hang on, i'll find a spot.</p>