<p>Did anyone get admitted to MIT without an interview?</p>
<p>The stats jump up from 9% admitted without an interveiw to 22% admitted with.</p>
<p>Darn it!</p>
<p>Anyways, now that I missed the deadline, can I contact the admission office and still contact an EC..?</p>
<p>They should have sent you your EC's info after you sent in part one. Also if you log onto MyMIT and go to application tracking, your EC's info is on the side.</p>
<p>While we're all waiting ... Marilee Jones, dean of admissions, was a Guest Speaker at a recent Undergrad Association meeting. It's a quick read on the first page (and top of second page):</p>
<p>(And just in case somebody hasn't already read this article by Marilee from a couple years ago)</p>
<p><a href="http://fsilg-task-force.mit.edu/newkid.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://fsilg-task-force.mit.edu/newkid.pdf</a></p>
<p>That James kid has posted on CC under the name Misterpeachy.</p>
<p>I don't think it's the same guy. MisterPeachy came to mind because they've both had incredible backgrounds like that, but I don't think it's the same.</p>
<p>I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Hey, when I clicked on this, thread, it had 1600 views.</p>
<p>leet.</p>
<p>What do Imao and LMFAO stand for?</p>
<p>How do you know those interview reports are real? They sound fake to me. I HOPE they're fake. LOL...</p>
<p>lmao = laughing my a s s off
lmfao = laughing my f__ing ass off</p>
<p>Ahh, I see. Thanks breadpitt! I love Brad Pitt by the way.</p>
<p>We don't know they're real. We can only assume. :)</p>
<p>MIT really does look at personality as if they consider grades and scores as a secondary factor. This guy I know got admitted last year with 1400, 3.7 GPA. But he has taken most rigourous courses (like 10 IB's I think) and had very diverse experience. He worked at a hospital, traditional chinese arcupunture(is this correct spelling?) place, won a regional snowboarding competition, and wrote this brilliant essay.</p>
<p>He told me that there was another guy who applied a year before who had 1560 SAT, perfect GPA, and near perfect SATII scores despite that he came to the US just 4 years ago. He said that the dude practically memorised the whole dictionary staying up late till 3 everyday. But consequently, he didnt have many EC's and hes results were dreadful. All rejects from Ivies except Cornell.</p>
<p>I'm not a fan of this competitive/noncompetitive stuff. . .if you pay the admission fee and do all the work for an application, the least they can do is read the whole thing and take everything in to account. To do otherwise is simply unjust.</p>
<p>Aw well. . .does anyone know if SAT II's are part of the competitive/noncompetitive decision? I really hope not. . .</p>
<p>they DO look at the whole application before they mark u competitive or noncompetitive...prety sure 2 people read it too</p>
<p>Oh. . .guess I misread something. . .well, that's good. I really couldn't imagine them doing it any other way.</p>
<p>The "competitive" or "not competitive" is marked in the triage process by one person. This person gives your file a quick read to look for possible characteristics that could make you a good candidate. About half of applications are thrown out in this process - but I don't know that this happens in EA. I haven't gotten a straightforward answer on how the "not competitive" works in EA.</p>
<p>oh man, those interviews are definitely inspiring some nervousness, especially since i had a pretty strange interview. a couple of my asian girl friends and i all had the same interviewer, and we compared notes afterward and realized that he asked every one of us 1) if we had a boyfriend and 2) if we were allowed to date. i got the strangest question of all: "are your parents arranging your marriage?" </p>
<p>wonder what's going to go in my interview file... gah!</p>
<p>WTF, doublespresso. W. T. F. </p>
<p>I hope you punched him in the face. Or something... did he think that if you were too "traditional" then you shouldn't be at MIT? How does your sexuality, your relative promiscuity, have ANYTHING to do with anything? I really doubt he would ask any Indian/Asian male that, especially about the arranged marriages thing.</p>
<p>I am vicariously angry, unless it wasn't that big of a deal for you. And I guess I can see how whether or not you are betrothed would matter to your college experience, but I definitely don't think it was appropriate at all for an EC/adcom to be considering it in admissions.</p>