<p>Yay one of my evaluations is processed! I guess they actually did make it. </p>
<p>I stole this from a different college forum
Answer these questions while you wait 
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<p>Everything is processed for me except my Eval B… damnit.
To answer napalm:
<p>1) Dallas Area
2) 10/31/12 (yeah…)
3) I had so much stuff with school going on that only my parents read my essays. I wish I had more time.
4) Engineering
5) Some ivies and safeties
6) One of my top few. Money is a issue though.</p>
<p>Just checking out the admissions blogs, I bet there are a bunch of male chess players wondering if Chris LaBounty was reading his app when he wrote the post. I would be freaking out if he had mentioned anything that could’ve been from my app, but I’m a girl, so couldn’t have been. Plus evaluation A isn’t processed yet, so mine isn’t being read.</p>
<p>1) Dallas area as well!
2) 11/1 
3) I worked really hard on it but I felt a bit rushed at the end. Rereading it now though, I’m pretty happy with everything I sent.
4) physics! or maybe something else
5) princeton, gtech, case western, maybe some more ivies
6) Yeah it is at the moment, I haven’t done really any visits yet so I’m not 100% sure though.</p>
<p>eeeeeerrghh just reread my app, found a typo… It’s pretty glaring as well, subject/verb agreement in an essay. -_____-</p>
<p>lucky americans haha I so envy you guys cuz I’m just an Asian international student studying in Canada. I don’t like the fact that MIT only allows U.S applicants for early action 
kinda feel discriminatory. Well best of luck!</p>
<p>Eval A still waiting (I last checked a few days ago, lol), everything else is in!</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: The Peach State
2) When you submitted your application: Halloween
3) How long/hard did you work on your app?: Poured a lot of time into essays, but only worked them in October 2012
4) What do you want to major in? BME
5) What other schools are you applying to? Places similar to MIT, safeties
6) Is MIT your top choice? Yup. I would stop applying if an acceptance came in (:</p>
<p>
It’s not intended to be discriminatory – MIT is only able to admit a small number of international students, and they find that it’s most fair to everyone if they evaluate all the international applicants together in one round.</p>
<p>What is the admission notification experience? Is it simply getting an email directing you to login to find out? Or, is it a FedEx box delivered by Tim the Beaver that erupts into a confetti cannon and a holographic version of the Logarhythms a capella group chanting my name in gangnam style that I am a 2013 frosh? I know the former is kinda plain, but the latter would be even sweeter!!</p>
<p>Roughly 4-7 days before the decisions are released, you’ll find a post on the blogs that says what day and time you can receive your decision.</p>
<p>You’ll head to a site for decisions, login with your MyMIT credentials, and it will be sitting there. Here’s that blog post from last year, posted by Chris on 12/12/2011, to inform students of the 12/17 release date. The post also contains other information on the specifics of accessing the decisions, which you may be interested in:</p>
<p>[MIT</a> EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-ea-decisions-to-be-posted-saturday-12-17-at-1217-pm-est]MIT”>MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>From the post:
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<p>Very excited to hear about my decision to MIT. I’m satisfied with my high school career so far, and hope I can continue learning at MIT next year!</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: Washington State
2) When you submitted your application: 11/1
3) How long/hard did you work on your app?: Spent several weeks compiling info, writing essays, and revising. In short, a long time and a lot of work.
4) What do you want to major in?: BioE
5) What other schools are you applying to?: Univ. of Wash., UCSD, UCB, UCLA, maybe an ivy.
6) Is MIT your top choice? YES.</p>
<p>Hi mollie, your explanation makes sense since MIT international admission is very brutal. However, I wonder why MIT is the only university that doesn’t allow early admission programs for internationals among top universities. For example, Ivy plus, or often known as, HYPSCM, all Ivys and stanford universities have early admission programs for international students. I’m thinking perhaps, MIT international admission is slightly more difficult than others’, but it doesn’t fully explain why only MIT differs from other Ivys and stanford universities in early admission policy. (Just out of curiosity!)</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: Washington State
2) When you submitted your application: 11/1 I think?
3) How long/hard did you work on your app? 2 or 3 months…
4) What do you want to major in? Physics
5) What other schools are you applying to? Caltech, UW, HPS, etc etc
6) Is MIT your top choice? Yeah</p>
<p>
It’s related to that – since MIT is only allowed (by higher-up administrators at the university) to admit about 150 international students per year, and about 4500 apply, the admissions officers feel it is more fair to all international applicants to have only one round.</p>
<p>MIT also does admissions slightly differently from many other schools. Instead of an individual admissions officer being able to admit a student on his or her own, at MIT, all the admissions officers come together and discuss every application before deciding who is admitted. There is a separate round of selection for international students, so all 4500 international applicants are discussed by the admissions officers before about 150 are admitted. Other schools may not have this process, and therefore they might not find it problematic to admit international applicants during both early and regular action rounds.</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: NY
2) When you submitted your application: 11/1
3) How long/hard did you work on your app? I rewrote them all last minute because I felt my original ones sucked.
4) What do you want to major in? course 16
5) What other schools are you applying to? none so far
6) Is MIT your top choice? hell YEAH</p>
<p>Thank you for the explanation, mollie. Admitting only 150 out of 4500 students would require extremely selective measures and discussions. I wish there were international admission statistics for other challenging schools so that students can have a general idea of the level of competition they will encounter.</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: Florida’s Space Coast!
2) When you submitted your application: 10/28
3) How long/hard did you work on your app?: Spent a good month brainstorming about my essay questions and writing rough drafts and then spent about an hour or two every day for a week revising them
4) What do you want to major in?: Chemical engineering
5) What other schools are you applying to?: UF, Univ. of Miami, Harvard, Yale
6) Is MIT your top choice?: Y E S <3</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: Northern California, practically Oregon
2) When you submitted your application: Halloween
3) How long/hard did you work on your app?: I worked on for about a month.
4) What do you want to major in?: Chemical Engineering
5) What other schools are you applying to?: For sure: UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, and Caltech Maybe: Harvard & Columbia
6) Is MIT your top choice?: Without a doubt.</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: Southeastern Michigan
2) When you submitted your application: 10/26
3) How long/hard did you work on your app?: A month and a half
4) What do you want to major in?: BME/Chemical Engineering
5) What other schools are you applying to?: For sure: UMich, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, a couple locals
6) Is MIT your top choice?: Absolutely</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: South Florida
2) When you submitted your application: 10/30, mailed all my stuff on 10/31
3) How long/hard did you work on your app? Did my interview early, and did my essays over 3 weeks, but I was thinking about ideas for them for months.
4) What do you want to major in? Computer Science/Course 6!
5) What other schools are you applying to? Georgia Tech, UF, UA, UCF, possibly Carnegie Mellon
6) Is MIT your top choice? YES! :)</p>
<p>I’m on these forums and on MyMIT/blogs everyday. My evaluations have yet to get updated, but I worked with my teachers and guidance counselor to get them all sent in one packet, so they should all get updated all at once sometime soon. I’m so nervous!!!</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from: Southern California
2) When you submitted your application: 10/23
3) How long/hard did you work on your app? As much as I could between school and sports. Spent a long time thinking of what to write for the essays and a couple of weeks writing and “perfecting” them.
4) What do you want to major in? Mechanical Engineering
5) What other schools are you applying to? UMichigan, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, and UT Austin.
6) Is MIT your top choice? Yes!</p>