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<p>Legacy is considered a hook (not at MIT I know) yet many legacies are not accepted. Being a Kennedy-Schwarzenegger would be a hook, yet she was not accepted at BC.</p>
<p>I view hook as being a significant boost, not an automatic in.</p>
<p>And once again, the argument comes down to people not agreeing on what “hook” means. :)</p>
<p>My definition is pretty well in line with Mollie’s, but a decent chunk of C-C would define it as anything that would give a non-negligible boost.</p>
<p>Rune…I know an awful lot of writers who are MIT students/alums, but I’m not sure I know <em>anyone</em> who has contributed to Rune, honestly.</p>
<p>I was just wondering…if you are an athlete, do you think the coach who is recruiting you already know if you got accepted or not? Would the coach tell you prior to Wednesday? Just wondering if the athletes already know if they got in or not…or if the coaches already know…</p>
<p>We were told from the coach he doesn’t know any earlier than the applicants.</p>
<p>MIT does not recruit in the way that you think it does/in the way other schools do.</p>
<p>I think we should just abolish the term “hook.”</p>
<p>The important point for the purposes of this particular discussion is what Mollie said about how being an athlete is no more or less of a hook than being an accomplished musician or artist or whatever.</p>
<p>Being an athlete isn’t any more likely to help you get in than anything else, and this is true for RD and EA.</p>
<p>I was accepted EA. I am certainly not a genius and although I was an athlete, they didn’t know it at the time. (I put my athletic experiences on my resume but didn’t even contact the coach at MIT until CPW. In other words, my application showed no indication that I was any good at the sport I played or if I was even interested in playing it at MIT.)</p>
<p>is there any chance of them bringing back boys ice hockey as a varsity sport? I’ve played for ten years and would like to play in university. Also, if they are bringing it back maybe it would help me get in?</p>
<p>im being recruited by MIT football. the coach has told me he is “fully supporting” my application, yet i really dont know how much weight this holds. Its a shame that there is no slot system, because i will most likely have to accept an offer from Amherst or an ivy before i’l even hear from MIT in april. Wish i applied EA, but I get the feeling that being a recruited athlete does not help so much as opposed to say, an excellent researcher</p>
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<p>This is not the mainstream definition of “hook.” Being an URM is a hook, but most URMs do not get in, which is inconsistent with the notion that they are almost un-turndownable.</p>
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<p>silverturtle, I would not argue that being a URM is a hook, either. </p>
<p>If we want to water down the definition of “hook” so far that it means “something good in your application that could help your chances of being accepted”, then almost everybody has a hook. I would agree, by that definition, that being an athletic recruit at MIT is a hook. But I would also say that participating in research, being good at music, having a close relationship with your recommending teachers, being able to write a great essay, and having a high SAT score are also hooks – and if all of those things are hooks, then hooks are useless because everybody has at least one.</p>
<p>molliebatmit,
My friend from Boston just told me she got accepted. Is this possible?</p>
<p>Not unless she was matched via Questbridge on December 1.</p>
<p>mollie, do you know any sailors at MIT? i spent a lot of my time on the water, sailing…</p>
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<p>Isn’t RSI’s admit rate like, 5%?</p>
<p>I’m a recruited athlete. I hope it helps. I’ll let you know in 19 hours.</p>
<p>Respectfully, Let’s hope we both get in, 10 hours 30 minutes and counting.</p>
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The rate of admission into RSI is low – I meant that applicants to MIT who have done RSI. RSI alums are admitted to MIT at a rate much higher than 5%.</p>
<p>Code H, I knew a few crew people at MIT, but they’ve all since graduated. I graduated in 2006, so the undergrads at MIT now were in high school (and junior high!) when I was there.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I realize that, just saying that since getting in to RSI is even lower anyway, the chance of getting into RSI and that helping you getting into MIT is even lower.</p>
<p>I applied EA to MIT with probably the worst SAT/GPA/SAT II scores than anyone else in the EA application. Sure I won’t get accepted, but I’m an example of someone that shoots for the stars.</p>