<p>Is there anything you will do / have done since your deferral?
(e.g. sending in extra recommendation letters, trying to win as many competitions as you can, starting new stuff, etc)</p>
<p>most deferalls that get accepted dont send in any additional info i believe...</p>
<p>Really, slak? I'd be interested to see any stats, if you have them. </p>
<p>I have requested a junior college chemistry teacher (who has taught at MIT for four years) to provide a letter of recommendation. </p>
<p>I will be submitting an essay which requests MIT to change my declared major to MechE on an Energytrack with a minor in Bioengineering (instead of a major in BioE). I discuss my perenial curiosity for how things work and my practical approach to improving them (my inventions).</p>
<p>I'm also considering sending an additional essay on my experiences in Bangalore, India. I discuss my difficulty in Inorganic Chemistry and Modern physics (students in Bangalore had a two year advantage over me). Then I discuss how collaboration, above competition, allowed me to suceed. </p>
<p>I'm not sure if this is overkill. Then again, I've heard of people sending boxes of stuff.</p>
<p>I got my Hall Director to send in a rec. (I planned to do this originally, but forgot). I also wrote an extra essay, as the two I set with EA app didn't really portray 'me'. Also sent in a mathematical formula that I derived (post EA app) that finds a best fitting surface (surface, not function, so it can do spheres) for 'N' points in 'n' dimensions in the form of a Kth degree polynomial. I also sent in a clipping of a newspaper article that interviewed me and a friend about a research project we're working on with some other people. Hopefully it's not overkill...</p>
<p>nm i think i got that quote mixxed up with supplementary material, but go by the rule of thumb of if it gives them a better idea of you, send it!</p>
<p>I was deferred last year, and I'm now a freshman at MIT. I sent in a 1.5-page update that listed things in bulleted form. I also included two research abstracts and a large topographic map that I made. Unlike in my essays, I was very up-front about wanting to come to MIT.</p>
<p>could you please explain how you did your "research abstracts" in a little detail and what it was on? thanks. :)</p>
<p>I sent a 1 1/2 pages with updates and changes to the ea app.</p>
<p>I know a deferred student last year that didn't send anything and still got in RA, so don't think that it is a requirement</p>
<p>interesting ideas. Idk about extra recommendation, but I think i'll send in more stuff; it can't hurt for sure.<br>
Anyone sending in extra recordings, etc, or is that not even considered anymore?</p>