How do I look in collegeville ?

International Students
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<p>Well, I’m not necessarily directing all of this against you, am I? Not all of this is relevant to you, but just know that I seriously disagree with your assessment. I do not know who you are or what you are like, and no one can know that over the Internet, so I’m going to refrain from passing judgment. I DO know that the VAST majority of Indian applicants, even those with the ability to apply to MIT, are NOT as wrapped up in research and what-not as they claim they are. I KNOW this. And America knows this as well. They know about international students (particularly Indians and Chinese) punching up their image to try and stand a chance at American colleges. Don’t you think that hurts ALL Indian applicants?</p>

<p>Bottom line: MIT is nowhere near what you imagine it to be. It is merely another school. And please don’t go down the same line as your good friend AdityaP, who seems to have developed a passion of stalking my posts on CC, and accuse me of being angry at MIT, just because I was rejected, and questioning why I applied there in the first place. When I applied, I really didn’t care where I got in. Why? Because by and large, it does NOT matter. If I didn’t get into MIT, I’d be happy at any of the schools I got into. It’s not the rejection that annoys me. It is the complete opacity of the process, and the hard-headedness and deliberate lies that the admissions team tells in order to placate an ever-growing international applicant pool. I see people here stressed out because there interview was waived. I now know that I should have HOPED that MY interview had been waived. You know why? I got an interviewer (the only one in all of Japan), who I doubt could even remember most of his time at MIT (40 years ago), and whose concluding statement was, 'Well, you SEEM to have the maturity to go to MIT. But please remember that they haven’t taken anyone from Japan for years." WOW. WOW. WOW. The two good things I have to say for that guy is he spared me the cost of having to travel from Osaka to Tokyo, which would have taken one whole day and the equivalent of 15,000 rupees, and he gave me a pretty good idea of how the college admissions process folds out within. This is the way you handle admissions processes? Maybe you just don’t care? After all, what’s 1 applicant to you in a pool of 1,000s? At least Princeton and Cornell both bothered to do face-to-face interviews and treat me to one morning’s worth of orange juice… (and this isn’t a one-time event either; two years ago, a Bangladeshi guy applied from my school, and the interviewer didn’t even BOTHER responding, hmmm, makes me wonder if they’ve already predetermined their acceptance pool?) Try and refute this, if you can.</p>

<p>What about the 6/400? Why are you so worried about the 6/400? Mind your own business. You don’t have to hero-worship them or anything. They’re just people who were at the right place at the right time.</p>

<p>Oh, and you totally did NOT get my sun does not shine jab. It has nothing to do with the Sun shining or not shining, it’s more a reference to a biological orifice. And I prefer cloudy weather anyway, so London’s nothing bad for me at all. Much rather be here for now, than a country facing destruction by taxation in a few months.</p>

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<p>Passion of stalking your posts? Lol. You’ve got to be kidding me. I can’t help it if you hijack every ‘chance me’ post on the Indian thread harping on how the Ivies and MIT deceive internationals. Actually, YOU seem to have developed some sort of passion for bashing almost every University.</p>

<p>Look, I don’t mean to be rude. I have nothing for you, and nothing against you. </p>

<p>But just read what you’ve written with an open mind and tell me it doesn’t seem like you have an obvious bias against MIT.<br>
“My counterparts back at MIT are still stuck on Biology 101, Chemistry 101, Physics 101, and how to “rigorously prove” the derivative of ln(x).” </p>

<p>Read your last post and tell me it doesn’t seem like you’re venting about your perceived injustice. “I now know that I should have HOPED that MY interview had been waived. You know why? I got an interviewer (the only one in all of Japan), who I doubt could even remember most of his time at MIT (40 years ago), and whose concluding statement was, 'Well, you SEEM to have the maturity to go to MIT. But please remember that they haven’t taken anyone from Japan for years.” WOW. WOW. WOW. "</p>

<p>“It is the complete opacity of the process, and the hard-headedness and deliberate lies that the admissions team tells in order to placate an ever-growing international applicant pool.” Nobody promised anyone anything. International Admission to MIT has always been cutthroat and extremely competitive, and MIT has always maintained that stance.</p>

<p>You can argue that most Indians who have gotten in to MIT have some sort of International Olympiad medal. But that doesn’t mean MIT “requires” every international student to posses a medal. So, it’s unrealistic to expect MIT to explicitly post something saying, “If you don’t have a medal, don’t even bother applying.”</p>

<p>You also can’t make generalizations like Indians apply to MIT only because of its prestige’
or something like that. Okay, there will be someone applying to MIT because it has a global image, but you know that these applicants haven’t done their homework if they’re only applying to MIT.</p>

<p>Acceptances and rejections to most ‘prestigious’ Universities seem somewhat random or arbitrary. Sometimes the dice rolls your way; sometimes it doesn’t.</p>

<p>Now let’s just leave it that and end this conversation.</p>