<p>will getting 3 B/B+s and 4 As be a cause for rescind?</p>
<p>no, absolutely not.</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>I got 4 B’s and 2 A’s my last term of high school. (Note, I usually have 5 A’s and 1 B.)</p>
<p>Don’t get C’s or lower would be my suggestion.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply, collegealum and piper: you guys wouldn’t be from a well known family or have donated a lot of money to MIT, would you? just wonderin</p>
<p>I was at the Meet the Bloggers thing on Friday night and may or may not have heard an admissions officer say, “Don’t get C’s, especially in technical classes.”</p>
<p>Not at all. I didn’t know what MIT was until the end of junior year :D</p>
<p>MIT is a meritocracy.</p>
<p>^Nothing in this world is purely meritocratic, and MIT admissions certainly has an agenda beyond picking the most qualified applicants.</p>
<p>But yeah, B’s should not be cause for admissions being rescinded.</p>
<p>Being qualified is not at all the same as merit. You can’t be “more qualified.” Your stats either qualify you or they don’t. After that, MIT looks at things like breaking molds, going beyond what was just given to you. If you’re judging merit by just academics, you’re doing it wrong.</p>
<p>There is not some threshold at which you can say “oh, these people look okay academically, now we’re going to totally ignore what they’ve done above and beyond and look at only other things instead.” I am not saying that academics are the only thing that is important in choosing students to accept, but arbitrary things like race or gender (which, by the way, are not always an indicator of adversity; there are certainly minorities who have had just as many opportunities as white or Asian kids, and they do get the same benefit from affirmative action as do the students that actually went through hardships), or other things out of a person’s control such as whether their parents attended the same university, should not play a role in the admissions process (and regardless of whether or not you want to believe it, <em>not</em> everyone that gets in to MIT or any other school is qualified. And no, I am not saying that only unqualified minorities get in, there are unqualified white males that get in too. And I am certainly not saying that all minorities that get in are unqualified, as some of them are totally deserving in their admissions. Yes, the majority of the accepted students deserve to be admitted, but it would be delusional to claim that all of them were selected in a meritocratic fashion.</p>
<p>Um like seriously guys do we need to have this debate.</p>
<p>@intelligentimp / anyone else that has this question: Don’t get Cs and you’ll be fine. Straight Bs are also fine. Don’t worry about it and have an awesome rest of your senior year.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>This is a pointless argument, but as someone who <em>goes to MIT</em>, I can tell you that everyone I’ve met here is definitely qualified, and deserves to be here. Sometimes, of course, at first glance you don’t see it, but everyone has some special talent, some quality, or some passion that makes you realize that they do, in fact, deserve to be here. And in case you haven’t heard it 15 times already, <em>LEGACY IS NOT A FACTOR IN MIT ADMISSIONS.</em></p>
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<p>Um, no. (MIT doesn’t bend admissions for VIP families or donor’s children.) My answers were not based on my own personal experiences, but I’ve seen enough people ask this question to know that B’s won’t get you rescinded anywhere.</p>