<p>I live in Norway, where I am a high school student of an international high school. Academically we follow the IB (International Baccalaureate Organization) program. </p>
<p>What usually happens, and is happening now, is that many US' universities visit us and so we can have interview with people who represent the respective university. And so I was wondering if MIT is coming this year or no (the name of the school is Red Cross Nordic United World College). I know that chances for getting in increase significantly if you have an interview with someone from MIT.</p>
<p>One more question:</p>
<p>Those who are really involved in admission, they probably know how IB system works. The overall maximal grade one can possibly get is 42. Does anybody have any idea what is the minimal required IB-predicted grade to get into MIT. I mean, it might be confidential, but at least give me a clue, because as for now I think I must have 42 (perfect score) to get in.</p>
<p>1) We won’t be coming to Norway this year. I wish we were - one side of my family comes from Scandinavia, and it’s someplace I want to go (and not only to see Dimmu Borgir!!) </p>
<p>2) You can still interview! We have three alumni interviewers in Norway, and if you fill out the part 1, it will hook you up with the one who is closest to you. If you have any problems, email <a href=“mailto:interview@mit.edu”>interview@mit.edu</a>. </p>
<p>3) Actually, the max score on the IB is a 45, but you don’t need that or a 42. But you should take math/sci HLs and try to get 6s and 7s in them and across the board as much as possible. </p>
<p>Indeed, the OVERALL (counting here TOK, EE …) maximal IB grade is 45. </p>
<p>I have few more questions:</p>
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<li><p>Can I keep asking questions here ? (if the answer for question #1 is Negative, then ignore questions #2, #3, #4, #5 …).</p></li>
<li><p>I come from Kosovo (a small NEW country in Europe), but Kosovo is not one of the options for “Country of Citizenship”. As for now I selected Albania, since I’m ethnically Albanian. Is that fine? </p></li>
<li><p>Do I have pay for the interview? If the interviewer lives far away from my place (Norway is not the smallest country in the world), then making her come closer to me or making myself go closer to her, means money. </p></li>
<li><p>Here we do 2 years of IB before we graduate (ie we finish grade 9, 10 back home, and then we come here for IB1(grade 11) and IB2(grade 12)). Before IB, back in my country, I had perfect grades.
But then for some political problems (between my country and China), I could come to school only 3 months later (late November) and this made me to be behind others academically. As a result, I didn’t get very good grades. Though I still got good grades in math. Can this “being late” be a possible excuse for my grades? Will the admission officers consider this, and where can I mention this ?</p></li>
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<h1>5. What are more important, school grades or awards from National/International Math Competitions ?</h1>
<p>1) sure but I can’t always answer them promptly
2) I’ll alert our team that we should put Kosovo in - I don’t think it’s a political statement on our behalf, hah. But yes, go ahead and do what you did, but make sure to mention in your “extra space” that you’re from Kosovo.
3) No - if you can’t arrange to physically meet your interviewer, email <a href=“mailto:interview@mit.edu”>interview@mit.edu</a> and we’ll try to setup Skype or something.
4) just describe the situation and we’ll take it into context
5) both are important. </p>