<p>I'm Asian, and I'm not a brain geek. I'm more of the athletic type. Also, I'm applying as international. And in that pool, there are going to be a lot of people with high stats and more impressive ECs than me. Is it reasonable to assume that being a non-geek actually plays to my advantage because MIT might try to not only diversify their international pool's ethnicity, but also its brain vs brawl diversity???</p>
<p>brawl???</p>
<p>if you play sports and get recruited, maybe. I can't see why else lower stats would ever help you. O.o</p>
<p>Most MIT students are "brain geeks". Many are also athletic types. MIT doesn't have to choose one or the other.</p>
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<p>That's my question. Do they go all geeks or do they hold off on some of them and let some and let some athletes (non-recruited) get in in order to mix it up. Again this is the international pool, and again, there's a lot of people with amazing stats (more so than the regular pool). I mean if international students are so much more competitive academically, would the admission officers be able to resist accepting all of them and leaving anyone with less than that out of the acceptance range?</p>
<p>PS, i disagree that one has to be recruited in order for admission officers to care about people's passion in sports.</p>
<p>they ignore what you are and they look at what you like.
Like my friend is a physics olympiad semifinalist and INTEL finalist, etc.
But he is also a national athlete andplays for the US,
this is just proof you cant catergorize anyone</p>
<p>Ougnala, I think that you are throwing in an unnecessary word. You say " ... if international students are so much more competitive ACADEMICALLY..." [caps added]</p>
<p>I think that misstates it. International applicants are more competitive. They are not more competitive academically. With the highly competitive pool, MIT does not change what they are looking for in any way. They have always stated, and they stand by the fact, that they will accept someone with slightly lower scores who is a better match for the MIT environment. That being said, when you are only admitting 3.9% of international applicants, you often do not have to choose between the athlete, the artist, or the academically impressive. You take the athletic, artistic, academically impressive candidate.</p>