<p>hey! im applying to sloan and want to know if my essay topic is okay or too bleh... it's about racism BUT it the incident was sorta mundane. i wrote it in an artistic style, and it sounds fine, but i really want to go to sloan (if i dont get into wharton, haha) and dont want the essay to bif my chances.</p>
<p>They say the essay is only "considered", so it shouldn't hurt you too much, but the way I look at it, you have two options: you can write a fairly decent essay, or you have a chance to let them really see what a great and wonderful person you are- mature, intelligent, outgoing, the whole deal. So you decide, keeping in mind that the essays are the only time they hear your voice.</p>
<p>Read this thread here about essay weight. Ben Jones knows what he's talking about. </p>
<p>(PS: You apply to MIT, not to Sloan. Everyone admitted to MIT is admitted in one big pool.)</p>
<p>wait... i think you apply to sloan. they ask for which department you are applying for on the app... and they better cause there is this girl at my school who is being an ass and wants to go to harvard, WILL go to harvard, and is applying to MIT anyways. gawd! she kick all of you all's out of the water she is so good.</p>
<p>Two things of note:</p>
<p>1) You apply to MIT, period. You can declare in course 15 (Management) and get to Sloan afterwards, but you don't apply directly to Sloan.
2) That thing you filled out doesn't really affect your admissions chances. It can provide some context for the rest of your application, but ~half of MIT students don't major in what they wrote down in that field, and the adcom knows it.</p>
<p>they ask that question, but it has no affect on your admission.</p>
<p>I'd just like to add one more voice to the chorus that you definitely apply to MIT rather than an individual school.</p>
<p>All freshmen are considered "undeclared" until they declare a major in mid-April of their freshman year.</p>