Is research really THAT important?

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<p>@bruno123 and molliebatmit: Thank you very much for your useful advices! I will do that when I add my paper to it. I also intend to rush the editors a bit to see if they can give me the result before deadline, but I guess it won’t work.</p>

<p>Anyway, regards to the matter of taste again, does anyone know if the admissioners will consult an expert in a specific field at their schools(in my case is math department) to judge on something that is not very common for high school students to do and admissioners basically don’t know much about? Or they just simply don’t take it heavily into account of notice? I regards to my problems published/selected on journals and contests as well as my talk at math conference, which I know will be strange to admissioners because not many previous applicants do these things(well I know publication as an article is more impressive than problems, but we don’t give a clear definition of a word “publication”)</p>

[molliebatmit]

<p>As far as I know, they’ll consult faculty if they’re able, but it’s not always possible within the timeframe of reading. There are also a few faculty members who help read and select applications.</p>

<p>But most of the admissions officers are MIT alums, so they do have a strong technical background. And although it’s not the norm for applicants to have papers published, they have no doubt seen it before, and they will know what it means.</p>