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Pretty scary: nuclear physicists by day, cheerleaders by night!
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Not so scary -- I mean, at least we have a fundamental understanding of the physics behind our stunts, right? :)</p>
<p>And I was actually not just any MIT cheerleader. I was the captain!</p>
<p>molliebatmit-So if a semi-amazing (again, we're in NY, not TX) cheerleader applicant (with 2300 SATs -this is hypothetical) sent the MIT cheer team a DVD of her cheering, any chance the team would watch it and tell the admission office this girl must be admitted? And, more importantly, would admiss office care?</p>
<p>As someone who was also involved with the admissions office, I can tell you that the cheerleading squad has absolutely zero pull with admissions at MIT -- we're just a student-run club sport. (And even the varsity sports have very little pull with admissions -- talent in, say, baseball isn't considered automatically superior to talent in science competitions in MIT admissions, and often it's the other way around.)</p>
<p>The squad absolutely loves to have fabulous people, but we do all of our recruiting after the new class is admitted.</p>
<p>George W Bush cheered at Andover. I'm guessing that wasn't the biggest factor for Yale admissions though.
Bush</a> Cheerleader Picture - Bush As A Cheerleader</p>