Hello dear applicants awaiting their decisions. I’m an international student who was accepted to session 1 at MIT. I’ll post my stats the same way as @shanghailover.
Grade: Junior, studying at a boarding school in the US.
GPA: 3.84 UW, not really sure what my weighted is.
Country of citizenship: Kazakhstan (might have been a major factor of my application)
EC’s:
Competed a lot in math competitions, so I showed the main emphasis on them on my video:
Went to HMMT 2018 (part of a national team), HMMT 2019 (school team); bronze medalist in “International Mathematical Kangaroo” in Paris, France (2014); took part in Euclid Math Contest, achieved the 25% of the best participants (2018); went to a number of regional math competitions that are not that significant;
Founder of an engineering club back in Kazakhstan;
Founder of a charity club, raised 2000$ for the children in orphanages;
“The Pride of the School-2018” award winner;
Awarded participation in FISE’s United Space School in the summer of 2018;
Was interviewed to describe my experiences at the NASA JSC for Kazakh internet-journal;
Completed a 1-month long summer IT internship;
Finalist in Kazakhstan’s well-known hackathon in which I and the team presented an AR app;
Those are all the EC’s I showed on my application and the ones that I included in my application video. By the way, if you want to check it out, I’ll leave the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR7soUrSPvE (My English is not the best there, so don’t judge strictly)
The interview was not hard at all, it reminded me of a casual conversation with a friend you have not seen for a while, so I would not worry.
I hope the stats will help the students wondering about their chances and the future applicants applying to Launch next years. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!
I haven’t received a email requesting a interview yet oof. What is the email address of the sender of the email to request a interview? It might be in my spam folder lol.
For those who did regular decision this year and already got an email for an interview or had one, can you tell me when you submitted your application?
I was thinking of choosing Peri as an interviewer too. Could you please tell me the types of questions that she asked? Thanks! (I don’t think I can PM on here)
I also applied RD but didn’t get an interview request…I’d love to know when everyone who applied RD submitted their apps & how many weeks later they got an interview request!
Guys how long does it take to get the decision after the interview? It’s been almost a week for me and I haven’t received a decision while other applicants seem to have gotten it earlier. Does that mean I’m rejected?
