<p>So we can keep it out of our decisions thread.</p>
<p>is your user name supposed to be satirical?</p>
<p>I’m white and I was rejected.</p>
<p>There is at least one person who was African American and was accepted.</p>
<p>Ergo, MIT discriminates against white people.</p>
<p>My given name is Christian. So yes, it’s a pun-type thing.</p>
<p>@hyphoper^^your logic is flawed. lol you’ve proved neither correlation nor causation.</p>
<p>I think hyphoper was joking.</p>
<p>I like to think that my personal spot went to a pilgrim who came over on the Mayflower who invented a nuclear reactor.</p>
<p>see: Dude500</p>
<p>@thoss91 - I took AP Statistics. I can tell you for a fact that one case out of 16,000 proves racial discrimination.</p>
<p>Edit: Yes, I am joking</p>
<p>I’m Asian, so it’s no wonder that I was rejected.</p>
<p>@ christian soldier. I know right!! what chance do most us stand against him/her?</p>
<p>I just had to add this:</p>
<p>The students MIT accepts are accepted for a reason. Academics aren’t what define a college. Honestly, with some of the posts the rejected applicants are making, I am glad they were rejected. I would personally be embarrassed for MIT if those were the students making up the class of 2014.</p>
<p>Because MIT never accepts asians…</p>
<p>
Yeah, stay classy.</p>
<p>All I’m going to say is this: </p>
<p>There is no easy way in to MIT, no matter what color, age, gender, socioeconomic status you are. </p>
<p>No one “lost spots” to anyone else. We don’t have quotas. We consider applications in a holistic context that looks at the entirety of your application, taking in to consideration every aspect of your story as an applicant. </p>
<p>And that pretty much is all I have to say about race and MIT admissions.</p>
<p>In all honesty, I think we’re all disappointed, but is it really that big of a deal in the long run?</p>
<p>Or that they’ll decide if our best is good enough later.</p>
<p>but the ivyhopeful guy-if he indeed is real, he lied on his app so he would get in. mitchris and mollie: what message does that send to applicants who were waitlisted/rejected/will apply next year? I could’ve played up the fact that i live in a ghetto and my family is poor but i didn;t because i didn’t want anyone saying that i got in because of that. should i have done otherwise and downplayed my academic and extracurricular strengths and hyped those up? but in the end, i get it. life sucks and we have to move on.</p>
<p>I think that’s a rather sizeable “if”. On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.</p>
<p>thoss91 - </p>
<p>I don’t know the post you’re referring to. But again, there is no one factor that gets someone in to MIT, and it’s definitely not in your interest to lie.</p>
<p>If someone lied to get into MIT they probably won’t be successful anyways.</p>