<p>I am an international student gonna finish my undergrad in EE soon. I am applying in MIT for M.S. admission. Please give me some suggestions so that I can prepare my application package successfully. </p>
<p>My GPA : 3.95/4.00
Publications : Three international conference papers.</p>
<p>I don't have any professor who is trained at MIT or have link with any MIT prof to recommend for me. But I can get three great reco from my department and my thesis supervisor likes me a lot. I have spent immense amount of time in browsing MIT labs and ongoing research. I can highlight my research goal and objective which is related with the research going on in MIT now and I have found some prof working in this field. So I decided to highlight all of these in my SOP. I discussed with my professors and the recommendation will corroborate the statements and objectives mentioned in the SOP. </p>
<p>Thats all about SOP and Reco. MIT EECS department doesn't want GRE scores. So I am not sending it and I don't need TOEFL. </p>
<p>Please give me some suggestions and advice. I am still struggling with preparing all these stuffs. Am I really worth for MIT !!! Is there anything else I can highlight in my application package which will put some extra weight ?</p>
<p>Please leave some comments/suggestions or advice.</p>
<p>You’ll never know if you could get in if you don’t try. And no, you don’t need any direct connections to MIT. You do need stellar recommendations, solid academics, and research experience, all of which you seem to have.</p>
<p>Thanks. Thats why I am applying… All of my friends are saying not to apply ! According to them it will be just wastage of money !! </p>
<p>I have good academics, research and publications. </p>
<p>I believe I will get stellar recommendation but the thing which is bothering me is, my professors (who will recommend) don’t have any connection with MIT and they are not GLOBALLY RENOWNED. BUT they know me and I have spent time with them. They know what I am capable of and I believe they are gonna highly recommend me. </p>
<p>I am in doubt about it because I read in may blogs and graduate admission forums that a recommendations prominent professors who has good liaison with MIT or renowned globally is a MUST to crack the MIT admission committee.</p>
<p>I think it’s a misconception that the only way to get into Harvard and MIT is “knowing someone.”</p>
<p>Yes, recs from people who were trained at MIT or connected in someway are amazing, but people who are talented get in all the time on their own without a connection. You’re obviously very talented and have a great application. </p>