<p>Hello guys,</p>
<p>How many of you are applying to MIT this year?</p>
<p>Please do enlist and discuss :)</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone!!</p>
<p>And if any of you have specific questions I will try to be around to answer them, though I can’t promise all my time during the holiday season :)</p>
<p>Me! I got deferred EA, so we’ll see what happens in spring</p>
<p>@MITchris</p>
<p>I have one. Does my 630 CR slash my chances of getting in by a lot? XD</p>
<p>sarbaraj101 - </p>
<p>That is a lower score for us, a bit below our 650 target. It doesn’t by any means prevent your admission but it will not be a strength. Are you an international applicant?</p>
<p>Yes, I am an int’l applicant. Sadly, I did not take the TOEFL either (owing to my financial condition and my heavy English course load in A-levels).</p>
<p>sarbaraj101 - </p>
<p>If you can take the TOEFL, that might be good. We do not require a CR for people for whom English is a second language so long as they take the TOEFL. Can you get a fee waiver?</p>
<p>I will have to talk to my Guidance Counselor… hopefully I will get one :)</p>
<p>By the way, I have other question(s):
I have a very heavy course load (perhaps the most in the country at the moment) with 7 A-levels and 3 AS-level, out of which 5 A-levels are taught in the school and the others I have self-studied. I will hopefully have all As or maybe one or two B(s). Will this advantage me in the MIT Application Process? </p>
<p>When I ask others, I get really mixed responses… Some say that it is good to challenge oneself, but I have heard rumors of students getting rejected with a direct attack on the number of subjects taken (from some other colleges).</p>
<p>Secondly, does MIT evaluate all the SAT II grades sent or only 1 Science + 1 Math? What if the other grade (other than M/S) is a bit bad?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>We won’t ding you for taking “too many” good classes. We will receive testimony from your guidance counselor as to the difficulty of your classes and that will help us make our evaluation. </p>
<p>We won’t look closely at your other SAT IIs (besides M + S)</p>
<p>Thank you for the help :)</p>
<p>Is it okay to PM you if I have a question that I do not want to share publicly?</p>
<p>Questions seem to pop out of my head every now and then… lol</p>
<p>When is the deadline of having an interview with the EC? I know that the contact deadline was Dec. 10 (I have already contacted), but we are yet to set a date to meet thanks to the political turmoil.</p>
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<li>Sure, you can PM me, I may not get back right away though, and for simple procedural questions <a href=“mailto:admissions@mit.edu”>admissions@mit.edu</a> is a better bet. </li>
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<p>We don’t have a deadline of that sort per se, but the earlier the better.</p>
<p>I just had a question, one of my hobbies is to do 3d modeling (some of which relates to my interest in engineering, aircrafts) and I was wondering if it would be okay if I sent in some pictures of some of the models I’ve done as supplementary info? I asked my EC during my interview with him and he said I could and it wouldn’t hurt to do so and I just wanted to know what others thought since I think it would add some dimension to my application.</p>
<p>It’ll probably be fine. I did work with violins, but I didn’t send in pictures of the two I made. Mostly because I don’t have access to them.</p>
<p>It seems that the admissions officers are happy to receive supplemental work, but it is by no means necessary.</p>
<p>@SpaceUnion I’m sure 3d modeling will add some “dimension” to your application.</p>
<p>Badum crash. …and that’s my contribution to this thread. :)</p>
<p>Would I be disadvantaged in anyone if I list that I will take the Jan SAT on the application form but end up not taking it?</p>
<p>Will the admission office think I screwed up on it and not sent it or w.e.? Or will they not care at all after I notify them?</p>
<p>By the way, how do I let the admission office know if I end up not taking the Jan SAT?</p>
<p>@MITChris:</p>
<p>In my free time I’ve worked on software, mostly computer game related things. I’ve made a few games, and also written libraries and code that other people (a lot of people from college actually) used in their projects. It involves a lot of math, physics, programming and computer science.</p>
<p>Should I include some information about this ([website](<a href=“http://nikki93.github.com%5Dwebsite%5B/url%5D”>http://nikki93.github.com)</a>) in my application? If so, in which part of it?</p>
<p>(I’ve asked this question before on this forum, but I wanted to use this opportunity to ask an MIT admissions person 
)</p>
<p>@SpaceUnion - </p>
<p>Yes, send in your CAD models as a supplement, or put them up on a website and send us the link. </p>
<p>@TheDude2491 - </p>
<p>Just send us an email. Declining to take the test will not negatively affect your application.</p>
<p>@nikki93 - </p>
<p>I would link to your website in the “supplements” section of the application. You can also use section 14 to describe it (the final question about “is there anything else you want to tell us”), or use different parts of your essay (12a for instance) to tell us about it. Definitely send us the link, and then, if you feel it’s necessary to expound upon it, tell us in whichever way seems best to you.</p>
<p>Oh okay sweet thanks MITChris and others! It would be okay if I just linked to my photobucket album that has my 3d model pictures?</p>
<p>@ MITChris: A lot of my extracurriculars overlap with the non-scholastic and scholastic distinctions. Is it ok to list the activities/accomplishments in both sections? I feel like I’m repeating myself by writing the same thing twice in my application.</p>