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<p>yuppers :p</p>
<p>BTW… it’s sarbaraj NOT sarbara</p>
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Welcome to my life. :)</p>
<p>The character of people on the MIT board is astounding. It does two things for me:</p>
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<li>Make me doubt I will get in</li>
<li>Reassure that MIT has the social environment I would most love to be a part of.</li>
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<p>Plus, the fact that Mollie B. cares enough about the applicants to give her time in answering the same questions over and over show something spectacular about MIT.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone who applied! There will be overwhelming rejections, so don’t take it too harshly if you don’t get in (like I won’t :P). I have faith that the acceptances will be absolutely awesome, deserving people.</p>
<p>I heard that MIT sends out regular sized envelopes so people won’t be able to guess the decisions. What would you guys do with envelope when it comes in? rip it open? wait, cry and pray first? or just try to convince yourself that you don’t REALLy want MIT and then rip it open?</p>
<p>Uhh… you would have checked your decision online first, haha.</p>
<p>oor you could’ve waited…</p>
<p>Last year, MIT did not send written letters to rejected students RD. Decisions were available exclusively online. ([source](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/regular_action_decisions_satur.shtml]source[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/regular_action_decisions_satur.shtml)</a>)</p>
<p>Of course, that may or may not be different this year.</p>
<p>But, if you get in, you get a tube*. I think a tube is pretty obviously not rejection. From what I’ve read of the blogs and from my own experiences, it seems that when you ignore your emails/a million years ago before online messages came, if you get in, you get a tube before any other more ambiguous, envelope-y packages.</p>
<p>*Unless you’re international, I think, going by what some people have said on FB.</p>
<p>Tubes have only ever been for EA admits.</p>
<p>If the HS didn’t calculate the jr. year GPA accurately since a course was missing for EA, do you think Admissions review for RD will now notice that it is higher now that the course is on the transcript? It was a college level class, so with weighting it did bring it up.</p>
<p>Most probably. From what I have heard, they re-evaluate the applications.</p>
<p>Let us wait for MITChris/molliebatmit to answer :)</p>
<p>They’ll certainly review your application again, but if it were me, I’d also send along a little update note (in the midyear report, for example) to draw attention to it.</p>
<p>So at the moment I’m barely outside the top 10% of my class, however my mid-year grades will likely bump me well into the top 10% (possibly into the top 5)… however-however, I don’t think class rank is re-calculated at semester so it will still probably show me 45th out of 432 (lol yea…)</p>
<p>If class rank is indeed a factor that is considered in the admissions process, will it hurt me if the class rank isn’t re-calculated? Because they should have my start of Sr. year transcript, will the admissions officers notice that a 4.0 UW with 4 AP classes at a public high school probably wouldn’t keep the applicant at the same class rank, and that the rank probably hasn’t been re-calculated (pending class rank mattering…)?</p>
<p>Essentially, how does class rank play into the admissions picture?</p>
<p>My grades are bad, but I’m pretty much the poster child for “positive trend” (my class rank was 190/450 at the end of freshman year and @ 1/2 way through Sr. year I’ll probably be ~30-20th)</p>
<p>Thanks for any insight!</p>
<p>Hey Nitro! Welcome to the Thread :p</p>
<p>The bottom line is that if there’s something you especially want the admissions officers to know, the MIT application provides a lot of places to tell them. I think it’s reasonable to tell the admissions officers about things like posts 71 and 73, because these are small numerical matters that the admissions officers may not catch themselves, but which are worth pointing out.</p>
<p>I don’t think pointing them out or not will make the difference between being admitted and not admitted for most people, but you also don’t want to be on this forum in March saying “I shoulda.”</p>
<p>thanks mollie!</p>
<p>but now that the app is already turned in… how would i go about “pointing it out?”</p>
<p>hey sarbaraj</p>
<p>Either in the box provided for updates in the midyear report, or by sending an email or a letter to be added to your file.</p>
<p>Hey everyone! I applied to MIT through Questbridge (for those unfamiliar with the program: [QuestBridge</a> National College Match Program](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/students/program.html]QuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org/students/program.html)), but I was not matched, so I wanted to join the thread. 
Does anyone know what the mid-year report form looks like and what we can add?</p>
<p>^ Read it here:
[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “About the Midyear Report”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/about_the_midyear_report.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/about_the_midyear_report.shtml)</p>
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Regardless of whether your application has been read yet or not, strong senior grades could make a difference, but it’s not certain that they will or won’t. MIT’s admissions process is holistic, so it’s difficult to answer how much any given positive aspect will help, but it’s certainly possible (though trivial) to say that more positive things are good. At any rate, the admissions officers will not go into selection committee until at least mid-February, so nobody will be selected before the admissions officers see everybody’s mid-year updates.</p>
<p>The midyear report apparently contains a box for updates with a 250-word limit. Updates outside the midyear report are not technically limited, but I can’t imagine one would need more than 250 words of updates. Generally speaking, with regard to supplemental material, my advice is to send what you think the admissions officers need to know, but don’t be absurd about it.</p>