<p>Didn't see a similar thread here, so I thought I'd start one (:</p>
<p>My son will be applying to MIT in the fall. He wants it bad and has the stats to be competitive, but then so do 30,000 other kids. He feels he would thrive at MIT so he will give it his very best shot and hope for the best. (he doesn’t have any “hooks”, unless being a 6’5" Lutheran fulfills some category.) 
I’ll be proud of him either way.</p>
<p>I’m going to be an EA hopeful. Possibly through Questbridge. We’ll have to see how things go. I would love more than anything to go to MIT for physics. Being a first generation Immigrant with a family who has never been to college means no matter where I go to college it’ll be a step up in the socio-economic scale.</p>
<p>I’m going to be an EA hopeful as well. I have been there quite a few times for summer programs and am lucky enough to live so close to it (right outside of Boston). I’m a first-generation college student and have low income too D: </p>
<p>I’d love to do a combination of chemical engineering and political science, and since it has top programs in both and is simply awesome, I’d love to go there.</p>
<p>Course 6 EECS FTW!</p>
<p>I can’t wait to apply for EA!</p>
<p>Ever since I’ve heard of MIT I decided I wanted to go there. If I don’t get in as a freshman I’m still going to try to get in as a transfer or go the graduate school there.</p>
<p>Course 6. Can’t wait to apply</p>
<p>I will probably be applying EA as well.</p>
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<p>No Yale or Stanford EA? :/</p>
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<p>I would if they weren’t restrictive EA. I don’t want to be limited in that respect; plus, getting in EA at those schools is more difficult than getting in RD, so the only advantage is potentially finding out earlier.</p>
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<p>Have heard this thrown around quite a bit. Can you elaborate?</p>
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<p>During EA at Yale and Stanford, only the slam-dunk applicants will be accepted. Most borderline applicants will be deferred, so that the schools can get a better idea of their applicant pools and more information about the applicants.</p>
<p>Based on my stats, would you recommend EA or RD for Yale?</p>
<p>At Stanford, most applicants will be rejected EA. Stanford has a tendency to tell you as early as possible what they think of your application.</p>
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<p>This isn’t really a stats-dependent thing. If there is no other school that you want to apply early to, you might as well go SCEA at Yale. </p>
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<p>Yes. Unlike Yale (which rejects very few and defers many), Stanford rejects most and defers few.</p>
<p>This may potentially sound insane, but I might be applying here too! I’m now almost 100% positive I want to major in Linguistics in college, and I hear MIT has a fantastic department. The Boston/Cambridge area is also a huge plus for me. My only concern is that I don’t quite come across as a very math/science oriented person (no research, not a member of math team/science olympiad, etc.).</p>
<p>^ That’s not insane at all. Math/science ECs are not as important at MIT as they are at a place like Caltech. You just have to be able to show that you will succeed in the required math and science classes at MIT, which your Subject Test scores and grades should show.</p>
<p>I will be applying to MIT and CalTech Early Action, hopefully it will go well. :)</p>
<p>do the mit admissions officers check your website if u send the link?? or do they not have the time</p>
<p>I’m worried about my 9th year grades, this year I’m doing well and I think that next year my grades will be outstanding.
Are 9th year grades so important? I should send them, MIT requires the last three years grades.</p>
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They will try to check links if you send them.</p>