<p>^ WHAT! <em>jealous</em></p>
<p>^^ DANG!!! 
any Canadians here ?? i am Canadian! gosh so much more harder for me compared to you guys :(</p>
<p>^ I’m a Canadian citizen, but I applied for U.S. permanent resident status and got my application approved. Now I’m just waiting to receive the actual visa…</p>
<p>^^ I hate you 
I joke. but DARN!!! i want to get my us residence too BOOOO</p>
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You don’t get a visa if you applied for permanent residence. You get a Permanent Residence Card (aka Green Card) so you never need a visa for travel to the U.S.
I actually got my Green Card a year ago. Lucky I don’t have to apply as an International (honestly, it sucks a lot).</p>
<p>^^ thanks for the addon of it suking for applying as an international student hahah jokes :)</p>
<p>^ I really do feel bad for you and other internationals. I was one just about a year ago, and waiting for my Green Card application to arrive before I apply to universities was definitely anxious.</p>
<p>My bad; I meant a green card lol.</p>
<p>A while back, I was considering getting a Green Card to increase my chances [my sister’s an American citizen]. I’m not sure if it would help me much, because it might’ve put my context in line with USA students, next to whom I’d look below par in some ways, and above in others. Either way if they don’t take my context the way it is, it’d mess up my application completely, so I opted not to get one. Plus, if I am accepted, being an international will make the feeling of joy better due to the much lower chances ^^</p>
<p>Sending me mail with Douglas Adams quotes on it is cheating, MIT.</p>
<p>Anyone else applying through Questbridge? I attended the MITES program this summer and it really opened my eyes up to MIT. Definitely one of the best six weeks of my life. :)</p>
<p>I SO want to do EA but I’m an international:(</p>
<p>So I’m just doing Yale SCEA which is probably harder than RD but whatever</p>
<p>just hoping that it’s not a rejection…</p>
<p>But still. MIT rocks!</p>
<p>which country are you from ^^ i am canadian.</p>
<p>I am coming down on an overnight visit for track, and the coach said that 50% of people on ‘the list’ get into MIT, but I was wondering, can that really be true? Do you know anything about that kind of stuff?</p>
<p>^^ so are you saying you have 50% of chances getting in just based on the fact that your a pro athlete ?</p>
<p>There is a lot of emphasis on athletics at American colleges in general, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was also the case for MIT…</p>
<p>but MIT isn’t that big on sports overall! I mean they don’t have teams competing in the first tear ivy competition so i don’t know if you can get in on sports scholarship?</p>
<p>@ americanschools. MIT doesn’t have sports scholarships. And Ivies do not permit member colleges to give out sports scholarships.</p>
<p>
Last year, MITChris posted [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/882019-statistics-mit-2014-admissions-cycle.html]statistics[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/882019-statistics-mit-2014-admissions-cycle.html]statistics[/url</a>] indicating that a little less than a third of art/music/athletics stars were accepted. So it’s possible that 50% of the coach’s recruits got in this year, but it’s unlikely that it’s that way every year. Certainly, you shouldn’t count on athletic recruitment as making MIT a sure thing; it’s helpful to be recruited for a sport, but it’s not more helpful than being really good at other things.</p>
<p>It says on Matt Mcgann’s blog that they don’t lower the bar for athletes, although they do enjoy bringing the athletes to MIT.</p>