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<li><p>Idk about Ganesh, other names up there are olympiad medallists for sure.</p></li>
<li><p>Ganeshh got in EA (someone wrote that) so he’s a domestic applicant, don’t count him in the Indian pool.</p></li>
<li><p>Aakanksha Sarda, in addition to ILO, had attended many OCSCs in 11th.</p></li>
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<p>MIT loves medals QED. And it’s not wrong, the world’s best science institution deserves the best science students. Period.</p>
<p>@Ascaris What do you mean by “holds a light against”? Are the courses at Cambridge any less rigorous than those at MIT? No. Are the professors at Cambridge any less accomplished at MIT? No. We’re going to uni to study, so where is this edge that MIT has? The only thing I can see is some superficial world ranking, and even that changes from year to year so that sometimes, MIT sinks, and at others, MIT rises. So, when you say every other institution is leagues behind, I don’t understand what you mean at all. From my perspective, after a certain rank (about #25), they’re all on par, with bragging rights being the only deciding factor in between.</p>
<p>We were talking about prestige. MIT blows everyone away in this regard.</p>
<p>Please google Harine Ravichandran. Check out her project on voltage regulation that got her to GSF. </p>
<p>And then tell me how anyone can keep her out of any Electrical Engineering Program in any college. I read through her project and was simply blown away. Its on the GSF site. Harine isn’t going to MIT. MIT is coming to Harine…</p>
<p>About the rest of the people who got in, all of whom happen to be on my facebook friend list. There’s nothing but the medal.</p>
<p>Jeevana Priya and Diptarka Hait don’t deserve to be uttered in the same breath as Harine Ravichandran. There’s nothing to them but the medals…</p>
<p>I was accepted into MIT this year, and I am not an Olympiad Medalist nor do I have national standing or anything. I wasn’t going to apply to MIT initially, because I thought there was no way I could get in. But I’m glad I did. I do recognize the fact that most other students are international olympiad medalists. And I admire them because it isn’t easy to do what they do. Those medals show the tremendous passion you have for the subject and just how intelligent you are for your age. </p>
<p>But my point is, that even if you don’t have Olympiad Medals, getting into MIT as an international isn’t impossible. It’s tougher, definitely, but if you show enough passion through your essays and your extracurriculars, then you will still have a good shot. Even if you don’t get in, you’ll end up getting into some other fantastic schools. MIT isn’t the be all and end all. I had done an interesting extracurricular project related to technology and that must have definitely helped my application.</p>
<p>But the Olympiad Medalists who got in still are the brightest science students in India, and they deserve it 100%. However, don’t let this dishearten you and if MIT is your dream school, then just apply. You never know.</p>
<p>MHIAD, are you an international or domestic applicant?</p>
<p>I am an international applicant from India.</p>
<p>Well that is rather impressive then. Congratulations, it is no small feat.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Oh oh! This is an old thread that I came across accidentally. But I have a point to make (maybe an info for many students). Harine Ravichandran is a silver meadalist in the International Junior Science Olympiad. So SHE IS A MEDALIST.</p>
<p>Lol^^^^^^^^^^^^that seals the nail in her coffin:)</p>
<p>Wow!! I don’t know why I try to find out about people and yes, I have come up with an update.</p>
<p>Harine Ravichandran was actually accepted to Stanford (not MIT)!! And she is actually attending Stanford now!</p>
<p>She was accepted to Stanford and MIT. She currently attends Stanford.</p>
<p>Are you really sure that she was accepted to MIT?? link please? MIT was, as in her words, her dream school. I wouldn’t believe that she rejected MIT’s offer.</p>
<p>She got into every school she applied to except Berkeley (weirdly). </p>
<p>She had some outside “counselor’s” help for applications. <a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...;
<p>Scroll down to March 15th’s posts and you’ll see</p>
<p>I got to know second-hand because I know people who know her, so i’m pretty sure she got into MIT, but went to Stanford instead.</p>
<p>It says so on the facebook page…</p>
<p>Is that help expensive??:p</p>
<p>It looks like the combination of an international award and an expensive “help” can give you “fruits”. Well, sadly I don’t have both!</p>