<p>Seems to me that the majority of high SAT/ACT with relatively low GPAs got rejected.</p>
<p>I guess MIT values a high GPA with a difficult course load more.</p>
<p>Dear XXXX:
On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2017! You stood out as one of the most talented and promising students in one of the most competitive applicant pools in the history of the Institute. Your commitment to personal excellence and principled goals has convinced us that you will both contribute to our diverse community and thrive within our academic environment. We think that you and MIT are a great match.
You’ll likely have offers of admission from many fine schools, but we hope that you’ll choose to enroll at MIT. You have until May 1, 2013 to let us know if you’ll call MIT home for the next four years. Until then, we look forward to building our relationship with you and helping you to get to know us better. We hope you will join us on campus for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), April 11-14, 2013.
If you are a financial aid applicant, any information about your financial aid application can be found on your MyMIT portal. Simply scroll down past the Application Tracking to Financial Aid. If your financial aid application is complete, your award letter will be available on your MyMIT portal beginning March 18. If you have any questions about financial aid, feel free to contact Student Financial Services at <a href=“mailto:sfs@mit.edu”>sfs@mit.edu</a> or 617-253-4971.
MIT’s mission is to educate students in science and technology to best prepare them to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Make no mistake, the rigor here is real, but so is the excitement of discovery in the classroom. The ways students collaborate and help each other are varied and many.
I hope you’ll agree with us that MIT is the perfect place to prepare for your future. As a member of our community, you’ll join builders, scholars, entrepreneurs, and humanitarians. Together, you will make all the difference in a world that desperately needs you.
Many congratulations and welcome to MIT! Now stop reading this and go celebrate!
Sincerely,
Stuart Schmill
Dean of Admissions</p>
<p>My daughter got in! We are very proud!</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted at MIT today, and Caltech last week.</p>
<p>I’m not going to post the form, since this is NOT my own result and I don’t have all of the detailed information required to fill in every field, but I wanted to share what I think of as a very surprising rejection:</p>
<p>Top 4 student in the class at a school where typically 1-3 students are accepted at MIT, National Merit, summer lab work, significant contribution to math team, award-winning artist, hobby actor, probably had great recommendations because he is hardworking, animated, and essential the backbone of the senior class, applied early and showed all the requisite interest (interviewed, I’m sure extremely passionately) AND (the kicker) straight As in AP Calculus in freshman year, theoretical calculus/honors analysis sophomore year, multivariable calc, linear algebra, abstract algebra, AP Chem, organic chem, and both AP Physics classes. A-/B+ grades in AP humanities classes, but we’re quite well known for deflation, to the point where two years ago one of our 3.38 GPA students was accepted (and our school average accepted is 3.65).</p>
<p>reading what @highsea posted, i got overwhelmed as if that was sent to me. i didn’t apply to MIT but to UChicago which comes out tomorrow. reading people’s decisions is actually calming me a bit.</p>
<p>congrats to everyone who got accepted! :)</p>
<p>no one knows what goes on with the admissions process. nothing really should be surprising or shocking. it could be depressing, but not really surprising. people who seem to be more than qualified get rejected, and the exact opposite happens too. no one can really explain what’s going on -___-</p>
<p>my D got Rejected!! inspite of High SATs and GPAs!!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all acceptees and new MIT parents!
2013 class parent.</p>
<p>I think MIT would have rejected me if they saw my SAT math score. 
Luckily, I just sent in ACT scores! Still can’t believe I got accepted, but not sure whether I’m ready for such a big jump.</p>
<p>^Go to CPW, talk to people; talk to us here on CC. We’ll help you figure it out.</p>
<p>Well by “talk to us here on CC”, Mollie meant “talk to me, lidusha, PiperXP, rspense and any other user who is/was at MIT”. Don’t ask me or other people. We can’t guide you through this!</p>
<p>Anyways Congrats bro!</p>
<p>I got added to the admissions monthly newsletter March 1st and had never signed up for it. Then on pi day I got rejected. I was a little confused at why they would add me to their mailing list then reject me. Did this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>They just send it automatically to applicants I think.</p>
<p>Hi CarolineC - </p>
<p>That’s odd. We do add all applicants to our newsletter, as luisa said, but we don’t generally do so in March just before decisions go out. It’s likely that you were in our system since you applied and just didn’t receive ones before March (they might have been caught by a spam filter, for example). In any case, apologies, I understand why that would seem confusing.</p>
<p>My boyfriend was accepted with a 2340 and a 3.5 GPA.
(YYAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!) The only person to be accepted from my school.</p>
<p>President of the science club, member of MuAlpha Theta( never won anything).</p>
<p>I know we all received our decisions online, but will we also be getting either letters/MIT tubes in the mail? And, if so, have they been sent out (anyone gotten one?) yet?
Thanks!</p>
<p>^Wondering the same thing.
Has anyone received anything in the mail?
Thank you!</p>
<p>Got the tube today.</p>
<p>OMG HACK THE TUBES SO AWESOME AND SO HACKY!!!
I hacked mine 5 (yes, five!) different ways:
- first, I removed everything except the confetti, then used it as a rain-noise maker for the soundtrack to my latest feature-length film. Next I
- used it as a portable toilet during my third ascent of Everest so that I could do the eco-friendly thing and fertilize my local food gardens with it upon my return home. Subsequently it was hacked into a
- food storage container for my backpacking trip in in Nigeria to alleviate cystic fibrosis among NYC children. Then, it was used to
- beat down a would-be school shooter and finally I
- converted it into a prosthetic leg for my personal use. </p>
<p>^^to the poster above me… why the **** are all these parents posting on this website? And I thought I had tiger parents…</p>