MIT Class of 2018 Consolidated EA/RD Results Thread

DanielHendrycks · December 11, 2013, 8:56am

Decisions come out on 12/14 at 12:14 EST. Find it [url=<a href="https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php%5Dhere%5B/url">https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php]here[/url</a>].

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Pick one:
Decision: Accepted
Decision: Deferred
Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]

[li] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):[/li]
[li] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):[/li]
[li] ACT (breakdown):[/li]
[li] ACT superscore (breakdown):[/li]
[li] SAT II (subject, score):[/li]
[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):[/li]
[li] Weighted GPA:[/li]
[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):[/li]
[li] AP (place score in parentheses):[/li]
[li] IB (place score in parentheses):[/li]
[li] Senior Year Course Load:[/li]
[li] Number of other EA applicants in your school:[/li]
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):[/li]
[li] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):[/li][/ul]

Subjective:
[ul]

[li] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):[/li]
[li] Job/Work Experience:[/li]
[li] Volunteer/Community Service:[/li]
[li] Summer Experience:[/ul][/li]
Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
[ul]

[li] Essays:[list][/li]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure:[/li]
[li] Department at MIT:[/li]
[li] Trait Most Proud Of:[/li]
[li] World You Come From:[/li]
[li] Significant Challenge:[/li]
[li] Additional Essay/QB Essays:[/li]
[li] Other (teacher's subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/li][/ul]

[li] Teacher Recommendation #1:[/li]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #2:[/li]
[li] Counselor Rec:[/li]
[li] Additional Info/Rec:[/li]
[li] Interview:[/li]
[li] Art Supplement:[/list][/li]
Other[ul]

[li] Date Submitted App:[/li]
[li] U.S. State/Territory or Country:[/li]
[li] School Type:[/li]
[li] Ethnicity:[/li]
[li] Gender:[/li]
[li] Income Bracket Range:[/li]
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]

[li] Strengths:[/li]
[li] Weaknesses:[/li]
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:[/li]
[li] What would you have done differently?:[/ul][/li]
Other Factors:

General Comments & Advice:
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Good luck to all!

molliebatmit · December 14, 2013, 9:19am

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Good luck and best wishes to all!

Erin2346 · December 14, 2013, 12:26pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]

[] ACT (breakdown): 32 math 35 English 36 science 36 reading 10 writing
[] ACT superscore (breakdown):35 math 36 English 36 science 36 reading 10 writing
[] SAT II (subject, score): 660 chem, 700 math 2
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 4.472
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/390
[] AP (place score in parentheses): stats (5) Lang (4) us gov (5)
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP chem, AP calc, AP macroeconomics, AP lit, AP psych, transitional psychology, criminal law
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 2?
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP scholar, honor roll, nm commended, a district writing award[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): FIRST robotics, 11th and 12th grade, ecology club 10th and 11th, national honor society 11th and 12th, team America rocketry 12th
[] Job/Work Experience: cashier at Dairy Queen for like 8 months
[] Volunteer/Community Service: about 100 hours, mostly related to church
[] Summer Experience: engineering camp at michigan tech university [/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: reading, 8[/li][] Department at MIT: chemistry, 8
[] Trait Most Proud Of: work ethic, 7, it might have seemed rather fake. This one was hard for me to write
[] World You Come From: I wrote about the special school I go to for half the day for nerds, 10, I was proud of this one
[] Significant Challenge: I honestly can’t remember or find the essay anywhere
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[] Teacher Recommendation #1: My AP chemistry teacher. It would have been a great rec (9)
[] Teacher Recommendation #2: My AP Lang teacher, possibly sketchy. I don’t know how it was. (6)
[] Counselor Rec: My counselor loves me. It was probably strong.(9)
[] Interview: I had one and it seemed to go really well, but I guess it’s hard to tell how he actually felt about me
[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: Oct. 21
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: MI
[] School Type: Selective-Entry STEM school
[] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket Range:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): None[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: ACT and GPA
[] Weaknesses: SAT II
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: my SAT II scores were pitiful, but my other stats were too high for them to straight up reject me
[] What would you have done differently?: I would have studied more for the sat subject tests [/ul]

Other Factors:

General Comments & Advice:

stsmwg · December 14, 2013, 12:31pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2160 (did not submit)
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):
[] ACT (breakdown): 35 One sitting
[] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[] SAT II (subject, score): 800 Math 2, 770 Phyics, 770 US History
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: ~4.5
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3
[] AP (place score in parentheses): 5: Calc BC, APUSH, Language, Physics B; 4: Microeconomics
[] Senior Year Course Load: 5 AP’s
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 0
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
[li] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar w/ distinction, honor roll, NM commendation[/ul][/li]
Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Lighting, since 6th grade; Launching weather balloons during high school: VP level in group…
[] Job/Work Experience: Worked at a Caltech facility over the summer
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Lighting again
[] Summer Experience: Stanford’s EPGY 3 years in Physics, Engineering and AI
[/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Lighting 7, Could have been better but well written.[/li][] Department at MIT: 6, 8, Pretty polished
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Curiosity/Independent motivation, 9 very polished
[] World You Come From: Rural 8, could have been a little better but quite polished
[] Significant Challenge: A balloon launch that landed near Area 51 8, ongoing event so could be a lot better
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays:
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Good, likes me and thinks I’m smart saw it and he wrote basically great things[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: Awesome, my APUSH teacher called me brilliant so good
[] Counselor Rec: Don’t know but probably good
[] Additional Info/Rec: My boss at the Caltech facility during the summer
[] Interview: At Google, thought it went pretty well.
[] Art Supplement: N/A [/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: 11/1
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: CA
[] School Type: Small Public, rural
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: Upper Middle Class
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): Just really love doing work with electronics etc.[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Recommendations, Extracurriculars
[] Weaknesses: Essays were sort of weak
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Essays
[] What would you have done differently?: Planned the timing better so I wasn’t so rushed.[/ul]

General Comments & Advice: MIT was my top choice, I got into Caltech so at least I have a place to go, I’m still going to apply to Stanford etc.

PhysicsGal · December 14, 2013, 12:35pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:

<pre><code>SAT I (breakdown): 2240 (CR: 760, M: 750, W: 730)
SAT II: 800 (Math II), 780 (Chem)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/330
AP (place score in parenthesis):US History, English Language and Lit, Calculus AB and BC, EURO, AP Comp Sci, Enviro, Gov’t, Chem, Physics C,
</code></pre>

Subjective:

<pre><code>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key Club (Pres and VP), Student government , Reading team, nhs, snhs (Treasurers), Thespians(Secretary), Mentor Team, Mathletes, Physics Olympics, Westinghouse Science Honors Institute, Freestyle Ski Tem
Job/Work Experience: None
Essays: Good
Teacher Recommendation:
Counselor Rec:
</code></pre>

Other

<pre><code>State (if domestic applicant): PA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >$250,000
Applied major: Mechanical Engineering
</code></pre>

icyhotgel · December 14, 2013, 12:37pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): n/a
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 710/680/760/10
[] ACT (breakdown): n/a
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): n/a
[] SAT II (subject, score): Math II 800, Chem 710
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[] Weighted GPA: n/a
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/270ish
[] AP (place score in parentheses): World- 5, Chem- 4 (no AP’s allowed till Junior year)
[] IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C: Mech and E/M, BC Calc, AP Psych, AP Bio, English, Technology Integration (helps teachers/students w/ tech issues and maintain blog)
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 2 including me
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Nada
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): High Honors, Elks Student of the Month, 100+ Hour Hospital Volunteer, basic stuff
[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):[/li]NHS-VP, Track- ran the Mile, Environmental- VP, Student Council- Treasurer, Math League, Robotics (CAD and Marketing)

[] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Hospital Volunteer (summers and weekends), Charity Work for Syria, religious, help out elementary schools with tech issues
[] Summer Experience:[/ul]
n/a
Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[] What You Do For Pleasure: Anime, 9/10
[] Department at MIT: Course 20, 6/10
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Ability to work well in teams 5/10
[] World You Come From: Indian-American, spice rack 8.5/10
[] Significant Challenge: Public Speaking 7/10
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: Childhood love for K’nex, this was really fun to write 9/10
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: AP World, head of History Dept. 8-9/10 (used to be an Admissions Officer)[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: Chem/AP Chem/AP Physics, Head of science Dept, 9/10 (Great guy, amazingly smart and loved me)
[] Counselor Rec: Generic like always, 7/10
[] Additional Info/Rec: About school’s grading system, probably shouldn’t have put that in there
[] Interview: Solid, said some weird things here and there due to nervousness but went well. Had a nice conversation about Beowulf and some Biotech articles.
[] Art Supplement:[/list]
n/a

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: early november
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: New England
[] School Type: Public, 1100 kids or so
[] Ethnicity: Indian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: 100-120k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): nada [/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: GPA, math SAT II, variety of EC’s
[] Weaknesses: SAT I, chem II, not focusing in on EC’s, essays were rushed (MIT was sort of a spur of the moment thing)
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Essays most likely, should’ve done an additional essay in a unique way or made it into a “Why MIT?” thing… Test scores were mediocre
[] What would you have done differently?: Started earlier, my school’s poor job of college prep really annoys me. Alas, ignorance is not a valid excuse.
[/ul]

General Comments & Advice:
Zoom in on a few EC’s you love, two-three is plenty. Start early; get your tests done by junior year and start your essays over the summer. Research beforehand, and write some REALLY good essays. Essays Essays Essays. Also, try out the ACT at least once. I regret not doing so.

evanatch · December 14, 2013, 12:42pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 740/800/700/9
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 740/800/700/9
[] ACT (breakdown): 35/35/33/36/9 and 34/34/36/36
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): 35/35/36/36
[] SAT II (subject, score): 800 Math II, 750 Physics
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 4.4 or 4.5
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/250
[] AP (place score in parentheses): A few 5s
[] IB (place score in parentheses): Full IB Diploma candidate, no scores yet
[] Senior Year Course Load: IB Music SL, IB Math HL, IB English HL, IB History of the Americas HL, IB Spanish HL, IB Chemistry SL, IB Theory of Knowledge
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: None
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Nothing huge
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar with honors, NMSF, student of the week, student of the month, etc.
[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): FRC team co-founder and co-captain, FLL team mentor, Knowledge Bowl team captain, building guitars, bassist for my church, etc…
[] Job/Work Experience: Tutoring stuff
[] Volunteer/Community Service: FLL mentorship
[] Summer Experience: I took 8.MReV through MITx this past summer
[/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: 7[/li][] Department at MIT: 8
[] Trait Most Proud Of: 9
[] World You Come From: 8
[] Significant Challenge: 8
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays:
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Probably fantastic[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: Very good
[] Counselor Rec: Probably great
[] Additional Info/Rec:
[] Interview: It went well enough
[] Art Supplement: I submitted a Maker supplement about a bass guitar I built.
[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: About a week before the deadline.
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: Colorado
[] School Type: Mid-sized public
[] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: Middle class
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Unique extracurriculars and leadership like building guitars and founding a FIRST robotics team.
[] Weaknesses: Weak schedule in science, lack of research. My school really, really sucks for science. Not an URM.
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: The weaknesses, probably. I guess I just didn’t stand out enough.
[] What would you have done differently?:[/ul]
I’m not sure what I could do differently. I would probably tell my freshman self to be less awkward and introverted and go out and do things. Maybe if I had become involved with robotics earlier, or if I had reached out to a professor to do research, I’d have had a better shot. It’s only a deferral though, so I’m not giving up hope yet!

I was sort of expecting this, since I got deferred from Caltech last week. Still hurts, though. Congratulations to all who were accepted and good luck to all the other deferees!

tips1660 · December 14, 2013, 12:44pm

Pick one:
Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): didn’t take
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Didn’t take
[] ACT (breakdown): 36 - 35 English, 35 Reading, 36 Math/Science
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): 36
[] SAT II (subject, score): 760 Physics, 770 Math 2
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
[] Weighted GPA: 4.6/4.0
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 3% out of 1000 kids
[] AP (place score in parentheses): AP Macro-5, AP Micro-4, AP Physics B- 5, AP Computer Science- 5, AP English - 5, AP Calculus BC- 5, AP US History-5, AP Euro-5
[] IB (place score in parentheses): Nope
[] Senior Year Course Load: Calc 3/Lin Alg, AP Stats, AP Comparative Government, AP Literature and Composition (?), AP Physics C, AP Psychology,
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 15+. Our school is incredibly weird. We get great testing scores, but don’t really send that many people to the big schools (at least not as many as we should be) We havent had a single student make early action for the last 6 years, though I think one girl is going to be recruited for Swimming.
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): None really
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, Some Department Awards, Some national/international MUN Awards, some school awards, honor roll etc.
[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): MUN- Secretary General, Swimming- Captain, Green Team-Editor of green team paper, Piano- 10 years, just for pleasure
[] Job/Work Experience: Programmer for Delphian Co.
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Volunteered in a hospital in my ancestral village, NHS (Didn’t put on app), Volunteering at my swim club,
[] Summer Experience: Swimming, job as a coder, etc. [/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list] I’m not going to rate them, I think I did just fine on them to be honest.
[] What You Do For Pleasure: Swimming
[] Department at MIT: Sloan
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Curiosity for the weird
[] World You Come From: Challenging community
[] Significant Challenge: debugging problems over my summer job
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: not sure what I wrote about
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[] Teacher Recommendation #1: Econ teacher- should have been great
[] Teacher Recommendation #2: Math teacher- probably lacking
[] Counselor Rec: Got a big school so this may or may not have been good, though he said he wrote a great one
[] Additional Info/Rec: Great, from my employer
[] Interview: Went for quite a while, over a hour ish and we talked about a bunch of random things, I had plenty of questions too
[] Art Supplement:[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: October 30th
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: Illinois
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Indian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: >200K
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): please. I’m an indian in the top .5% income bracket from a region that reportedly has some of the lowest IVY league placement in the nation. [/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Testing Scores, Grades, essays (besides for that community one)
[] Weaknesses: Lack of STEM Awards/Research/Projects, probably teacher 2 rec, failure to include major ECs (see below).
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Probably lack of major awards/STEM stuff/
[] What would you have done differently?: Nothing. To be honest I didn’t really think I’d get in the first place after noticing that I needed a rec from a math teacher. Math’s never been one of my foremost subjects and I really don’t think that it reflects well on me as an applicant[/ul]

Other Factors:
I actually feel kind of dumb about this now, but I didn’t put a bunch of my EC’s on the app like my congressional internship/director of research for our school’s psych team/NHS leadership roles/Election to Student Leadership Organisations/ participation in Math Team and i noticed one rather embarrassing typo in my app. I REALLLLY should have used that additional comments section /facepalm

**General Comments & Advice: ** None, good job to everyone who got in, and better luck elsewhere to anyone who was deferred/rejected! MIT was an Indian dad pleading type of deal anyways, UChicago’s more of my fit and my top choice anyways
** Other places applied ** UChicago, Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UIUC so far (thankfully all these places are getting the fuller picture of my ECs)

roxy481 · December 14, 2013, 12:51pm

MIT

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2320: 800w 770cr 750m
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):
[] ACT (breakdown):
[] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[] SAT II (subject, score): math 2: 790, chem 760
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[] Weighted GPA: 4.27
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[] AP (place score in parentheses): human geo (3) euro history (4)
[] IB (place score in parentheses): taking all tests senior year
[] Senior Year Course Load: ib diploma: hl english, hl bio, hl chem, sl math, hl french, tok, hl history, online honors physics
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school:
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):[/ul] MUN Awards from several conferences, 3rd place youth award in SoCal for cultural group, honor roll

Subjective:[ul]
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
MUN (9-12, President, several awards)
DECA (12, President/founder)
Desi Club (10-12, President)
French Honor Society (12, VP)

Job/Work Experience:
Intern at a UCLA bioengineering lab past summer.
Intern in social media & marketing at a non-profit foundation during summer
Volunteer/Community Service: Volunteer at hospital for 3 years, 300+ hours. Founded my own company that donates quilts to cancer patients.

Summer Experience: internships mentioned

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[list]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: about quilting, 8[/li][] Department at MIT: bioengineering, talked about lab experience, 8
[] Trait Most Proud Of: “daring,” 5
[] World You Come From: elaborate on lab, how i felt that it revolved around profit rather than science, 7
[] Significant Challenge: mom’s cancer 9
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays:
[li] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul][/li]
[] Teacher Recommendation #1:English teacher- didn’t read, she loves me though so prob 9
[] Teacher Recommendation #2:Bio teacher- didn’t read, but he personally told me that he wrote a really good one 8
[] Counselor Rec: she knows a lot about me, but i know they use generic templates 7
[] Additional Info/Rec:
[] Interview: AMAZING. really the best one i’ve had. i connected with her, and she said i would really fit in at MIT. i even kept in contact with her and had her review some of my essays
[] Art Supplement:[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: part one: 9/27; part 2: 10/28
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: CA
[] School Type: large public charter
[] Ethnicity: asian indian
[] Gender: F
[] Income Bracket Range: 180k-200k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: ECs, recs, interview, SAT
[] Weaknesses: GPA, essays…maybe. 2 of them were meh
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred prob because they saw that I had the stats and ECs but honestly my essays could’ve been improved. 2 of them were done last minute
[] What would you have done differently?:[/ul]
spent more time on my essays
Other Factors:

women in engineering? hah guess that didn’t help
General Comments & Advice:
disappointed, but waiting for my ED school Monday. that’ll be more heartbreaking. and at least it wasn’t an outright rejection.

Other places applied
UChicago EA, UPenn ED,
Accepted UIUC, Accepted Tulane (pres. scholar & honors program)

Texasian0 · December 14, 2013, 12:53pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 770M, 790CR, 760W, 11
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2320 (2nd time)
[] ACT (breakdown): 36M, 36S, 36R, 35E (no writing)
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): 36
[] SAT II (subject, score): 800 MII, 800 Chem
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 5.11 (6.0 AP, 5.0 Honors/Pre-AP, 4.0 Level)
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 11
[] AP (place score in parentheses): World History (5), Computer Science A (5), Spanish Language (4), English Language (5), Chemistry (5), Statistics (5)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, Honors Organic Chem, AP Environmental Science, AP English Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP US Gov’t, AP Biology, AP Physics C
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: ~4
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): FRC World Champion, Eagle Scout
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):[/ul] State Rowing Championships Finalist, BEST Robotics state finalist, US Rowing scholastic honor roll, AMC12 School Winner/Dist. honor roll, NMSF, City Science Fair 1st & Best in Division, National Spanish Silver x2

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Robotics (11-12) - FIRST robotics in the spring, BEST robotics in the fall
Crew (10-12) - Varsity
Orchestra/Violin (5-12) - City youth symphony top orchestra, school varsity, state solo & ensemble, region & area orchestras
Boy Scouts (1-12) - Troop guide
Math/Science Clubs (9-12) - MAΘ Vice President, Math UIL (district/regional/state competitions), Science Bowl
[] Job/Work Experience: Chemical Engineering Research Intern at a university
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Boy Scouts
[] Summer Experience: Summer Research Program (above) 8 weeks

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[list]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Music, 7[/li][] Department at MIT: Chem E, 8
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Humor/quirks, 9
[] World You Come From: Magnet science program, 8
[] Significant Challenge: FIRST robotics, 7
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: Culture - humorous, research portfolio link with poster, essay on why chemical engineering (summer research)
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Chemistry Teacher, 7-8, thinks I’m a great student, but not much other interaction[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: English Teacher, 8-9
[] Counselor Rec: No idea
[] Additional Info/Rec: Professor, 6-9
[] Interview: 7
[] Art Supplement:[/list]

Other[list]
[] Date Submitted App: 10/30
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: TX
[] School Type: Magnet program w/i public, ~625 per grade
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: 100-150K
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): none[/li]
Reflection[list]
[] Strengths: Numbers, well-rounded, significant achievements, personality in my essays
[] Weaknesses: Not super-unique, recommendations might have been kinda weak
[] Why you think you were deferred: I just got my decision so my mind’s not very clear
[] What would you have done differently?: To be honest, nothing. I really liked my application
Other Factors:

General Comments & Advice:

Although it definitely sucks, I think I’m growing from this experience. I still have a little hope for getting in; I guess I’ll just have to work harder. My life has prepared me for more than just college, so to all the other deferred/rejected students out there - life goes on.

DanielHendrycks · December 14, 2013, 1:18pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Didn’t take
[] ACT (breakdown): 33 (34,35,31,32)
[] SAT II (subject, score): 800 Math 2, 760 Chem (currently in a chem course)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[] Weighted GPA: 4.25
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
[] AP (place score in parentheses): Calculus BC (5; self-study) (my school does not have AP courses)
[] Senior Year Course Load: (Hardest available) Calc III (A+, CTY Online), Linear Algebra (A, CTY Online), Honors Eng 4, Honors Chem 2, Civil War, Honors Bio II, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Honors Stats, Spanish 3, Differential Equations (CTY Online), Intro to Computer Science (MITx/edX)
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 0
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): 5th Nats. for GPML/Mathleague in Sprint event for 11th graders, 5th State for GPML Sprint for 10th grade (I don’t know how this compares to people who take the AIME)
[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Competition maths (captain), tutoring, Speech and Debate (LD president), NHS (president), FCCLA (officer), I program in my free time (submitted some Khan Academy exercises and made a browser extension)
[] Job/Work Experience: None
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Tutoring, FCCLA, NHS
[] Summer Experience: Teaching myself[/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
I cannot rate these.
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Debate[/li][] Department at MIT: Maths
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Utilitarian (in the philosophy sense) mindset
[] World You Come From: Talked about online community
[] Significant Challenge: Art
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: Submitted abstract to a bit of research I did independently
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Didn’t read[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: Didn’t read
[] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read
[] Interview: Seemed to go well
[li] Art Supplement: None[/list][/li]
Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: October 30th
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: Missouri
[] School Type: Small/Medium, Rural, and Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Male[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: I’m from a low-performing environment
[] Weaknesses: My ACT is below average, and I could have utilized more opportunities (e.g., self-study more APs). Maybe an essay was too divisive. No USAMO.
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I’m not talented enough; maybe I’m not warm enough.
[] What would you have done differently?: Work harder.[/ul]

General Comments & Advice:
It’s time to apply to lesser places.

lisper · December 14, 2013, 1:18pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 800 800 680 8
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2280
[] ACT (breakdown):
[] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[] SAT II (subject, score): Math II 800, Physics 760
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 4.5
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 / ~400
[] AP (place score in parentheses): AP Calc (5)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Comp Sci, AP Physics C, AP Chemistry, AP Calc BC
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 2
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Nothing really major, made into to State finals for Math competition
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):Xerox Award for IT, Nat. Merit Semi-Finalist, Honor roll, many school awards in Math, Sci, Foreign Language[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Captain Math team, Captain Soccer team
[] Job/Work Experience:Started company that builds apps
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Volunteer to teach basketball, math, and chess; help at food pantry
[] Summer Experience: Comp Sci Camp, research project[/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: 7 Soccer[/li][] Department at MIT: 8 Course 6
[] Trait Most Proud Of: 7 Meticulousness
[] World You Come From: 9 Interesting background,
[] Significant Challenge: 10, servers crashed day before delivery to client, worked to fix it with friend
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays:
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: 9, wrote about how I helped students, made labs better, programmed solutions to problems.[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: IDK, didn’t see it, but the teacher loved me
[] Counselor Rec: 6, Counselor wasn’t a very good writer, and didn’t have me until this year
[] Additional Info/Rec: 10 Reseach advisor, wrote a really good rec
[] Interview: 10, really hit it off with interviewer, was knowledgeable about AI, and was impressed by my knowledge and research project
[] Art Supplement:[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: Last Day
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: NE
[] School Type: Unknown
[] Ethnicity: Caucasian, Middle Eastern
[] Gender: M
[] Income Bracket Range: 50,000 - 75,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): Coach was interested in me, guess it didn’t turn out[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: SAT Scores, grades, interviews
[] Weaknesses: Essays, Caucasian Male from NE gives me like 5% chance.
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: IDK, this was a really strong application, maybe the essays and poor guidance counselor rec
[] What would you have done differently?: Started earlier, spent more time on the essays, gave more info on research[/ul]

Other Factors:

Didn’t really get to explain programs I have written, going to try and post them for Regular Decision

**General Comments & Advice: **
Start early, and work diligently on your applications. Really try to show interest on what makes MIT great, not just because it is MIT. Sometimes, it is just the luck of the draw. There are very few things I could have done better, yet I have close to no chance of being accepted. I guess some things just happen for a reason.

Congrats to those who got accepted. Keep your head’s up, all the deferred, I am right there with you :)

AmaranthineD · December 14, 2013, 1:25pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 740/750/770/9 (2260)
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): N/A
[] ACT (breakdown):
[] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[] SAT II (subject, score): 720 Chem, 780 ML2
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 4.17
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10/1070
[] AP (place score in parentheses): Chem 4, Lang 5, USH 5
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, AP Physics, AP Stats, AP Gov, AP Lit
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school:
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Girl Scout Gold Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award, Scholastic Art and Writing Award Honorable Mention
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):[/ul] AP Scholar, National Merit Commended

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
11-2 Research at the UCI Medical Center Neuropsychiatric Ward
9-12 Girl Scouts, troop president
Classical piano, MTAC Level 10 grad, regional awards
[] Job/Work Experience:
Piano teacher with 4 students
[] Volunteer/Community Service:
Girl Scouts
[] Summer Experience:[/ul]
E2@MIT

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Writing[/li][] Department at MIT: 2A(Mechanical Engineering)
[] Trait Most Proud Of:Determination
[] World You Come From: Being online charter schooled
[] Significant Challenge: Lack of enrichment in a homeschool
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays:
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Didn’t see, prob generic[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: Saw, alright
[] Counselor Rec: New counselor, so generic
[] Additional Info/Rec:
[] Interview: Good!
[] Art Supplement:[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: Maybe a week before?
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: CA
[] School Type: Online public charter school
[] Ethnicity:Chinese
[] Gender:F
[] Income Bracket Range: >100,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul] E2@MIT[/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths:E2, nontraditional education, lame noncompetitive school
[] Weaknesses: SAT II scores, lack of awesome extracurriculars
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I don’t know. My Gold Award is still in progress, maybe they want to see if I have it yet?
[] What would you have done differently?:[/ul]
Gotten Gold Award earlier.
Other Factors:
Waiting.

General Comments & Advice:

AOK800 · December 14, 2013, 1:27pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 790M, 800CR, 790W, 10
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2380
[] ACT (breakdown):
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): 36
[] SAT II (subject, score): Math2 800, Physics 750, Spanish 750
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
[] Weighted GPA: 4.22
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[] AP (place score in parentheses): Calculus (5), Computer Science (5)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Macro/Micro Econ, AP Stats
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: don’t know
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): none
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National Merit Semifinalist [/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Varsity Football, Mu Alpha Theta, Science Honor Society
[] Job/Work Experience: too complicated to explain here
[] Volunteer/Community Service: math tutoring, FOPS
[] Summer Experience:[/ul]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: 10/30
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: NJ
[] School Type: Large Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: Too high to get financial aid
[*] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul]

Wazzupdawg · December 14, 2013, 1:30pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 730M 780CR 800 W 12 Essay but I don’t think MIT cares about single sitting
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 760 M 800 CR 800 W 12 Essay (two sittings)
[] ACT (breakdown): 35 M 35 E 36 M 36 R Essay: 8, 36 composite
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): ^
[] SAT II (subject, score): 800 M2 800 Chem 800 USH 800 Span w/ Listening
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: idk
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 but my school doesn’t rank
[] AP (place score in parentheses): 4 Art History, 5 Chem, 5 USH, 5 Lang/Comp, 4 Stats (self-studied)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics C (both), AP Biology, AP Comp Sci A, AP Spanish, AP Lit, Religion class
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 1
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): USNCO, submitted to Intel, Eagle Scout, some other awards
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):[/ul] NMSF, AP Scholar w/ distinction, harvard book award, other things

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Boy Scouts - 9-12, Eagle Scout, Troop Guide, Patrol Leader, Crew Leader
Academic Team- 9-12, JV captain (10th), Varsity captain (12th), lots of local awards
Chem Club 11-12, organized USNCO for my school
Math Team 10-12, currently in second place individually in my city’s math league
Research at university 12
Volunteering 9-12, lots of stuff
[] Job/Work Experience: None
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Mostly NHS, Boy Scouts, and miscellaneous other things
[] Summer Experience:[/ul] My state’s Governor’s School, Crew Leader at boy scouts high adventure, reading

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Watching movies with my family[/li][] Department at MIT: EECS
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Motivation
[] World You Come From: Kentucky
[] Significant Challenge: Brother had an illness and I basically cared for myself for a month in 9th grade
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays:
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Math + Academic Team[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: English
[] Counselor Rec: IDK
[] Additional Info/Rec: I should probably submit a rec from my research mentor RD, but for EA I had no additional recs.
[] Interview: It was okay. I didn’t really connect with my interviewer and I was kind of nervous. I actually greatly disliked him.
[] Art Supplement:[/list] None

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: Oct. 31 or something
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: KY
[] School Type: Private (catholic)
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: on the edge of receiving FA
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul] Geographic diversity seems to be considered a hook by some people, but I don’t buy it. Other than that, none[/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: GPA, Test Scores, I thought that my ECs were good considering where I’m from and the opportunities available to me
[] Weaknesses: I didn’t think anything was very weak. I mean, I didn’t win any huge national awards, but nothing was really bad. I didn’t score my essays because I don’t know if I could. Perhaps they were a problem, but I liked them. I also don’t know what my teacher recs were like.
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred because I am not the greatest at bragging about myself, and because I suppose they might not have liked my essays. Also, from looking at past MIT results threads, it seems that the Asian/white males that get in are more impressive than me. I probably should have listed more ECs and awards in the additional info section, but I didn’t. My school has very poor placement to MIT (0 accepted out of 13 in past 5 years).
[] What would you have done differently?:[/ul] Start research earlier, tried to be more of a leader at school, schmoozed up a teacher so that I could get a really good letter.

Other Factors: I thought being from Kentucky would help, but it didn’t.

General Comments & Advice:
Hopefully I get accepted to some other reach schools… I’ve only been accepted to some safeties so far. I have already been deferred from Caltech. I’m sort of upset about my deferral, but I accept that there is nothing that I can do to change it.

soundgarden210 · December 14, 2013, 1:34pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 770M 800CR 800W, 10
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): same as above
[] ACT (breakdown): none
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): none
[] SAT II (subject, score): Chem-760, Bio (M)-760, Math II- 740
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 4.61
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 1%
[] AP (place score in parentheses): APUSH (5), World History (5), Calc AB (5), Chem (4), Bio (4)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculcus BC, AP Comparative Government, AP Spanish, AP Economics, AP English, AP Statistics, Honors Physics
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: probably 1 or 2
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): none?
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar with distinction, National Merit Semifinalist, Science fair awards, FBLA state awards[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Science Fair grades 7-12, secretary in 10th and 11th, won regional and state awards.
Science Olympiad, 9-12, varsity competition team, went to states last year for the first time in 15 years
FBLA, 11-12, won first in regional and 7th in states last year
Political Science, 9-12, represented school in various MUN conferences
Club Med, 9-12
Leo Club, 9-12, volunteered around the community, over 90 service hours
NHS, 11-12
Math Honors Society, 10-12, secretary
Math League, 11-12, secretary
Spanish Honors Society, 11-12
Science Honors Society, 11-12
JV Cross Country, 8-10, distance runner, hurt leg so couldn’t run in 11th grade
JV Track & Field, 9-10, distance runner
Indian Vocal Classical Music, learned music for 9 years, performed around the region many times, will pursue in college, sent art supplement
Photography, became interested in photography in 10th grade, took a course, shoot in my free time
[] Job/Work Experience: Tutor at Kumon Math & Reading Center (grades 10-12)
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Da Vinci Science Center volunteer (grades 9-10)
[] Summer Experience: Travelling, Volunteering[/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Sing Indian classical music, 9[/li][] Department at MIT: Biological Engineering, 9
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Love of helping others, 10
[] World You Come From: Indian American, 8
[] Significant Challenge: Science Fair, 8
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays:
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Chemistry teacher, had him for two years and he loved me, probably 10[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: English teacher from 10th grade who I LOVED. Probably 9 or 10
[] Counselor Rec: I know my guidance counselor very well and she advocates for me often so probably 9-10
[] Additional Info/Rec:
[] Interview: Interview went really well and we ended up talking for about 2 hours.
[] Art Supplement: Sent recordings of me singing my best songs and my teacher wrote a glowing recommendation. [/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: 10/27/13
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: Pennsylvania
[] School Type: Public, Large, >3000 students
[] Ethnicity: Indian
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket Range: $120-140k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): Female engineer? Idk [/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: My devotion to the arts, test scores, strong transcript, extracurriculars, love of math and science.
[] Weaknesses: I don’t have any national or international awards.
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I don’t know! I was just hoping I wouldn’t rejected outright.
[] What would you have done differently?: Nothing really. I’m happy with my deferral and I’m hoping for the best in March. [/ul]

Other Factors:

General Comments & Advice:
Congratulations to everyone who was accepted already and good luck to everyone who was deferred. Remember, deferral doesn’t mean you’re rejected. There’s always hope for us. In the mean time, we have to tirelessly work on other applications. :(

davelee1054 · December 14, 2013, 1:41pm

Decision: Deferred

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 800/710/800/12
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): same as above
[] ACT (breakdown): N/A
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): N/A
[] SAT II (subject, score): Math 2, 800; Physics, 800; Chemistry, 800
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 4.72 (submitted a pretty much perfect transcript - not going to lie.)
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/746
[] AP (place score in parentheses): Biology, Chemistry, European History, Physics B, Calculus BC, English Language, US History, Computer Science A, Psychology (all 5)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable calculus, Microbiology, English literature, Human geography, Macroeconomics
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 2
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, Honor roll, JV Tennis MVP, National Honors Society, CSF[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): JV and Varsity Tennis, custom PC building, Windows Phone app development, web development, tutoring, some volunteer work…honestly nothing particularly impressive
[] Job/Work Experience: Tutor, app development, YouTube content publisher
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Listed above, just stuff I did for school clubs
[] Summer Experience: Everything listed above[/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Tennis. Overall, my essays were well-written, but did not really offer that much of a personal insight into me as a person. Didn’t really feel very genuine.[/li][] Department at MIT: Course 6 and 9
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Perseverance
[] World You Come From: Intellectual curiosity
[] Significant Challenge: Overcoming a personal social struggle
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: Just some elaboration on extracurricular activities
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: US History teacher. At my school we are not allowed to read the recommendations so I do not know anything about either of the two[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: Calculus BC teacher and JV tennis coach
[] Counselor Rec:
[] Additional Info/Rec: None
[] Interview: Went fairly well, was just a normal conversation.
[] Art Supplement: Submitted a Maker Portfolio of an engineering project I worked on[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: day before deadline
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: CA
[] School Type: Public, fairly large (746 students in senior class)
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: M
[] Income Bracket Range:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): …?[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Numbers.
[] Weaknesses: Everything else, pretty much.
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Essays didn’t offer too great of an insight into me as a person. Nothing very impressive in my application that was not purely academic.
[] What would you have done differently?: More school-related extracurriculars[/ul]

Other Factors:

General Comments & Advice:
Expected to get denied flat out, got deferred, so that is good in some sense. Still wish I could have been accepted.

selbell · December 14, 2013, 1:55pm

**Decision: AdMITted **

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 800/800/790/9 (1 sitting)
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): same
[] ACT (breakdown): 35
[] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[] SAT II (subject, score): Math II- 800, Biology- 780, Chemistry- 760
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[] Weighted GPA: 4.3
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
[] AP (place score in parentheses): Chem (5), Bio (5) WH(5) USH (5), Calc AB (5), Lang (5) Art History (4) Stats (4), Env. Science (4)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Spanish Lang, AP English Lit, AP Physics C, AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Comp Sci
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 2
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Siemens Semifinalist
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar, NM, Chess stuff, Science olympiad, Robotics awards [/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Robotics Captain, Science olympiad captain, started organ donation awareness club, chess club, research
[] Job/Work Experience: Internship/Observership at immunology lab
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Volunteered at hospital and animal shelter,
[] Summer Experience: Math camp (2 years), Internship, Volunteer work- I basically never got a week to relax lol [/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays:[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Fashion design (8) Felt good about it despite everyone warning me not to write this[/li][] Department at MIT: Math & Neuroscience (9)- Pretty convincing
[] Trait Most Proud Of:My curiosity about others’ viewpoints (10)
[] World You Come From: Wrote about how no one at my school likes math but I’m trying to change that, and the fact that there’s no girls in my science/math classes
[] Significant Challenge: My sibling’s heart condition and how I started an organ donation awareness club because of it
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: None
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Math, 10, favorite student and I’m sure it was amazing[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: History, 10, pretty sure it was amazing, she loves me
[] Counselor Rec: 15 (lol), we’re very close
[] Additional Info/Rec: Submitted research abstract
[] Interview: Went very well! She was really nice
[] Art Supplement: None [/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App:
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: Texas
[] School Type: Charter
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket Range: High
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): None I think! [/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Rec letters, SAT score, Research awards
[] Weaknesses: I didn’t really have any math awards and my essays weren’t as great as I wanted them to be
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think that my research really got me in, plus the fact that I’m a girl who likes math
[] What would you have done differently?: I wouldn’t have stressed so much the week preceding the decision!!! [/ul]

Other Factors:

**General Comments & Advice: ** OMG I AM ECSTATIC! I got into Caltech but was secretly hoping for MIT. I was so prepared to get deferred! Best day of my life by far. To everyone that didn’t make it, you’re still amazing and you’ll go where you were meant to go (try for those Ivies lol). To everyone applying in the future, make sure you don’t click Submit until you’re 100% satisfied. That way, you won’t have any regrets.

yayitsme123 · December 14, 2013, 2:01pm

Decision: AdMITted!!!

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 770/720/760/9
[] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2250
[] ACT (breakdown):
[] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[] SAT II (subject, score): 760 MII; 780 Physics
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a
[] Weighted GPA: 96.66%
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a but top 5 out of 80
[] AP (place score in parentheses): Physics B (5), Spanish (5), English Lit(5) (my school only offers six I think, Spanish was self studied)
[] IB (place score in parentheses):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro, AP Calc AB, AP Studio Art, AP Compsci A, plus required classes
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: NONE
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): NOPE
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar, bausch and lomb science, wellesley book award, state testing thing, high honors all da time[/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): [/li]Technical Theater (9-12): Stage manager(12), Lighting operator(10-11)
FIRST Robotics (11-12): Captain(12), Coach (11)
Teaching Art Classes (9-12)
Physics Olympics (12): Captain
Math Tutoring (10-12)

[] Job/Work Experience: Assistant camp director at nonprofit art center; facepainting
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Lots of theater stuff and art center stuff
[li] Summer Experience: Summer@Brown materials engineering, NC State materials engineering, teaching art classes, contra dance camp, reading[/li][/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays: (slaved over them) [list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: (7/10) Contra dancing, I had a hard time with this one and kept rewriting it, turned out okay I guess![/li][] Department at MIT: (8/10) Course 3: MSE, talked about my visit and about discovering how cool nanothecnology is
[] Trait Most Proud Of: (10/10) Being observant! Wrote about quirky moments, and anagrams, and solving puzzles, and noticing things that other people don’t see. Had to rewrite it a couple of times, but I like how it came out a lot
[] World You Come From: (11/10) Loved this one! Wrote about my mildewy old house, my dad telling me about the constellations, and being inspired to ask the difficult questions. It flowed really well.
[] Significant Challenge: (9/10) robot breaking down right before a competition, and how I navigated the situation as coach
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: Wrote the optional culture essay about Sinterklaas and how weird the Dutch version of Christmas is… look up Zwarte Piet if you’re reading this
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Math teacher, I quote “Well it doesn’t directly say I want to adopt you, but…”[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: Spanish teacher, said it was one of the best he’s written, self studied for the AP Spanish with him since it’s not offered at my school
[] Counselor Rec: Good, he likes me
[] Additional Info/Rec: From executive director at art studio I work at, completely glowing made my mom cry
[] Interview: Went really well! I dorkily told her at the end that I had sewed up a hole in my sweater that morning so I could wear it… but otherwise it was good, I don’t remember it that well but we had a lot to talk about as people from public schools who sorta took on leadership roles
[] Art Supplement: Sent in 10 drawing images, some were kinda fun, fish in a tuxedo is my personal fave[/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: Pretty early, October 25th
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: CT
[] School Type: Tiny public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: XX
[] Income Bracket Range: dunno
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): [/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Extracurricular interests
[] Weaknesses: I’m not some crazy academic superstar, I just do well in school and find fun in other stuff
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I DONT KNOW!!!
[] What would you have done differently?: Nothing, apparently![/ul]

Other Factors:

**General Comments & Advice: AAAAAAAAAAAAH THIS IS SO CRAZY what!!! Have fun, reread your application a billion times and if you get bored, delete that part and rewrite it completely (I must have done this like six times with my essays haha) **

Nignig · December 14, 2013, 2:07pm

Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] ACT (breakdown): 35 (36 Math/Science, 34 English/Reading)
[] ACT superscore (breakdown): N/A
[] SAT II (subject, score): 800 Chem, 700 Math 2 (whoops)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.711
[] Weighted GPA: N/A
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[] AP (place score in parentheses): Physics C Mech/Enm, Calc AB, Chem (All 5s)
[] IB (place score in parentheses): Taking IB English HL
[] Senior Year Course Load: Analytical Chemistry at Eastern Mich Univ, Material Science at Schoolcraft College, AP Calc BC, IB English HL, World History, Gym, Health, some other college class I haven’t decided yet
[] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 5 or so
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Chem Olympiad Runner-up, Letter of Proclamation from Jackson County for charity work, Renaissance Award at DI Globals
[] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): Honor Roll, ap scholar, doubt this stuff really matters except not NMF [/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Co-founder of a club which receives broken computers and then refurbishes them then donates them to Senior Homes in need, DI our team goes to globals pretty much every year and we’re known for having great stuff, Boy Scout Life, Orchestra
[] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[] Volunteer/Community Service: Just the computer charity work and some other little things
[] Summer Experience: Research at Manipal Institute of Technology[/ul]

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[] Essays: about 7 for all, nothing amazing[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Hide and seek in the dark[/li][] Department at MIT: Chemical Engineering (Talked about taking Orgo II and self studying orgo 1 with MIT’s OCW
[] Trait Most Proud Of: Optimism
[] World You Come From: Divorced parents/computer charity
[] Significant Challenge: DI
[] Additional Essay/QB Essays: None
[] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Chemistry, probably great didn’t read[/li][] Teacher Recommendation #2: English, decent
[] Counselor Rec: No idea
[] Additional Info/Rec: N/A
[] Interview: GRAND
[] Art Supplement: N/A [/list]

Other[ul]
[] Date Submitted App: 11/1
[] U.S. State/Territory or Country: MI
[] School Type: Public 2k+
[] Ethnicity: Indian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket Range: 50k-70k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): I feel like taking Organic Chemistry II and Analytical Chemistry should have helped, charity work[/ul][/li]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Charity, chemistry, DI worlds, EC’s in general
[] Weaknesses: **** writing skills, awful GPA (freshman year)
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Probably GPA, I feel like if I had a 3.9 of 4 I would’ve been at least deferred
[] What would you have done differently?: Don’t fail freshman year! Change your name and paint yourself black![/ul]

Other Factors: Oh and indian

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