@MomEof3 I mentioned Case and Carnegie Mellon, and maybe some others but he either stopped me after those or just focused on those two, since he then talked about having himself applied and been accepted to Case and CMU besides MIT. He may never have even heard of the other ones I mentioned.
When I was applying EA, I intended on submitting a research supplement for an engineering project of mine that was supposed to be done in October, but ended up submitting a maker supplement in its place because my data wasn’t complete yet…didn’t know we could wait and submit a supplement with February updates, and now I regret submitting my maker profile in place of my research :-/ I know the maker profile itself won’t hurt me…but I think submitting it in place of formal research was a regretful decision
My project at the national INTEL competition won a special prize a few weeks ago. Should I send its research paper? The only reason I didn’t do that was because the competition was happening at the time of EA deadlines.
Does anyone know if the other “adcoms” (not even sure if that’s a word, I think I read it somewhere) have the same sense of humor as Chris? I’m planning on sending in a video and I’m trying to gauge whether or not it will be well-received
most adcoms are more well-adjusted than me tbh
@MITChris how many kids ED elsewhere and go elsewhere from EA and deferred pool?
Hey guys,
According to the MIT website (http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates), the deadline for submitting Teacher Evaluations and the Secondary School Report is January 1st.
Since my school is currently on break, I am not sure if the documents will be uploaded by the given deadline.
Will they still be accepted shortly after January 1st?
@samc24 Yes, read the most recent blog posts for confirmation of my statement.
Hi, I submitted my application just now. I notice that the tracker says “No test results have been received.” However, I submitted my scores from college board last week. Any suggestions as to what action I need to take now?
Does MIT extend their regular action deadline this year? They did so in the last cycle.
@samc24 (http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/regular-action-deadline-q-a) I think they would accept.
Really riding on this application; it’s the only one I could submit w/o my dad taking complete control
Don’t know if this will get deleted, but here we go.
The Countdown…
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=797&iso=20170314T1828&year=2017&month=3&day=14&hour=18&min=28&sec=0&msg=MIT%20Decision%20Date
@MITChris – Can you advise how a student (deferred in the EA round) should inform MIT about a significant accomplishment - for example, becoming a Regeneron semifinalist? Should the student email admissions or should it wait until the February update is submitted by the school counselor? Thank you!
Have your schools sent the SSR and teacher evaluations yet? 
@MITChris For those of us who got deferred, would sending an additional letter of recommendation help? I know some other schools accept them…
Hey, is there anyone that got into MIT without submitting a slideroom profile? Also, is there any current MIT students that wouldn’t mind being pm for questions/advice?
Looking back, I should’ve made my “pleasure” essay more fun… I said I liked cleaning because of the intellectual stimulation I get from it… I actually like cleaning on the weekends, but I feel it may come off as contrived. Any input @ObitoSigma or @ManaManaWegi
Maybe this is the wrong discussion page, but looking back, I think I should give up on being a MIT 2021 hopeful. Let me explain, I am “qualified” academically. I have a 35 on the ACT, 790 in math 2, 730 in chemistry, 94 unweighted gpa, and 11 Aps. I take a lot of science aps even though I struggle in them because I’m really interested in science so I push myself to try my best in them. I took a research class for sophomore year, but the class was mostly reading research papers and summarizing them, which wasn’t something I liked to do. I’m more into researching and designing solutions, which I did in a contest I entered (though I didn’t win). But, that prevented me from being involved in computer science in my school due to a school policy of coding in sophomore year. So, I learned programming on my own and through my dad.
I honestly don’t have much stem ec’s to show for besides programming club or quiz bowl which I am only a member in. I didn’t do much ECs in my early years of high schools because I have two younger siblings and my parents work late, so I went home to take care of them. I do a lot of community service ec’s such as helping poor communities in the local government or helping in the school community.
In my passion essay, I mentioned that I liked to draw a lot. But between applying regular for MIT and a whole bunch of other schools, I forgot to submit a slideroom profile for drawing or anything other thing. I also just have a letter from my supervisor about the community thing which my guidance added to my profile ( idk if thats the SSR or something else) but I didn’t get a rec from him because I didn’t think it would add anything new to my profile.
So to sum it up, I know I screwed up and I don’t intend to come across as self-pitying or to make anyone feel bad or mad at me. But, I guess any inputs would be helpful?
@anonymous261 I’m not sure if you screwed up anywhere. The college admission process, through my limited experience, I’ve found to be extremely complicated. Admissions departments try to use common metrics like EC’s and scores and recs and … to determine the things that they really care about. At face value, a list of ecs, scores, good recs, hard classes… don’t really mean anything. They use the submitted materials to 1. determine if the student will succeed on campus (qualified) and 2. how the student will contribute to the goals of the institute. (diversity, cooperation, improvement of the world) MIT is quite kind in that they tell you almost exactly what they look for. It’s just, the metrics that are used are not perfect. There are often so many variables that go into what a student chooses to do/accomplish in high school, and applications don’t do a perfect job of capturing that. And the thing is, I think the admissions officers know this is true. The admissions department already has so much information on each applicant, and there are so many that including more metrics in the application is difficult. How do you uncover the personal qualities (those which are so important to MIT) from every type of applicant across the globe in one application?
My point is that it’s possible that you have done nothing wrong at all, that the application metrics didn’t account for the variables that make you love science and improving the world, whatever.
The best advice I think of is if you really like something, you gotta go pursue it. Often the best opportunities/ most rewarding accomplishments are the most hard-worked-for ones. MIT likes to use this metric, y’know, with ecs, competitions, portfolios…
Or perhaps the metrics MIT uses did do a good job and determined that you weren’t a better fit than the other ~1500 admits. It’s really hard to say.
@pocrocodro This is a weird subject because MIT says “just be honest.” Well, I think we know (to some degree) what MIT wants out of this essay. We know they care about “prioritizing balance,” and that’s one of the most important qualities of the institute that goes unnoticed. So there is some incentive to write about something that exemplifies this quality in some way. For example, if you are kid who loves doing retired IMO problems on the bus ride home but also likes professional Counter-strike tournaments, maybe you choose to write about the CSGO (this is a video game if you don’t know.) Of course, MIT will tell you “we have no preference,” yet it seems the question is trying to uncover a specific quality that they care about. Or perhaps the prompts can take different roles in which characteristics they exemplify. Again, very hard to understand what a “good answer” is.
For me, I just wrote about something I love to do, completely unrelated to academics. Can you guess what I wrote about ;)? But it may be wise to choose to showcase a quality that MIT says they like. I think though, most importantly, all essays should communicate important characteristics/beliefs/values/personal qualities of the applicant, as that is valuable to MIT, and they are clear and honest in saying that it is.
(sorry for any bad grammar, not gunna check this :p)