<p>Good luck to all EA deferred Athletes! RD decisions are coming up soon. Do you want share your results here? Thank you and good luck again!</p>
<p>Good luck to you as well. Hopefully we’ll have a better result this time around. We’ll just post in the designated sticky thread. </p>
<p>What sport?</p>
<p>its mit. a tech school. not USC.</p>
<p>@respectfully I PM you 
good luck again</p>
<p>Hahahah @ 5up3rG. :)</p>
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<p>I love it when people equate good academics/technical focus/etc. with having crappy sports teams/not caring about sports.</p>
<p>And if you were looking for a school with good sports/recruiting to make your comparison, USC was definitely not the right choice.</p>
<p>Sports is not considered a special sort of extracurricular by Admissions.</p>
<p>I fall into this category. Any footballers out there?</p>
<p>@PiperXP I wish MIT would give more weight to athletes. </p>
<p>It is soooooo hard to keep up with a hard academic schedule and good grades being a top athlete. My D is always on a bus, airplanes, on road trips for her sport. She manages to study in the most weird places and situations, hahahahaha. We are hoping for the best but we will take the rejection gracefully because we trust MIT knows what they are doing in admissions.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL!</p>
<p>Uhhhh, yes, it actually is. Coaches give admissions a list of people they’d be willing to “take” and then the committee goes from there. It’s not a sure thing but it’s sure as hell is better than math club or simply doing a varsity sport but not being recruited, etc.</p>
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<p>According to who? Traditionally, this is not how MIT operates. Things may have changed somewhat, but it sounds like you are way overestimating the value of being a recruited athlete–especially your phrase “the committee goes from there.”</p>
<p>@jk242 - Heh, you’re wrong.</p>
<p>@Feliz - It’s hard to keep up a hard academic schedule and spend a significant amount of time on ANY activity.</p>
<p>^^ I really was put off by the phrase “sure as hell is better than math club” I know many students use their school’s math club as a way to train for AMC/AIME and these types of activities, especially when the students do well, have always been valued by MIT.</p>
<p>I hope this hasn’t changed too much.</p>
<p>Hi!</p>
<p>The coach recruiting my son told me he does give a list on who he wants and then it’s up to Admissions who they take. He was honest that it after that he has no more input, but in my son’s sport the coach does need to be “position specific” as he needs balance on his squad.</p>
<p>Feliz, the athletes I knew at MIT seemed to have a better record of graduating in 4 years than the non-athletes. I wonder what the statistics say? Like your daughter, athletes get awesome time-management skills from the high school juggle. Also, they seem to have a real confidence that they can power through challenging situations.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say it is “better” than math club, just a different kind of confidence.</p>
<p>And I second this: GOOD LUCK TO ALL!</p>
<p>The coach I have corresponded with used the phrase that he would, “Support my application”</p>
<p>I’m not sure how much weight it carries.</p>
<p>Just as I was saying… coaches gives admissions a list of what they’ll take and admissions can go from there. It’s by no means guaranteed but it’s a tremendous help (coming from someone who knew a “recruited” athlete a few years back) and is certainly better than other, more regular extracurricular. </p>
<p>Quite simply, if you don’t believe the coaches have any say you’re dead wrong.</p>
<p>Agree with jk242. My older son who applied in 2008 in the same sport as my younger son had lower numbers than my current senior son and was recruited. He didn’t get in but was waitlisted. The need for my son’s position wasn’t as critical in 08 but is now. Will be interested to see what happens tomorrow.</p>
<p>GOO LUCK TO ALL!!! We will be busy all day with my D sports. Hopefully this will keep me busy and less nervous. :)</p>
<p>@ jk242 - No on claims that the coaches have no say. They can say all they want - and it does add another piece to the puzzle. Nonetheless, Admissions doesn’t consider athletics a better activity - simply a different one. It is certainly not considered above all other activities.</p>
<p>But hey, why believe me? It’ not like Admissions says this over and over again. Oh wait.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/more_questions.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/more_questions.shtml</a></p>
<p>*Recruited Athlete asked, “I have a question, how much does getting recruited help you in the admissions process, if at all?”</p>
<p>Athletic talent, like music, art, theater, etc. talent, is a talent that you bring to the admissions process. For music, we have our music faculty evaluate applicants’ talents; for athletes, we have our varsity coaches help us with evaluation. We are proud of having one of the largest athletics programs in the nation (I believe that only Harvard, a Division I school, has a larger number of varsity sports teams). MIT is a Division III athletics school, though, so athletics aren’t something that will get you in the backdoor. As Marilee says, there’s only one way to get into MIT, and it’s the hard way. *</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “A Typical Day on the Road”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/mityou/fall_recruitment_travel_schedule/a_typical_day_on_the_road.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/mityou/fall_recruitment_travel_schedule/a_typical_day_on_the_road.shtml)</p>
<p>I actually think that this is easier to do at MIT than at many other places for this very important reason: given the way we do admissions, every single one of our students is academically engaged and serious about their studies. Every one. We don’t admit any students who are not; we don’t make exceptions for legacies, or for athletes, or for any other reason. So the extra-curricular activities have cultures that support students pursuing a rigorous academic course load. This is true in all of our activities, and equally true on our sports teams; and is something that makes us somewhat unique</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/ea_deadline_your_questions_upd.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/ea_deadline_your_questions_upd.shtml</a></p>
<p>For athletics, MIT works a bit differently than the “recruitment” that other universities do. Certainly, we will recognize your athletic talent as a special talent that you will bring to MIT. This will help you in that we are interested in bringing students into the class with special talents like athletics, music, art, and more.</p>
<p>This question pops up frequently on whatever Answers Omnibus is posted at the time, and the answer never changes. Try doing your research.</p>