<p>Uh, whatever scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions you’ve won, respectively ;)</p>
<p>@mollie and chan - </p>
<p>I don’t actually know either, but I would email <a href=“mailto:questbridgeinfo@mit.edu”>questbridgeinfo@mit.edu</a> as resilient said. That’s the first time I’ve come across this specific scenario.</p>
<p>Ok.Thank you for your answer:)</p>
<p>When letter of recommendations are sent to MIT, what should the return address be? the address of the applicant, the high school, or the teacher recommending the student? thanks!</p>
<p>What does the “Are you registered ?” question mean in part1?</p>
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Any address is fine, so long as it’s an address to which the letter can be returned in the event of a problem with the postal service.</p>
<p>Under self-reported course work, when we’re choosing the level of the course, does “Honors” apply strictly to classes with the name “honors” in it and give a GPA boost?
I’m not sure if “Accelerated English” is classified as an “Honors” course, since it is the accelerated track at our school, or if it simply goes under “Regular College Preparatory” since it does not give a GPA boost.</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t know that we have an ironclad policy on it, since there is so much variation between school. I think it is fair to place anything that is accelerated beyond the normal track as ‘honors.’ Was that a 9th/10th class?</p>
<p>Yes, it was Accelerated Eng I in 9th and Acc Eng II in 10th.
The next courses in this accelerated track are AP Lang (11th) and AP Lit (12th).</p>
<p>I mean, I suppose you could check ‘honors’ for that and we wouldn’t be mad or anything. But most people who did that track don’t, and I don’t think it would help. </p>
<p>The ‘honors’ checkbox is to help us clearly see honors classes that don’t initially appear to be honors classes based on their title, if that makes any sense.</p>
<p>Question: If an applicant has already done the interview --and is still working on the app–
How long does it take for the interviewer to send in the notes/letter etc of that interview?
How is it connected with the applicant since the app is still in the works?</p>
<p>Question: For an applicant being recruited by an ivy (which can offer a likely letter) - do you have any advice for said applicant who has had MIT on the top of the list for nearly 2 years?
It would be foolish to turn down the likely for no guarantee --and yet MIT has been a top choice. It is a quandry. We do understand that MIT has no process for athletes (even with stellar grades/test scores etc) Will MIT ever consider the talent that is having to pass on MIT?</p>
<p>First question: </p>
<p>Depends on the interviewer, but it doesn’t matter since it isn’t reviewed until your application is. And it’s tied to your application through our Secret Application Magic. </p>
<p>Second: </p>
<p>What do you mean, “turn down the likely”? It is my understanding that likely letters are only sent as a yield tool (meaning: they make you think warm fuzzy thoughts about the Ivy), not as some sort of requirement (i.e. “you must not apply anywhere else for this likely to apply”). But we don’t do likely letters of any kind so I guess I’m not the best resource. </p>
<p>We do have a process for athletes, by the way. If you’re a top athlete at a sport we offer, by all means you should contact the coach, who, should s/he be sufficiently interested, will advocate on your behalf to the office, which is always a good thing. We just don’t reserve a certain number of spots for coaches to have universal discretion which distinguishes us from some other schools. </p>
<p>Check [MIT</a> Admissions: The Freshman Application](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/index.shtml#coach]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/index.shtml#coach). </p>
<p>If you really like MIT, you should apply, as long as another school to which you want to apply doesn’t forbid you as a condition of applying there. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the implications of this likely letter, or am unfamiliar with the specificities of its process (likely letters are different everywhere). I guess I don’t see what the dilemma is?</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>If a likely letter is offered by the school and accepted by the scholar-athlete, then–in essence–the scholar-athlete is making the commitment to the school to attend. Think of it as an ivy’s National Letter of Intent…with some subtleties.
However, basis of accepting it is that it’s with the integrity to attend, which means that said scholar-athlete may be offered that letter-- with a short time frame to choose to attend because the coach will offer it elsewhere quickly because of the pressure to recruit the best/brightest. Often this process takes place during the fall before the MIT EA Dec 15 date.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info re the interview and app coordination. Everyone likes magic!</p>
<p>fogfog - </p>
<p>I can’t comment on the likely letter’s intricacies. You should certainly contact the MIT coaches. And if the likely letter DOES come - then you’ll have a tough choice to make.</p>
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>As I am from NZ, would it be OK for my counselor to mail her recommendation, my transcript, and my two teacher recommendations all in the same envelope so that they all arrive at the same time?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi MITChris,</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing up my previous question! Now I have another one. My counselor moved to a new school in my district for this year. I don’t really know my new counselor, so is it ok to ask the previous counselor to fill out the entire Secondary School Report?</p>
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It is always okay for all of the school material (or anything) to arrive in the same envelope.</p>
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<p>yes we know that–
kiddo has had regular coach contact–the MIT coaches have been following kiddo for more than a yr…which was why we asked the initial question.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>@pascal - </p>
<p>yes.</p>
<p>Hi,
In addition to the required evaluations A and B, I was thinking of sending an additional recommendation from a robotics mentor (robotics is a major activity for me, and this recommendation would attest to problem-solving abilities that probably wouldn’t be mentioned in the standard recommendations), or maybe getting a recommendation from my research mentor. Are two extra recommendations too much? Would either of these boost my application?</p>
<p>Thanks,
frizz11</p>