<p>Chris, may I e-mail an additional information to my application such as a foreign standardized test result and ranking or should I fax it instead?</p>
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<p>Oh, thank you.
Yes, I have already listed MIT as a score recipient. Actually, I was worried about the time gap. I mean… because I didn’t check the SAT box, I was wondering why would MIT wait for my SAT scores. But, anyway. Thank you for the reply.</p>
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OMG Chris!! You like METAL!!
WoW!! That’s so cool. \mm/</p>
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<p>If a student is to take a SAT II and asks CB to send the score to MIT (w/o score choices), will MIT receive</p>
<p>1). That SAT II score only, or
2). That score + any existing SAT I and SAT II scores?</p>
<p>The answer might be readily available elsewhere, but someone might care to type 1 or 2.</p>
<p>^ If you didn’t use the score choice option, then it’s 2.</p>
<p>If I submit an extra rec. letter, how do I know that MIT has received it?</p>
<p>There’s no verification available for supplemental material.</p>
<p>@sensei: you can probably email them. at least that was what i did.</p>
<p>MIT Chris –</p>
<p>I know that the MIT admissions site says to look at the mymit status at January 26 to see if anything is missing and then FAX the missing piece. I do understand.</p>
<p>What is weird is that MIT has everything except the SSR, which was sent together in one packet with all the material that MIT says it has, and which all was sent in a very, very long time ago (at least two months ago). Faxing in a document as fundamental to the entire application as the SSR risks making the student appear careless, in my view, when in fact MIT should have this thing floating around somewhere! I can understand a rec going missing or the interview form taking time to wend its way in, but faxing in the SSR at the last moment (when it would logically be the very first thing sent from the school) would seem to create a poor impression, and this concerns me. Any reassurance here?</p>
<p>^They don’t care and know it’s probably a problem on their end. That said, wait for the blog post that says they’ve finished processing everything before you resend anything. It’s very likely they have it.</p>
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This is actually a fairly common issue for people – when documents arrive at MIT, the administrative staff separates documents by type, so it’s not unusual for some documents to be processed before others, even if they were all sent together.</p>
<p>When MIT has processed the mail, if your report is still listed as missing (which it likely won’t be), you can send another. This does not carry any negative consequences toward an applicant in any way. MIT understands that documents sometimes go missing, whether in the mail or on their end.</p>
<p>mollie answered the question, but no, placido, we do not hold any prejudice against sending any part of the application via fax. in fact, we prefer fax to mail!</p>
<p>Is it too late to send in an additional teacher evaluation from a teacher who worked with me on a research project? I’ll fax it tomorrow if it’s going to be accepted.</p>
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<li><p>On the midyear report, is it okay to explain a why you got a certain grade? I got a C+ in one of my classes, but this was b/c the teacher forgot to put in one of my assignments (which would have made it an A). Should I explain this to them? Would they likely just dismiss the “excuse”? Would they accept a verification from my teacher that it is an A? Will this grade even have an impact on my admissions (it was in a pretty minor class)?</p></li>
<li><p>I sent a fee waiver request around Dec 27, it still hasn’t shown up on mymit, should I contact them?</p></li>
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<p>technut - </p>
<p>fax it </p>
<p>jobbin - </p>
<p>1) sure
2) yes, email <a href=“mailto:admissions@mit.edu”>admissions@mit.edu</a></p>
<p>Chris, my school reports grades on a 100 point scale (as semester averages.) Would you consider anything above a 90 as an A?</p>
<p>^I think you’re supposed to report your grades the way your school reports them, Jimmy. If you got a 93 for a semester average, you put 93 in the box. If you got an 89, put 89. You don’t have to transcribe a “number-grade” to a letter scale. In fact, I think it’s not desired. All of my kid’s grades are numbers. There’s nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>^No no, I’m going to put them as numbers as they appear on my transcript, of course, but I was just wondering what would the equivalent of an A be in the admissions officers’ eyes. Like is a 90->100 an A, an 80->90 a B, or something like that.</p>
<p>^Oh. In that case, who cares? 
I’m just teasing you, Jimmy; not trying to embarrass you … but really, who cares? They’ll see the number as the number. lol. I can’t imagine that they’d take the time to even transcribe the numbers in their own heads … “hmmm. a 90 … now is that a low A or a high B?” They WON’T care.</p>
<p>Truly, Jimmy, I can surely appreciate your sincerity and your anxiety … we’re familiar with both those qualities at my house :), but you needn’t worry about such things.</p>
<p>^You just totally overplayed my anxiety; I was merely curious.</p>