<p>i’m doing research with a professor in taiwan, and i think i will get a recommendation from her.
my question is that if she prefers to write the letter in chinese, do I or does someone else need to translate the letter for her?</p>
<p>i remember seeing the answer to my question somewhere at the MIT admissions website, but I can’t find it =(</p>
<p>also, just curious, how big/significant/active is the badminton club at MIT? badminton is probably the second most important factor (other than academics) in my college choices, so any feedback on this would be very helpful.</p>
<p>As for the badminton club, their website is [url=<a href=“http://badminton.mit.edu/]here[/url”>http://badminton.mit.edu/]here[/url</a>]. I would really recommend contacting them to ask any questions about the club – as a former club sport member/officer myself, I know I was always happy to get emails from prefrosh. Also, if you’re admitted and attend CPW, there will be an activities fair and an athletics fair, where the badminton club will almost certainly have a booth and be available to talk with you.</p>
<p>I graduated from my high school in May 2011 and i am from india. I have studied under the CBSE curriculum. Will i have any chance of gettin in if i apply this year for fall 2012? however i come from a politically unstable region and this has had its impact on the academics over here more so last year (my senior year), we could attend school only for about 3 months out of the 9 month curriculum due to prolonged violence. But our exams were to be held at a national level irrespective of our situation and ofcourse our school results deteriorated, although im in the top few in my school, the national rank isn very good. i could manage a mere 80.1% this year, however the exams bfre the turmoil i had 93%, 11th i had 92%,10th 95.8%(national exam again with a recognition of being in top0.1% of succesful candidates in the country) and 9th 94%. Recently i appeared for Phy SAT test and scored 760. will i have any chance of getting in if i apply since my final report of 12 is so low?
Also will i need to do SAT I also or will toefl do, i should score well on it than the SAT exams .
Please reply, im really passionate about my major and that should show in any of my essays that i will have to write.</p>
<p>I can’t give you a chance based on your numbers because that’s not how our admissions process works. But you should not be worried about the instability: we will take that into context as we process your app.</p>
<p>u mean i dn have a chance or or u mean u can’t give me a surety when u say ’ can’t give you a chance based on your numbers '…also about the SAT I, do i need to take SAT or TOEFL</p>
<p>Hi, it’s me again. Thank you for answering my questions, MITChris.</p>
<p>I have another one. How important are grades for international applicants? Or does their credibility (and hence importance) depend on educational system?
And… if they are important… is there any way I could find out what grades are more or less “okay” for someone educated in my country?
Thank you.</p>
<p>Thank you. The reason I asked is that in our educational system high school grades aren’t used for university admission and therefore teachers don’t really care about their accuracy (at least, in my school). Grades were however used for admission to high school, and in middle school, when the grades were important, my average grade was 5.8/6, which was very very good. Now, in the current school it’s dropped to 5.0-5.15/6 Needless to say I’m bitter about this, but awfully worried, too. I talked to my school principal about it and she admitted that grades in high school carry little relevance, but she didn’t seem to see it as a big problem, because she’s used to test-scores-based admission.
Well, I’m still at least top 10% of my class (but I’m sure it’s actually higher), so it shouldn’t be that bad… But then… all those straight A’s students…
Is it a good idea, to ask my principal to explain the situation on the transcript?
The worst part is that I have no idea, if what’s true for my school is true for other schools in my country as well… </p>
<p>I’m so so sorry, I guess, my questions sound like “please tell me if I’ll get into MIT”. I really don’t mean them this way, I swear. I just feel bad about asking my teachers to write recommendations and generally make all that fuss around me, only for my application to be outright rejected as a “is it a joke, girl?”.
I’m probably not the first one who sees the accomplishments of other applicants and suddenly feels like a very little piece of nothing…
I’m sorry again and thank you for your patience =)</p>
<p>I think it’s worth adding that the general idea here (among teachers, but not only) is “you learn for yourself and not for the grades”. And so I did… It’s not like I didn’t care about school work anymore (as I said, I’m at least top 10%), but I didn’t feel the pressure to be “the best” - rather prefered to spend more time on the subjects I like and my other interests. It’s only now that I find out that my high school record is something that may kill my application… =( But I appreciate the fact that many other applicants are in the same exact situation, so I just wondered how is it viewed by MIT admission officers.
Well, I guess I’ll just stop freaking out (“I buried my future”) and will just apply and see what happens. </p>
<p>And my last (I hope) question. The results of nearly every important contest in my country aren’t there before the admission decisions let alone application deadline. Is then a good idea to mention on my application that I take part in them and then maybe update? (or should I only mention the contests that already ended?)</p>
<p>I want to know how students can send their supplementary projects to the admissions for review? I won some awards for my art works both from school and outside, so how can I send my art-works/sketches (the prize winners) to the admissions?</p>
<p>However, if I wish to send them by mail should I re-sketch those and get attested by the school or should I photocopy those and then get those attested?</p>
<p>Its nice to see that MIT admissions folks are reading and replying on this forum. Thanks a lot guys for your postings, they are very informative.</p>
<p>Does MIT admit students after their junior year in HS ? If a student applies and get reject will it hurt their chances when applying again during their senior year?</p>
<p>we sometimes do. but there usually has to be a compelling reason for you to not complete your senior year. it rarely disadvantages applicants however.</p>
<p>Currently I volunteer for an organization (the RCS in my country). Although I am a volunteer of the RCS, the RCS would not provide me any certificate till I have completed my active volunteering for the RCS for 1 year. However, RCS agreed to provide me with a recommendation letter certifying my involvement in the RCS Youth Project. Would that do?</p>
Needless to say I’m bitter about this, but awfully worried, too. I talked to my school principal about it and she admitted that grades in high school carry little relevance, but she didn’t seem to see it as a big problem, because she’s used to test-scores-based admission.