<p>Mollie: In response to your post… If I am a permanent resident and a greencard holder but not a US citizen, will I be competing in the international pool? Thank you very much for your help.</p>
<p>If you are a permanent resident/green card holder, then you are not considered an international student. You are not part of that international quota and you may apply EA. There is only one extra step you must complete: You must send the MIT admissions office a copy of your green card.</p>
<p>Hi! I’m a high school student, will be a senior in the fall. Straight to the point, my question is: how will an in-school suspension for bullying in my sophomore year affect my application?</p>
<p>Assume I’m a typical applicant, 4.0 GPA, 800s on three SAT subject tests, and near-perfect SAT score. Good extracurriculars, volunteer work, etc. The incident occurred in an era of my life that I deeply regret and I have since continued with a changed outlook.</p>
<p>So I guess what I’m really asking is, is the suspension an automatic rejection from MIT?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>^ Hmm. I don’t think you’ll automatically be rejected. Assuming this will be reported to MIT (probably by your guidance counselor or whoever writes your secondary school report), you can talk to the person writing about it and have them talk about your development afterwards, if you can.</p>
<p>Certainly, you should talk about this in one of your essays (possibly in a supplement - I think this could warrant using the supplement space). Your attitude - “I deeply regret and I have since continued with a changed outlook” - is a good one. If you can walk through why you made the decisions that you did, and what changes in your outlook have occurred, I think that will help a lot. Further, if you have good teacher recommendations that include talking about what type of person you are now, that will also speak to MIT about you having learned your lesson. (If your teachers knew you as a sophomore and want to talk about the before and after, that would probably be good for MIT to hear. Though make sure that they also highlight the good things about you. Focusing your entire application around this suspension wouldn’t be great, either, so I don’t want to make it sound like that’s what you should do.)</p>
<p>A patent would probably be listed under the “awards” section. But doing the actual inventing/discovering of things that leads to a patent could be listed in the extracurriculars section, if you do it outside school.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, you’ll only get replies from me around 7 AM Boston time and 9 PM Boston time. 
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<p>You can certainly count political participation as an extracurricular activity, if it’s something that’s important to you. </p>
<p>I don’t actually have access to the application, so I can’t list all the sections from memory. If you look in last year’s results thread (stickied in this forum), the template has a pretty good approximation of the sections in the actual application, but I don’t know if anything significant is missing.</p>
<p>Hi Mollie/Piper/anyone,</p>
<p>I’m looking at the MyMIT application part 2.6 right now, and I just had a question on test scores. I know that I can either send the SAT I (incl. writing) or the ACT plus writing, but I was wondering if I could send in my SAT I as well as my ACT without writing, even though the app only indicates for the ACT plus writing. If so, would I just leave the English+Writing/Writing blank?</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, for the research portfolio, if I have constructed a scientific poster for my research project, would it be acceptable to send a pdf file instead of/as well as the abstract?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I believe MIT now only accepts the ACT plus writing. You can certainly try to add the scores, and it’s not as though there are any problems with doing so, but I’m not sure you’ll be able to submit the score without anything in the writing field.</p>
<p>Yes, you can send your poster in addition to or in place of an abstract. I would probably still send an abstract, unless you have the abstract printed on the poster – anything to make the poster more clear is better.</p>
<p>Hi: i would like to ask (1) if a US citizen who graduates from a high school overseas, is considered a US applicant (and therefore allowed to apply EA) or will he be counted among the international pool? (2) Will he be compared to the normal standards expected of US high school graduates, or to the standards/scores/stats of the country from which he graduated? Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi! If our school uses Naviance, how do the teachers send in the evaluation form that MIT wants them to attach with the evaluation? Does it need to be scanned in? Thanks!</p>
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The determination is by citizenship, so US citizens living abroad are eligible to apply EA and are considered in the domestic pool.</p>
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Well, nobody’s really compared to some country-wide standard, anyway, but the admissions office will consider the opportunities available to you at your high school and in the country where you’re living.</p>
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Matt McGann says [here](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/early-action-updates1]here[/url]:”>Early Action Updates | MIT Admissions):</a> “It is okay if your teacher or counselor does not include the MIT cover sheet with their letter. We prefer to receive it, but letters without it are at no disadvantage… if your school sends its documents electronically via Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then submitted; there is no electronic version of this form.”</p>
<p>So your teachers can scan the MIT form and send it via Naviance. Alternately, they can just include the points for evaluation within the text of the letter.</p>
<p>Hi Mollie,</p>
<p>Is the MIT application supposed to be online already? I was surprised to login to MyMIT and find it there when I expected it to come online later this month or early September.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>It’s generally available sometime in August or early September – it just depends on when the admissions office is ready to release it. Last year it was a bit late, this year it’s a bit early.</p>
<p>Thank you Mollie!</p>
<p>Hi. Just a quick question about AP scores. I took Calculus AB in school, but then self studied and took the BC exam. So in the section asking for courses/ AP scores, should I put down Calculus AB or BC as the “course taken”, because the course I took and the test I took are different.</p>
<p>Do you have room to somehow indicate that you took the AB course but the BC test? I’d try to squeeze in that information, either on the AP section, or in the additional information section. It’s useful to note that you self-studied and took a more difficult test than you were prepared for by your classes in school.</p>
<p>Is the “Please tell us more about your cultural background and identity in the space below (100 word limit)” optional? The sexual orientation question directly below it explicitly states that it is optional, but this question doesn’t.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s optional. From [Matt’s</a> blog](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/your-freshman-app-questions]Matt’s”>Your Freshman App Questions | MIT Admissions), last year:
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<p>On the Application where it mentions Non-Scholastic awards what exactly are they looking for? I mean I have put down most of my major non scholastic awards (which are athletic) under activities with the description of said activity. So what should I put here?</p>
<p>This info from the MIT website helped me out on this one: [Application</a> question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/application_question_scholasti]Application”>Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? | MIT Admissions)</p>