<p>^And the most important take-away point from that blog entry:
You’re free to devise your own heuristic.</p>
<p>Another question: </p>
<p>How long should I wait for a reply from my interviewer before getting worried?
I sent an e-mail a week ago and still haven’t heard back yet.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>You shouldn’t be worried, no matter what – it’s very early, and there’s plenty of time yet to have an interview. It’s summer, after all, and your EC could very well be on vacation and away from email. I would wait a week or two, then send a polite reminder email (“Hello, I was wondering if you had a chance to look over my interview request,”), then give it another week or two after that before contacting the EC office. </p>
<p>Incidentally, if you have a phone contact number for your EC, I would advise using that over email. Emails can be accidentally deleted, or lost in a spam filter, while phone calls can’t.</p>
<p>I was told that my interview is waived will it reduce my chances to get in? Thanks</p>
<p>I was wondering if there was a way that I could submit a URL for a video that doesn’t fall into any of the portfolio requirements–not even the “maker” because the video is not about creativity. Its a video of me doing my sport, but it isn’t a sport that MIT has so I can’t send it to the athletic department…</p>
<p>Hey Mollie,</p>
<p>I asked earlier if I could send a copy of my poster as part of my research portfolio, but how should I go about doing it? I have a pdf file, is there anywhere I can upload it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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No, MIT reports the stats for applicants whose interviews are waived together with those who chose to interview. Only those who were offered an interview but declined are less likely to get in (and incidentally, although this isn’t a universally-held opinion, I do not personally believe it’s a causal relationship). MIT wasn’t able to find an EC to interview you, so this won’t be held against you.</p>
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You can actually submit anything you want in the “optional” section of the application – the one that says something along the lines of “if there’s anything else you want the admissions office to know…”</p>
<p>If you let me know what the sport is (via PM if you’d prefer not to share in public), I’m happy to try and think of someone appropriate to contact in the athletics department, also.</p>
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My bet would be on postal mail or fax – I can’t think of anywhere on the application that you can upload a PDF. Email might also be okay, but I feel like postal mail and fax are the most reliable methods to ensure that your poster gets matched with your application. Can you print the poster on a regular-sized piece of paper without needing to look at it on a microscope? Make sure to include your name and birthdate to ensure that the poster will be matched with your folder.</p>
<p>Thanks for answering!
Well, the poster itself is 32" x 40" so shrinking it would make illegible, I think. Maybe could I upload the poster to a image-hosting site (i.e. imgur) and add the URL to the end of my optional essay?</p>
<p>Sorry, I haven’t been reading this thread this year (bad me), so I know that I am responding to a question that’s six weeks old, but the defining characteristic as to where your interview will be scheduled, is where your secondary school is located. So for example, if you are from (say) Lubbock Texas, but you are attending a distant school, say one of the United World Colleges (<a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_World_Colleges[/url]”>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_World_Colleges</a>), then you will have your interview based on where your school is based. If you are at UWCAtlantic, you will have an interview in South Wales, at UWCSEA, you will have a Singapore interview, at UWCCR, Costa Rica, and so on. </p>
<p>It is possible in rare circumstances, for your interview to be transferred from the area where your school is located to the area where your parent’s live. However, the preference is always not to do so. One of the important objectives of the interview is to try to put the students achievements into context. </p>
<p>So if a student has won (for example) the Burkina Faso medal in mathematics, does that go to the top math student in the country, the top 10 per cent, the top 50 per cent or what. That is something that an EC in the school’s country would know immediately, and something that EC local to the student’s home would not. As a result, the interview always defaults to be based on the school location.</p>
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This sounds like a great idea to me.</p>
<p>I will appreciate your answers friends. My question: I’m senior in the hs this year and My math teacher, who taught me at the school until this year, won’t teach my class this fall. Is it okay if she write me a recommendation?
Another question: If my intended major is computer science is it okay if I will send recommendation of my math teacher no comp science teacher?<br>
Thanks</p>
<p>Can I put the edx.org courses I took under additional classes although I don’t remember what grade I received? Also can my counselor form last year write my counselor recommendation , because she wants to write it.</p>
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Yes, absolutely – you don’t need to have a current teacher write your recommendations. A teacher you have had in past years is absolutely fine.</p>
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You should have the teacher who will write you the best letter write your recommendation. Don’t worry whether it’s in one subject or another, as long as you have one math/science and one humanities letter.</p>
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You certainly can write them, although presumably they’ll be less useful without a grade to go along with them.</p>
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Yes, any counselor at your school can write your recommendation, as long as your school doesn’t have a problem with it.</p>
<p>Thank you molliemit :)</p>
<p>Okay now I think this is dumb but my mother told me to put Puerto Rico as where my father is from. She brings up a valid point that Puerto Rico isn’t a state but a territory so what should I put?</p>
<p>Sorry, what’s the question? I don’t have access to the application, so I’m not sure if there’s a technical problem with entering PR as a parental origin. If not, then I don’t see any problem with it.</p>
<p>I have a question about ACT superscoring:</p>
<p>Would MIT use scores from an ACT (No Writing) session in the superscoring process if those scores were submitted with results from an ACT with Writing session, or would MIT completely disregard scores from an ACT (No Writing) session?</p>
<p>I am asking this question because I did better in my state-mandated ACT without Writing exam than in my ACT with Writing exam.</p>
<p>My suspicion is that MIT would indeed superscore ACTs with and without the writing section, but I don’t actually know for sure. Perhaps MITChris will pop in with the answer.</p>
<p>After looking and researching further into the optional music supplement section, I noticed that the music department only evaluated supplements in the fields of classical, jazz performance and classical and jazz composition. </p>
<p>[MIT</a> Music Program: Prospective Students - Admission Supplements](<a href=“Massachusetts Institute of Technology |”>Massachusetts Institute of Technology |)</p>
<p>Does that mean that if I play a unique instrument with songs that don’t fall into any of those categories, there is no way for me to include my recordings in the application?
Should I perhaps add it in with the miscellaneous supplements?</p>
<p>This is the first year I have seen that specific instruction on the music department’s webpage. I would suggest waiting until the instructions for submitting the music supplement are updated on the admissions webpage – the admissions office and the music department may still be ironing out changes to the supplement this year.</p>
<p>Incidentally, the [url=<a href=“Massachusetts Institute of Technology |”>Massachusetts Institute of Technology |]FAQ[/url</a>] on the music department’s webpage indicates that world music supplements are also acceptable:
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