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<p>I sent this exact question to admissions. They said to send both scores.</p>
<p>So my last question was answered wonderfully, and so I come again seeking help.</p>
<p>Is there anywhere on the application that it would be acceptable to put down volunteer hours? Because of my soccer commitment I have never been able to commit to a “program” per say that has me work at a hospital or work at a retirement home, but I do do volunteering around the community whenever I can. I was wondering if there was a good place to list a number of hours I’ve logged? I was considering the Non-Scholastic awards section but it is not exactly an award? Any help will be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!!</p>
<p>You’re most certainly free to list volunteering as one of your extracurriculars, or as a summer activity (if appropriate). It doesn’t need to be in a formal program, certainly.</p>
<p>You also might consider writing about volunteering for one of your essays – the “world you come from” essay might be particularly appropriate.</p>
<p>Are our chances at MIT affected in ANY WAY by the other applicants at our school? For example, a science giant who went to RSI will be applying with me EA. Should I wait to apply RD, or is there no difference?</p>
<p>Hi, regarding the optional maker supplement, is it something that is evaluated by the admission officers themselves? (As opposed to the music supplement being sent to music faculty, for example). And can it be pretty much anything that I think will show my creativity? Or should it be something of significant merit? Because I don’t have anything as awesome as a potato cannon, or as useful as a computer program, which were the examples the supplement page listed.</p>
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Nope. MIT applications aren’t read by school or by region, so your application is unlikely to be read by the same people as other applicants from your school. And the readers are not trying to compare people to each other, anyway.</p>
<p>If you want to apply EA, then apply EA. Other applicants from your school being accepted or rejected won’t affect your odds of admission either positively or negatively.</p>
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Anything that you’ve made and that you’re proud of. The examples are not meant to limit you in any way – if you think it’s awesome, then it’s awesome. </p>
<p>If I were applying now, I’d definitely send pictures of sweaters that I’ve designed and knit, which I don’t think are terribly useful for anybody but me.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask about transfer questions, but:</p>
<p>I’m planning to apply for spring semester transfer, and as the application form’s upload date has been delayed, I was wondering if anyone happened to know the word count maximum for the “Why MIT?” essay (that is, from previous years).</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I took 2 computer science courses my junior year, and I was wondering where to put them in Page 7, Part 2 of my application. Should I list it under math or science?</p>
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I don’t know, myself. There was a transfer thread last year ([here](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/1487931-mit-transfer-fall-2013-a-14.html]here[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/1487931-mit-transfer-fall-2013-a-14.html)</a>), so maybe some of last year’s applicants are still following it, and you could post your question there.</p>
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I would go with science, all things being equal, but there’s quite a bit of flexibility in how you fill out the self-reported coursework section, so feel free to put them anywhere you think they make sense.</p>
<p>I put my computer science course in the other section. I was wondering about religion courses: should I just explain that my school has required religion courses in the box beneath the reported coursework, or just list them all? I would be putting down 6 courses in all if I did report them.</p>
<p>What should I do if my interviewer does not respond to my email? I sent it to him Friday night and still do not have a response. I suppose since there haven’t been any work days since I sent my email I should wait at least another day, but I’m a bit worried that I might forget about the email and then it will already be late October.</p>
<p>Hi, I have question about reporting SAT/subject test/TOEFL scores with the transfer application. I took all of my tests in late 2010/early 2011, and sent them all to admissions. Now, for my transfer application, can I re-send the same scores, or should I retake all of the tests, or can I choose to retake some (maybe just the SAT) and use the older scores for the rest (subject tests, and TOEFL)?</p>
<p>Please let me know - and thanks!</p>
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<li><p>It is Labor Day Weekend. </p></li>
<li><p>If you can’t remember an email about your MIT interview, maybe forgetting is merciful. </p></li>
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<p>I apologize for the snark, but Mollie is much too polite to do it, and it needed doing. If you were pulling our collective leg with this, good job, you got me :-)</p>
<p>Thank you, Mollie, for the advice and link! I figured I’d try looking through other old transfer threads before asking over there, and I found it. For anyone else who’s curious, the word limit is 500 words.</p>
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Deep breaths. 
Please give your interviewer at least a week to ten days before sending a follow-up email – as IxnayBob noted, this weekend was Labor Day weekend, and your EC could have been traveling or otherwise enjoying being away from email. </p>
<p>If you don’t hear anything for a week or two, then don’t hear anything a week or two after your follow-up, then you can contact the admissions office and ask to be re-assigned to another EC. There’s plenty of time to have an interview – no need to worry right this moment.</p>
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You can send any old scores you’d like, and re-take whatever you’d like. Totally up to you.</p>
<p>First-time posting, so please bear with me if I make a mistake here:</p>
<p>Is it possible to have 2 teachers fill in Evaluation_A (STEM)? My son has 1 Math Prof who sorta knew him quite well (since he did very well in the Prof’s very challenging proof-based Math course). And there’s another Physics Prof who also knew the ever inquisitive, intuitive & risk-taking sides of him.</p>
<p>He’s got another Humanities teacher for write his Evaluation_B already, and his current employer/supervisor at the University Math Tutoring Lab to do his Supplemental Rec.</p>
<p>So, we’re not sure right now whether he could have each of his Math & Physics Prof fill in a separate Eval<em>A, or, should one do Eval</em>A, and the other do a 2nd Supplemental, or should he not have more than 1 doing either Eval_A or Supplemental? (I’m sure he’ll be really torn if he has to choose only 1).</p>
<p>There should only be one Evaluation A. If he chooses to have both the math and physics professors write letters, he should designate one as the “official” Evaluation A, and the other as the “supplemental” letter (with the supplemental document cover sheet), but both will be considered equally. </p>
<p>Two supplemental letters is not a totally crazy number, but it’s worth carefully considering whether each additional letter is necessary. If he feels that both are useful and necessary, though, by all means send two.</p>
<p>Is a supplement from a research assistant (basically some professors’ tech, but she also does high school science fair judging) acceptable in place of the head professors that run a lab? Most of my communication has been through her, and she kind of helped me get started in the lab. Alternatively, will MIT accept a copy-pasted rec from the Intel STS application, which does require the head professor’s input as far as I can tell? </p>
<p>Sorry about the silly question about interviewing 
He was travelling.</p>
<p>I’m sure the Intel rec is fine, although it might be worth noting that the rec was written for that purpose. If you do have the faculty member write a new recommendation, it’s typical practice (for grad school applications, for example) for the faculty member to have the person who’s worked most closely with you draft the letter, then the faculty member can edit it to his or her satisfaction and sign it. </p>
<p>It’s not that MIT will have a problem with a letter from a research tech, but I’m putting on my professional scientist hat for a second to encourage you to ask the professor, rather than the technician. A letter from a professor is likely to be more useful than a letter from a tech, at MIT and anywhere else you choose to submit the letter.</p>
<p>Thanks, Molly! BTW, would you mind clarifying some of the factors that we need to take into account in “carefully considering whether each additional letter is necessary”?</p>
<p>The admissions office will read anything an applicant sends, but there’s only a limited amount of time available per application. Therefore, it’s important to keep the application as concise and on-point as possible – you want to send neither too little information nor too much. This is a general principle of applications, and isn’t limited just to MIT or to undergraduate admissions in general; when I’m applying for a grant or a fellowship, I follow the same rules in my own career.</p>
<p>For letters of recommendation specifically, the applicant should think about the unitary picture of him or her that’s being presented by all the letters, and shouldn’t send two letters that give the same perspective. Overall, it is better to have a more efficient application than a redundant one.</p>
<p>For supplemental letters of recommendation, Matt has the following advice ([here](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/supplemental_material]here[/url]):”>Supplemental material | MIT Admissions)):</a>
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