<p>In India my friends everything is quite different , even though some of you may disagree.</p>
<p>@Tizil7- lol… I actually have much more horrible scores than that!!! And not so great SAT’s- 1930!</p>
<p>Still I am applying to MIT! I don’t know why though…</p>
<p>And moreover the threshold thing that guy was mentioning might definitely true for the US domestic applicant but somehow the adcoms have to realize that the situation here in India is different and for the worse… They have to take that into account as well…</p>
<p>Just throwing it out there, from my talks with the people I know at MIT, you won’t get in if you haven’t been to any legit international olympiads.
Sorry to break it to you, if you didn’t know it already.</p>
<p>The kid from my school who went to MIT (I lived in Mumbai), had 2380 in his SAT and a chair position at the Hague MUN. When it comes to HYPSM know your limits ^^.</p>
<p>I have 2190 SAT, SAT Phy 800, Chem 780, ACT Composite 34, ACT Writing 10, 92% 10th ICSE, 91% 11th State board. My essays are decent. What are my chances? Another site indicates i have middling to higher chance.</p>
<p>EC: I finished 2nd in National Quiz Cahampionship</p>
<p>Hi. None of us represent the MIT admissions committee, hence all our chances will be biased in some way or another. The only sane hope of having yourself fairly chanced would be to:</p>
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[<em>] Apply to MIT and wait for your decision
[</em>] Ask MITChris on college confidential’s MIT forum.
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<p>Yep that’s true. All people get to see are stats on CC. And none of us here is qualified to “chance” someone just on the basis of stats. </p>
<p>@framed (if you’re previous comment was for me)- Yes sir, I do know my limit. And moreover none of us here have met in person and none of us here judge anyone just on the basis of stats…</p>
<p>Thx gals & guys</p>
<p>Framed has a point. I wouldn’t say the same about HYPS though. Their admissions process is more random (and more wholistic in my view than that of MIT).
As far as I know, and from what I learned of the whole admissions business (and trust me I learned a whole lot more than most people do), is that Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford all look for a burning passion aside from academic overachievement. If you don’t have these then to put it mildly, you aren’t on an equal footing, especially from the international applicant pool. As for the people who do, it’s just whether they are a right fit for the class these universities are building, which is obviously dependent on luck. Keep in mind, top universities like these are looking to accept people, not reject them, a fact most of us forget during the whole process. They’re building a class. If you don’t fit in, too bad. When they say that your achievements are extraordinary but they don’t have space, they mean it. Chances are you just got plain unlucky. Accept it, it’s for your own good.
As for MIT, it looks for the same passion but only a very focused one in technical fields. If you think you’re not in that pool, too bad, because most of the other streams are filled up by American students themselves (mostly because the number of internationals at a given point in time at MIT is capped by federal law). Only one in hundred would be one who gets in without a flair for science/math. Think about it yourself, MIT takes ~4-6 kids each year from India. Around ~10 kids make it to the international math/physics/chem olympiad each year. Extrapolating from the fact that most of the kids have stellar grades, by virtue of their demonstration of scientific prowess from a country as overpopulated as ours, do you have any achievement which would deem you more fit than them to be admitted to arguably the finest institution of technology?</p>