<p>Okay, so I submitted my MIT Maker Portfolio via SlideRoom last week with an object-tracking program that I created over the summer to accompany my main application. I was looking over it again today and realized that I made a mistake in my portfolio.</p>
<p>One of the question asks: "Give a two to three sentence elevator pitch. What did you make, how does it work? If you are submitting a computer science project, please include a link to the GitHub page."</p>
<p>I realized that I only wrote the description but somehow completely missed the part about including a link to my code. Do you think this would hurt my potential chances at MIT? Should I contact the admissions office about the mistake and ask if I can send them the link some other way, or would that just be admitting that I didn't read the instructions properly and make things worse? I uploaded a few videos to demonstrate my program, so they should have a good idea of what it does. Will not including the actual code along with the portfolio hurt me in any way?</p>
<p>Oh my god, relax… Trust me, nobody at MIT is gonna look through your source code and examine it for clarity and efficiency. They probably won’t even notice the fact that you didn’t include the link to it. I submitted a program too, and I’ve never even heard of GitHub before starting that maker portfolio, so I obviously didn’t submit it. You should be fine too. If you really want to, go ahead and contact the admissions office and ask them to add a link to the GitHub page. But I think it’s completely pointless.</p>
<p>It’s just that I’m actually rather proud of the code, because I worked for months to write it. When I first submitted the portfolio, I was a little bummed out because the media upload would only accept videos and images, so I thought I wouldn’t be able to show them my code.</p>
<p>Turns out I just misread the instructions earlier and missed a perfect opportunity to attach the code.</p>
<p>The main reason I’m so concerned about this is because I feel like this portfolio is the strongest part of my application, and MIT’s been my dream college for years :)</p>
<p>Thanks for your input! I’ve emailed the admissions office about it, and I hope they’ll be kind enough to update my portfolio (even though it was my own carelessness that caused the problem in the first place).</p>
<p>The portfolio is the strongest part of your MIT application? That’s a little hard to believe… And sorry, but the truth is, the portfolio probably won’t account for much in the admission process. Sure, it’s a nice addition and demonstrates your passion, but I seriously doubt that the admission officers will focus on it too much. After all, they’ve got thousands of other applicants, so they’ll probably just skim the description, look at the images, and move on. Probably won’t even look at the source code. I’m just guessing, though.</p>