<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>It’s not going to hurt your chances at MIT, but since the maker portfolios are being evaluated in part for their engineering quality, the portfolio might not help you as much as it otherwise would if you don’t include the link to the code.</p>
<p>Just send the link to MIT admissions (probably by email) and ask to have it included with your maker portfolio. Not a big deal.</p>
<p>Mollie, just wondering, who exactly evaluates the maker portfolios? The admissions officers? Or an engineering committee? And how is it “graded” - like, what’s the criteria and processes and stuff? I know you probably won’t know the answer… but just wondering what your best guess is. Thanks!</p>
<p>I only know what’s on the website, which says they’re evaluated by the “engineering advisory board”. I would assume that includes faculty and students from the engineering departments.</p>
<p>Faculty and some staff, yes. </p>
<p>OP: the videos should be sufficient based on what you’ve told me.</p>
<p>Mollie - students from the engineering departments! That actually sounds really cool - if I were a student at MIT (ahh but alas…), I think I’d like to review Maker projects. That is, if they’re <em>good</em> Maker projects - mine wasn’t really anything special, just a computer program. I bet they get tons of those.</p>
<p>Just asking out of curiosity – would creating an object-tracking camera vision program seem impressive to MIT admissions if I were self-taught in programming, or do they see stuff like that all the time from applicants?</p>
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Well, Chris says faculty and staff in the post above yours, and he actually knows. 
I was just assuming.</p>
<p>There may be a graduate student or two, not sure. Someone else in the office convened the EAB, although I do serve on it and review certain maker portfolios.</p>