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Obsessive? MIT has done great injustice that can never be forgiven.</p>
<p>hehe i was in that video lol</p>
<p>Hey has anyone here read the book "A Hope In The Unseen"?</p>
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What does that have to do with MITES???</p>
<p>^^^It actually has a lot to do with the program. It talks about a kid who went to the program, and was told by the academic advisor that his chances of getting into MIT were not good and to consider applying somewhere else. Well, the kid challenged this as a racist remark.. a lot of controversy came out of this case. I'm surprised you hadn't heard about it. I believe this was the summer of 93. I read the book in 8th grade so i don't remember all of the details.</p>
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Gotcha...thank you google: Amazon.com:</a> A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League: Ron Suskind: Books</p>
<p>ooo...hey, thanks friedrice, for the links. they were useful and informative. Mites sounds interesting, and when do we hear back from them?</p>
<p>hey you guys, did you read the cc post about Dr. Avard being rejected from yale and the Yale article about ppl on CC?? It seems like college admissions ppl are watching us and what we're saying....I guess this could apply to the MIT MITES ppl.....though, if you use your username as part of the email address you submited to the MITES.</p>
<p>Eh, I wouldn't be so paranoid about colleges and programs like MITES tracking my Internet activity, I'm sure they have better things to do. Also, I read on the MIT Admissions Blogs a while back that MIT doesn't even do that type of stuff.</p>
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<p>But if you're still playing the paranoid "omg-colleges-are-watching-me!" game, then you might also want to hide your location too, since that's often a huge giveaway. But I've got nothing to hide...</p>
<p>lol if college reps know what I've been posting in CC or Facebook, I'll get rejected to every school!</p>
<p>lol. thanks guys. No, I'm not being paranoid. I was just kind of surprised that Yale would bother to write an article about Dr. Avarah and quote ppl on cc. So that made me to think other collges might be doing the same thing.</p>
<p>Sooooooo if you guys get into MITES, what schools are you gonna apply to in the fall?</p>
<p>HYPSMC (oh my)
Columbia
Cornell or Brown
UPenn
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Universiyt of Illinois-Urbana</p>
<p>eh, most likely some safeties and more matches. any suggestions?</p>
<p>lol we almost have the same list:</p>
<p>HYPSM (MIT EA)
UPenn (Wharton/LSM)
Cornell
Brown (maybe)
Northwestern</p>
<p>Safety: University of Washington</p>
<p>Same thing here..HYPSM, UPenn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago.....</p>
<p>Saftey: RIT (great institute w/ a lot of deaf people there), Rugters</p>
<p>Let's prepare for harvs 6.4% admission rate next year :p</p>
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but remember that attending MITES is such a big hook so chances are actually decent regardless of stats</p>
<p>MIT
CMU
WPI
Georgia Tech
University of Florida
Tufts
BU</p>
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<p>i don't know about that. it seems harvard wouldn't care much about MITES, only MIT would :p</p>
<p>If you look at the alumni profiles, most of the attendees went to top universities (MIT, Harvard, Stanford) despite having less than average stats.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mit-mites.org/alumni/profiles.pl%5B/url%5D">http://www.mit-mites.org/alumni/profiles.pl</a></p>