<p>Hm. I'd say more of a 22.04% +/- 3.5943%. But that's just me.</p>
<p>"Frankly, I see admissions as a 50-50 so long as you're qualified- giving any other numerical chances is silly. "
ducktape:
You will get in MIT for your enthusiasm and leadership in this thread. If one shines in one place, he is sure to shine all the way along the path of life. May your dream come true !</p>
<p>Thank you more than you know, EnglishTeacher. I just hope you're right.</p>
<p>In terms of top schools, we had acceptances to Brown, UPenn, Harvard (with my help >_>), and Cornell in the past two years. Our last MIT acceptance was 5 years ago by a URM who started on the varsity football team.</p>
<p>ducktape-- thank you! nice words. i agree with you. truce.</p>
<p>EnglishTeacher88 -- I like ducktape but your endorsement of a silly claim is unfortunate! As everyone now agrees, this business about 50-50 is just nuts. Uncertainty about odds is not the same as complete ignorance about odds. Is that such a very subtle distinction?</p>
<p>depends on whether there exist closed timelike curves</p>
<p>do you believe in multiple universes? here's a plan for you guys:
find somebody you trust and force them to commit to killing you if you don't get into MIT. then you will certainly get in because only in the universe in which you get into mit, do you exist to find out about it.</p>
<p>this is known as anthropic computing.</p>
<p>your uncle is a lizard and also a logical positivist.</p>
<p>your vain insults bounce off my scaly skin.</p>
<p>I actually feel that MIT is by far the hardest to get into in the country because as well as having the low admission rate percentages it also unlike HYP doesn't admit some kids solely because there daddy donated alot of money there or their daddy sits on the board of something or the other. My school sends tons of kids to HYP some of them perfectly qualified students others not qualified at all but get in through connections. In the past 5 years we have had 2 kids get in and then choose not to go instead going to Stanford and Harvard respectfully and last year we had an amazing URM student who may have been the best ever at our school in terms of Math/Sci but he was rejected at MIT got into Caltech & Stanford and eventually ended up at Stanford.</p>
<p>@Ben and River- We are not seriously getting into an argument over metaphysics.</p>
<p>there exists some universe in which we are</p>
<p>Stop now before I shut this down with my end-all, "Worrying about metaphysics is absurd" argument.</p>
<p>I have to use it on a friend all the time when he gets too far ahead of himself.</p>
<p>Ah, but you can't stop this conversation in every universe in which it exists. Is this conversation even happening? Do we even exist?</p>
<p>River's uncle thinks everything is 50-50 unless the goat intervenes.</p>
<p>
[quote]
do you believe in multiple universes? here's a plan for you guys:
find somebody you trust and force them to commit to killing you if you don't get into MIT. then you will certainly get in because only in the universe in which you get into mit, do you exist to find out about it.</p>
<p>this is known as anthropic computing.
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For the record, I am also really excited about this plan.</p>
<p>Ben Golub is really smart, and also good looking.</p>
<p>Wrong</a> thread.</p>
<p>i actually intended it for this</a> thread</p>
<p>lol one way that MIT is more selective is that they kinda accept people SOOO RANDOMLY. lol haha yeah i kno the "just for the hell of it" ppl...some guy in my school last year with a 1630 SAT and 2.6 GPA applied to HYP...and obviously got rejected. how funny would it be if they were accepted..</p>
<p>=P</p>
<p>"wow, this guy has some nerve applying to our school with those stats. we want someone with that kind of nerve. accept!"</p>