<p>So here we are finally! I haven’t received the email however</p>
<p>guys you make me nervous, stop posting that rejection messages!</p>
<p>rejected… Anyone here who got admission???</p>
<p>Yeah! I am admitted!</p>
<p>Hey, no worries guys and gals. You should be proud that you were the few ones with the sense of applying in the best institute in the world. </p>
<p>Plus, this decision will be better for all of us, in every possible sense. :)</p>
<p>‘Raise yourself to the level which emulates MIT’ is the lesson we should take with this decision. You are better but someone in some facet is ahead of you.</p>
<p>GOD bless you all. Had a wonderful time with people of same thoughts. :)</p>
<p>@Dilmurat</p>
<p>Congratz man.!!! My Heartiest admiration for you. :)</p>
<p>Congrats, dilmurat!</p>
<p>@ Dilmurat</p>
<p>Please share your E-mail with us.</p>
<p>Thank you guys!</p>
<p>@ Dimurat</p>
<p>Please share the acceptance e-mail. I am so eager to see what they say in it. 0.o</p>
<p>hi dilmurat!!!</p>
<p>to everyone else: thank you for taking this so well. I realize how hard this can be. Please know that our transfer admissions are absolutely insanely competitive, moreso even than undergrad. You are all great students who will do well wherever you end up.</p>
<p>^Hi MITChris, have all results been out yet? I haven’t received the email. Can I call? Thank you!</p>
<p>Congrats :)</p>
<p>Yep. Denied. But I expected it so I’m not upset at all (: Congrats to dilmurat and anymore else who receives the good news!!</p>
<p>Admitted!!!</p>
<p>@barrythebrassman
congratz bro!</p>
<p>May as well make this formal.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800M/770V out of 1600. 800 SAT II Writing
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Chemistry / 800 Mathematics Level 2 / 770 Spanish
[<em>] HS Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.9, I think?
[</em>] HS Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 97th percentile (80 students in graduating class, was in top 2-3 but school doesn’t rank)
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Chem: 5 / BC Calc: 5 / Bio: 5 / Physics E&M: 5,5 / Stat: 5 / couple humanities where I scored 3 or 4.
[</em>] Previous college: Caltech
[<em>] College GPA: 2.3 (from >3 years ago; I took courses at another school over the past two terms with stellar grades)
[</em>] Requested Department at MIT: Course VI
[/ul]</p>
<p>Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] Why attend MIT: discussed cultural fit (war of hacks between caltech/mit, my ditch day stack/mystery hunt), academic fit for EECS [6][/li][li] Why transfer from Caltech: no longer living there since I’ve settled in Boston; stifling culturally/socioeconomically [5][/li][li] Opinion I had to defend: gender transition in high school which my parents/society in general disapproved of; discrimination/harassment; how it caused me to advocate for less privileged groups (e.g. persons with disabilities, LGBT people, URM’s in CS) [10][/li][li] Hobbies: my dog, cooking local vegan meals, IPv6, administering Caltech’s undergraduate computer science cluster, implementing a CPU on an FPGA, misc. [8][/li][li] Summer activities: Explained my jobs in computer science during college, biology research. [6][/li][li] What have you done since leaving school: explained my work at Google over the past three years - Bigtable, Perforce, Google Books.[/li][</em>] Extended leave: explained that I am on sabbatical due to financial/personal circumstances
[<em>] Other: explained poor academic performance in sophomore year due to medical/financial pressure.
[/ul]
[li] Didn’t see any of my recs, but I have a general idea based on talking to them.[/li][</em>] Professor Recommendation #1: From professor of my recent computation systems class. I went the extra mile in his class and created the best CPU design. Solid, but he doesn’t know me personally.
[<em>] Professor Recommendation #2: From CS professor at Caltech who saw the outreach I did for women/URM’s in computer science and my leadership of UGCS. Glowing.
[</em>] Professor Recommendation #3: From bio professor at Caltech and the postdoc who supervised my research. Glowing.
[li] Additional Rec: my supervisor at work (who is a former MIT lecturer). Glowing.[/li][/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: 2/15/2011
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[<em>] HS Type: Private
[</em>] College Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: irrelevant, didn’t apply for finaid
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m LGBT, and rather specifically transgender. I also have gobs of work experience in CS.
[/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Glowing recommendations, solid research work in biology, practical work experience. Tenacity to survive the stuff I’ve been through.
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA. GPA. GPA. (mitigated by medical reasons, but still majorly hurt me)
[<em>] Why you think you were rejected: I’m a non-traditional student and very much an acquired taste. My GPA likely cast doubt on whether I could hold up a full courseload at MIT even though my medical/financial issues have been since resolved.
[</em>] What would you have done differently?: I wouldn’t have done anything differently. I am who I am, and if I’m not a fit with MIT, then I’m happy to find somewhere else that is a fit or just make my own path. That being said, I probably should have also mentioned that since I went on sabbatical, Caltech’s CS program has lost key faculty members that were teaching the systems classes I was most interested in; those classes (e.g. compilers, OS) are no longer taught.
[/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc: Congrats to the folks that got in, I’m sure you’ll do very well. In conclusion, [YouTube</a> - Walk On The Moon](<a href=“Walk On The Moon - YouTube”>Walk On The Moon - YouTube)</p>
<p>"So I don’t care, my foolish fear
Won’t get the best of me now</p>
<p>I’m alive, I’ve got one shot
And I’m taking it to you.
I’m alive, I’ve come to realize
Not a moment too soon"</p>
<p>Dear</p>
<p>Congratulations! I am thrilled to tell you that you have been admitted to
MIT for the Fall 2011 term. You are a remarkable student and I sincerely
hope you will decide to join us in September.</p>
<p>An official letter will be mailed to you later this week, but we wanted to
contact you now to give you the good news. Until you receive your admissions
package, please feel free to visit these websites:</p>
<p>Financial Aid:
[MIT</a> - Student Financial Services](<a href=“MIT Student Financial Services”>MIT Student Financial Services)</p>
<p>Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming:
(for information on housing, credit evaluation, and orientation)
[The</a> First Year at MIT: For Transfer Students](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/transfer/]The”>http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/transfer/)</p>
<p>If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me by phone
or email.</p>
<p>Best,
Emily</p>
<hr>
<p>Emily Sheldon
MIT Graduate, Special and Transfer Admissions</p>
<p>YEAH I GOT IT as WELL!!!</p>
<p>Dear
Congratulations! I am thrilled to tell you that you have been admitted to
MIT for the Fall 2011 term. You are a remarkable student and I sincerely
hope you will decide to join us in September.</p>
<p>Did all of you receive an email like this?</p>
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<p>I’m not sure if this email is legit. Maybe a real bad prank from someone?</p>