<p>How many people were accepted into MIT this year? What about last year?</p>
<p>A girl from my school with a 2400 SAT and a superb GPA (4.0, 96%) was rejected.</p>
<p>Is she from a very competitive school?</p>
<p>As with all schools in the area we have about 10 to 15 kids per grade who score 97% to 100% on the provincial exams (B.C.) each semester.</p>
<p>So sure, the school’s competitive but there really isn’t any grade deflation if that’s what you’re asking.</p>
<p>There aren’t that many kids who even apply to American colleges at our school.</p>
<p>Another crazy smart kid was rejected last year by every American school he applied to (MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Princeton, others). He ended up at UBC.</p>
<p>MIT accepts 15 people from Canada every year, most of whom went to international olympiads and other competitions.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure MIT is the most competitive american school for a Canadian applicant…Because unlike some top ivies who have a separate quota for Canada, we’re in the international pool competing with super-achievers from other continents. This pool has an acceptance rate of 3%…</p>
<p>yup MIT has a 3-4% International acceptance rate and it would be lower for Canadians since a good student from like Senegal would have a higher chance than a good student from Canada… since they want more diversity. All in all, I would say the Canadian acceptance rate is around 2%… you better have 2200+(preferebly 2300+) national/ international medals, 95+ average, Full IB courses… to be taken seriously.</p>
<p>My interviewer said it’s usually less than 10 Canadians. 6 were accepted for the class of 2013.</p>
<p>Anyway I will try.
So far I’ve only heard of IMO. But what about other International Olympiads? What are the qualifying exams? I’ve just found out that we do have a Canadian Biology Olympiad because our school doesn’t offer the exam at all. But we have National Biology Competition and I don’t know whether it is a qualifying exam.
Do they (both MIT and the coordinators of the Olympiads teams) only pick students from the competitive private schools?</p>
<p>I personally know a few people who got in MIT, none did it WITHOUT an international olympiad… There have also been a few Canadian IMO silver medalists rejected by MIT. That is the threshold you’re looking at.
I’m not bragging here… I got in HYP and Columbia, but was straight out rejected by MIT, and that is not at all surprising.</p>
<p>What kind of international olympiad? Math?</p>
<p>There’s a kid at a nearby school who was a USAMO finalist… that’s the kind if student who gets into MIT from Canada.</p>
<p>Ok. It’s better to know the reality.</p>
<p>Typo in last post: “Type if (of) kid”. Fail.</p>
<p>Even if you’re really a great student I’d just try for HYP and leave MIT alone.</p>
<p>^it’s worth a shot isn’t it though? I mean, I don’tplan on applying to MIT, but others who are going to be applying to top schools might as well add MIT to the list (if money is not an issue). It’s worth a shot i guess.</p>
<p>ehh…I actually don’t think it’s worth a shot if you don’t have the aforementioned credentials…For other schools, you can make up for the lack of them by amazing essays/recs. MIT doesn’t even have a long essay.</p>
<p>well, it’s probably alot harder to get in from Canada</p>
<p>No it is probably not worth the shot. You could go to Waterloo and be just as successful and save your parents a ton of money. Then again your parents probably created this monster.</p>
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My parents are never involved in my decisions. They are not the stereotypical Asian parents.</p>
<p>^ Sorry Happysunshine, I apologize if you feel I was targetting you (not my intention-- it was more a response about a lot of canadian kids fixation on US schools). So I wasn’t necessarily referring to you in particular (nor had any idea what your ethnic background was!). </p>
<p>My point wasn’t about being involved directly in decisions. As any good parents know, influence starts at birth, and our children are socialized such that they more often than not pick up our beliefs, and values…and surely these are your parents’ values or they would not be willing to fork over $200,000 for a simple undergrad degree that could be gotten for $50,000 in Canada. This isn’t like asking your folks for a brand of jeans. So if your parents are not involved, I implore you to make sure they are. Find out how much they are able and willing to spend on your education and by what criteria (since I think few canadian students can possibly do it on their own).</p>
<p>Actually, starbright, I can’t help but notice your attitude toward Canadian kids going to American schools. I completely agree with you - an Ivy education may be slightly better than a Canadian flagship one, but definitely not worth the $50k price tag.</p>
<p>I also noticed that you mentioned the “values” children pick up from their parents. I implore you to understand that these values don’t necessarily belong to our parents’ but to our society. The American upper middle class is an utterly elitist-wannabe bunch, and the most convenient way, or the American dream way, to achieve this is through sending their children to an elitist undergrad college. Canada, through its unique history, did not develop this type of elitism, and so Canadian universities remained public, accessible, and cheap. </p>
<p>That being said, some Canadian students embrace the (arguably delusional) American value more than the Canadian one, and they would value their elitist education to be worth $50k. Not necessarily so. The only reason I want an ivy degree is because I plan to go into finance right after graduation,which requires me to go to a “target school”. For those who will go into a prestige-insensitive field, such as engineering, reflect on your value system twice before committing =]</p>