I guess I mixed up the date. ^#(^
Does it come through email and/ or the application site?
You’ll most likely be notified through your e-mail that was placed on your application.
Hey everyone! I know it’s still a month until decisions, but I applied to MITES and attended MOSTEC last summer, so feel free to ask me any questions you might have!
@hershey2010 What courses were you in in MOSTEC and how were they? What about the people, how were they?
I just wanted to drop by and wish you good luck! My S applied to MITES '15 and was rejected from ALL the programs, MITES, MOSTEC, and E2C (?).
Guess what? He was adMITted to MIT this past Monday <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
Do not take the MITES decision as a predictor of MIT’s admission. The previous year, there was a kid in my S’s school who got into MITES but was rejected for admission at MIT. He’s fine at a top 20 school now, so MITES definitely helped.
Good luck and remember that there are very few spots at MITES, so they have to pick whomever they think needs the program the most. Maybe the MITES people thought my S was already a solid applicant who would be very competitive for admission to selective colleges.
Don’t put much stock on that decision 
Congratulations on your son’s acceptance to MIT!! @kittymom1102 I hope that the rest of us should be so lucky.
Congratulations on your son’s acceptance to MIT! @kittymom1102 Is your son URM?
My S is Hispanic with SAT Scores of 800/M, 770/CR, 720/W; ML2 800 and Physics 790. He took ALL his tests just once. National Merit Scholar Finalist, National AP Scholar as a Junior (earned 4+ in more than 8 AP tests) a total of 16AP classes + 2DE, valedictorian of his class of ~500, 4.0 UW GPA, captain of math team, president of mu alpha theta, his F1 team is going to the nationals, recipient of many school, county, and state awards, bilingual.
At least 3 other kids from his school applied to MIT as well, including 2 girls. My S attends a title I school were all the kids are minority, H and AA, and virtually everyone is 1st generation and low income. S is an exception in that regard as his dad has a PhD and we are not low income. To make matters worse, two of the applicants from his school were girls. I thought he wouldn’t have a chance, especially after being deferred in EA. Decision day came in, S was the only one admitted from his school! Why? In spite of their many hooks, the other kids didn’t have my S’s scores nor his strong transcript.
Make no mistake, MIT is unforgiving when it comes to academic credentials. I was stunned to learn no one else got in. Out of the 4 kids applying, S was the most unhooked, compared to his fellow classmates, especially the girls.
For programs like MITES, S was at a huge disadvantage in regard to his classmates. At least 2 of the kids applying had being a part of the MITES or WISE programs. My S was rejected from all of them. MITES and programs of the like are not admission officers. The purpose of these programs is different. Don’t panic is your S/D doesn’t get in to these summer programs. They’re usually geared towards those who need them the most. Maybe your child is a solid applicant already.
@dearestmom ^^
His high school history sounds amazing! May I ask how he balanced everything? (Scheduling and time management is by far my biggest hurdle!). Any advice would help! :):)
Interesting that you can be over-qualified for the programs. . . :-?
@nw2this I don’t think it is so much that the kid was overqualified, it’s more that he was not the type of kid who they were looking for. I think they want kids who come from more disadvantaged backgrounds and aren’t really exposed to much about college due to that, but are still very smart and talented. As she said, her kid has a father with a PhD, so he probably isn’t as disadvantaged compared to the other kids at his school and kids with parents who haven’t gone to college. Those are the ones who need the program the most.
I would have thought being URM was enough. I didn’t think you needed to meet all of the criteria.
We strongly encourage students from the following backgrounds to apply:
Underrepresented in science and engineering, defined as being African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native American
Underserved, defined as coming from low socioeconomic means, which may be indicated by qualification for free/reduced lunch
Potentially the first family member to attend college
Absence of science and engineering degrees in family
Coming from a high school with low admittance rates to top-tier colleges, especially rural or predominantly minority high schools
All applicants who meet the eligibility requirements will be considered, regardless of race or ethnicity.
You probably don’t need to meet all, but there has to be something which makes a candidate present as having the need to be enriched by the program, otherwise it could be called the URM Summer Enrichment/College Bound program.
Remembering not to conflate URM with underserved, the program seeks students with great potential and capacity, though not necessarily the background which makes such candidates clearly eligible for entry and evaluation alongside their peers.
Underserved is criteria #2
URM is criteria # 1
I wasn’t confusing them.
I just imagined that they gathered all the kids the with any of the criteria and then selected the ones with the highest stats, clearly I was wrong. Now I’m guessing the ones who meet several of the criteria are preferred.
Didn’t say confuse: conflate.
The whole point of the program, I would think, is not to take kids with merely the highest stats for this reason: Those kids get, and have, quite often. The program seeks to bolster, to strengthen where there is a deemed room for access to educational training not already under their belts, nor perhaps, within their reach at their schools/within their communities.
And it is probably no more of an exact science than that of accepting the kids into college. Like I said, there were two different outcomes in my family. The biggest difference I can see between my kids was that my now-MIT kid was a science kid from the start of his life, and child '16 breezes through what comes her way, but some of the things which have come her way have been a little different than those which came to my son.
I cannot believe the results are coming out in a couple of weeks!
Does anyone know whether they will post the results before April 15th? I was recently admitted into another program and it instructed me that I had to reply by April 15th
@diegogarciadb05 They said late April so probably not, but you can email them and maybe they’ll tell you.