Hi guys! Just thought I’d update you. I applied as a computer science major to the school of engineering wherever it applied. Here’s my chance thread from awhile ago:
MIT - accepted
UC Berkeley - accepted
Cornell - accepted & Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar
UPenn - waitlisted
Carnegie Mellon - waitlisted
Stanford - rejected
University of Michigan - rejected (idk lol)
Anyways. I think I’m going to take my name off of waitlists because I am fortunate enough with my choices!
Thank you all for your support throughout this nerve-wrecking college application process!
MIT is a gem. Reason? All freshmen professors meet during the first semester to discuss the class. Example: My brother-in-law’s student visited him at Christmas break to say, ‘my math professor said he always gives a test the first or second class to see where the mid point of the class is and starts to teach from there. He said no one in his 20 years of teaching had ever received a 100% because they aren’t supposed to know all the material, until me’. Another professor spoke up to say he had near 100% on all tests, quizzes and homework to date. They pulled him out of the regular classes and he was taught one on one by the professors instead starting after Christmas break. He stayed at MIT for his PhD, started his own company, sold it and is now a professor at Harvard.
Another friend told me her son called her the first week of school sophomore year at MIT to say his professor wanted to talk to him. Apparently he scored in #2 in the class in Mathematics freshman year so they wanted him to work under a professor in his AI lab. He stayed for a Master’s degree, helped them develop a new product and hoping to cash in soon!
They know you, they care about you meeting your full potential. Amazing place.
Tough road for vast majority of students but they feel supported. Everyone was top of their class and like Berkeley, Cal Tech, etc. you need to understand that among the best of the best, you may be average but you will be cared for at MIT.
Wow, you took a risk, but it worked. Congrats to you. I won’t rag on you about no matches or safeties, because I am delighted that you didn’t apply to 20 schools. Good job being sensible and not succumbing to panic.
@Lindagaf I actually did have safeties haha. I just didn’t include them in this post, because these were the schools I got chanced for on my original thread. I also got into Ohio State University, UIUC, and UCLA (and yeah I know that OSU was my only real safety haha). I got into some good schools early, so I didn’t feel the need to apply to more safeties.
