<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1550, 2110, 2360
[</em>] SAT IIs: Bio M: 700, 710, 800 Chem: 780 Math IC: 790 Math IIC: 800 Writing: 650
[<em>] GPA: 4.58 weighted
[</em>] Rank: no rank at our school
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: homophobia, synesthesia
[<em>] Teacher Recs: okay?
[</em>] Counselor Rec: very very good
[<em>] Hook (if any): Juilliard, lotsa amateur research, small publication
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New Jersey
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: Cross Country, Work, Dermatologist shadowing, research, gov school, math league, science league, leadership string ensemble positions
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected: Juilliard? essays?
[</em>] Other thoughts: Officially shocked. Sent in my application two or three days before deadline, DECIDED to apply a week before. Asked all my teachers last minute and counselors, didn't get to have an interview, reused essays... BUT SO HAPPEH because MIT became my first first first choice around late January.. and I thought I would never make it in because it was so rushed. And you CAN make it in to college with B's and with a horrible SAT retake record.[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2180 (M 800 V 700 W 680)
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II 800, US 770, Bio 760
[<em>] ACT: 35 (M 35 R 36 S 35 E 32)
[</em>] GPA: 3.98, 4.56
[<em>] Rank: None
[</em>] Other stats: Taken 16 APs
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Extremely Generic
[</em>] Hook (if any): Identical Twin
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: OH
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: President and Founder Science Olympiad, President JSA, Student Representative, and Academic Team (other less important ones I did not list)
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: My interview was great and I had a unique essay (unfortunately it was not used on the common app)
[*] Other thoughts: This was a refreshing suprise.</p>
<p>lol. I have an identical twin too, but she didn't apply. She is going to Stanford and I'm probably going to MIT or Harvard. We will be in different coasts for the first time ever in our lives. Did your twin get in?</p>
<p>In an effort to dispel nervous energy, the (entirely statistically useless) exit poll stats so far (out of 74 total posts with the required info included):</p>
<p>Applicants were 72% male and 28% female, which looks roughly right considering past years. However, just based on this thread, there is a 54% acceptance rate, 41% rejection rate, and 5% waitlisted rate. Hm, oh well. :} 45% of males were accepted, vs. 76% females (in actual stats, it looks like the acceptance rates are usually more along the lines of 11% / 25%).</p>
<p>So this tells us pretty much nothing. Unless MIT lied about their 13% acceptance rate. XD</p>
<p>they received about 11000 applications and around 1500 got accepted. so ~13%. Girls and minorities have a higher acceptance rate because MIT embraces diversity.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: M770 CR640 WR610
[</em>] SAT IIs: M Ic 750 (I actually saw nobody else take Ic), phys 800 french 800</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: (can't really judge)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: very good, very good, excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: very good
[</em>] Hook (if any): rec letter from MIT professor and research scientist</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Live in Mexico
[</em>] School Type: private, french lycee
[<em>] Ethnicity: born in Russia
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: MIT rec letter, 2 summers of work/research experience at MIT, research article
[</em>] Other thoughts: Congratulations to everybody!!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2150 (800 M, 680 V, 670 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 Spanish w/ listening, 750 Math 2c, 710 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 3.4 (Really low I know but my school is uber competitive)
[</em>] Rank: around 30 out of 115 (not even in top 20%)
[<em>] Other stats: ACT: 34, NHS, Mu alpha theta, Spanish honors society, AP Scholar with distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Really passionate about medicine and history of it in my family, good short one on the rubick's cube too.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One amazing from an MIT alum. (Probly a really helpful hook, he's a genius and he loves me), other probly really good from a really nice and smart english teacher.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Average
[<em>] Hook (if any): Applied as water polo recruit, but I'm not that good I wasn't one of top 10 recruits.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: FL
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: Community service at church, water polo, swimming, research internship, camps, some others but im way too excited to think of them or type them all out
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: I was deferred early but DAMN!!!! IM SO HAPPY!!!! ITS A DREAM COME TRUE! I really wasn't expecting this...7 people applied in my school and I'm the only one who got in! I know people who read this probably don't think i deserve this because of my GPA but you have to understand my school doesn't weight and it's arguably the best in florida, which means true competitiveness. In addition I had a great rec from an MIT alum, a great rec from the head of school who has taken a particular interest in me, and a bit of water polo help in the recruiting department..I guess thats my hook.
[</em>] Other thoughts: I am really sorry looking at these stats of so many people who were rejected, you all are truly amazing. Just because you are not going to MIT doesn't mean you can't get what you want done! You clearly are brilliant in class and on standardized tests! No matter where you spend your next four years you will continue to excel and have opportunities to better our society and world.</p>
<p>Okay here is the more detailed post for next years seniors (the last one i kinda just did spur of the moment and then ran to my friends)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 770 m 710 v 660 w
[<em>] SAT IIs: 730 chem, 770 iic , 690 ush
[</em>] ACT: none
[<em>] APs: 5 - apush, 5 macro/micro econ, 5 CALC AB, 4 eng lang, 3 chem(self)
[</em>] IBs: none
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.8ishUW 4.3 ish W
[</em>] Rank: 3-4
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP english lit, ap gov't, physics h, T.A, drawing painting 1, german 4.
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Varsity swim team, robotics, rocketry club, guitar club (probably a few more)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Robotics Teacher, Handyman, Freelance graphics designer
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses):
Main essay was about a bottle rocketry class i started since i was bored over the summer, and how it led to me entering a national rocketry competition
another essay was about the conversation me and my interviewer had about his experience in UROP
last essay was about guitar and all the aspects I love about it.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One was very indepth (knew teacher for 4 years), other was also very good more of the "glowing praise " type.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: pretty good, talked about how i am a bit disinterested by my classes and not challenged (but very vaguely) mostly about leadership skills and what not.
[<em>] Interview (feel and general location): great, it went on for like 2 hours, we started talking about robots and circuits and all that good stuff
[</em>] Hook (if any): i'm poor i guess?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): suburban, semi-competitive (5-6 to berkeley, 5-6 UCLA out of class of 230)
[<em>] Ethnicity: South asian
[</em>] Income Bracket: 60-70k
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Hooks: none really
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: lots of stuff that i've invented and made/ hands on building experience, lots of computer experience 3d graphics, weakness: 2 Bs in science, low SAT scores
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I showed passion and had passion for stuff, none of it was fake stuff it was all stuff i loved doing (making 3d models, building rockets and robots)
[/ul] Other Factors: General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Congrats to fellow acceptees, and to the people that didn't get in: it really is a very random process, i'm sure if you are strong enough to be applying you will get somewhere in life.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:V560M800W710 V660M790W720
[</em>] SAT IIs: Physics 790 Math LVL 2 800 Chemistry 800
[<em>] GPA:not so sure, about 3.8 to 3.9
[</em>] Rank: 45 or something, not in the front
[<em>] Other stats:Science Olympiad National Second Place
Bunch of other SciOly awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:Pretty good I guess
[<em>] Teacher Recs:EXTREMELY GOOOOOOOD
[</em>] Counselor Rec:not so sure, not bad, she likes me
[<em>] Hook (if any):I've only been here for 2 years or so
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:Media, PA
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:Asian/Chinese
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness:strong in sciences, weak in social studies, and language arts(English)
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: The recs were awesome, they all mentioned my plight, which is the fact that the first year I was here, I wasn't allowed to take lvl1 classes, which pulled down my GPA and rank.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
I got into Caltech, so it's all good.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT:2320(m800v740w780)
SAT IIs:math2c-800, japanese-770, physics-800, chemistry-800, us history-780
GPA:ugpa-3.9 wgpa-4.5
Rank:no rank
Other stats:AIME-12
Subjective:
Essays: good.
Teacher Recs: great.
Counselor Rec: great.
Hook (if any): senior captain in varsity soccer, aime-12
Location/Person:
State or Country: MD
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Korean
Gender: Male
major strength/weakness: AIME
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I don't know.
Other Factors:</p>
<p>I'm waiting for Harvard and Princeton though it seems I'll get rejected. I'll go to Rice.</p>
<p>STATS
Fee Waiver Used?: Nope
SAT I (by section): 800 Math; 730 Verbal; 600 Writing
SAT IIs: 800 Math II; 760 Physics; 670 French
ACT: No idea what this is
AS-Levels: Bio - A; Chem - A; Physics - A; Math - A; French - A; Further Math - A
GCSEs: 10 A*s and 1 A
GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: NO IDEA
Rank: 1
Senior Yr Courseload: ?
Number of Apps from Your School: Me and me alone, doubt that there is that many is the whole UK.</p>
<p>SUBJECTIVE
ECs listed on app: Community Service, Organizin Clubs, D of E, etc.
Job/Work Experience: Headstart and a few other places.
Essays (subject and responses): No idea, I honestly thought it was naff.
Teacher Recs: Same as UCAS
Counselor Rec: Same as UCAS
Interview (feel and general location): Didn't have one
Hook (if any):?</p>
<p>LOCATION / PERSON
State or Country: Newcastle, England
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private
Ethnicity: White
Income Bracket: Lower Middle Class / Upper Working Class
Gender: Male
Hooks: ?
Strengths/Weaknesses: I talk alot when nervous, i guess.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Honestly keep thinking it's a massive fluke. But it will be so cool to spend the next 4 years in the USA (gets me out of cold and wet England, so I'm not complaining).
But now I gotta go tell Cambridge I've got a better offer, lol.</p>
<p>Hey Brian_MC, while browsing an old nature journal I read the abstract of some guys who built basically the same device, except they used a pyroelectric crystal to generate the potential difference. I guess the advantages are its cheaper (lithium tantalate is used in everything) and you dont have that nasty problem of having to deal with thousands of volts of electricity. After I read the abstract I thought it would be a great thing for my high school to do, but alas Im a lazy good for nothing senior with no initiative. Oh well, there is always college. But I thought you might be interested (though you have probably already heard about it). Sorry about MIT, if you didn't get in, thats definitely saying something about the school. Cheer up, cause where there's a will there's a way</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2200
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II/Physics/USH 800/750/720
[<em>] GPA: 3.8 unweighted
[</em>] Rank: don't know, probably top 10%
[<em>] Other stats: 4 AP 5s, 3 AP 4s
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: about one of my math competitions and the nature of problem-solving - not amazing, I thought, but I guess MIT disagreed
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One pretty awesome (math), one decent (econ)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: don't know, probably not glowing (large school, counselor barely knows me)
[<em>] Hook (if any): uhh...what?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NJ
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: NHS, various math/science clubs in my HS, student council, speech & debate - standard stuff
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: Oh man, I have no idea...extreme luck? That's all I can think!
[</em>] Other thoughts: Not a lot right now...mainly just incredulous silence...congrats to all who got in!!!!!!!!
[/ul]</p>