<p>(Disclaimer: Shortened responses for privacy. In reality I had more extracurriculars, activities, etc.)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1600/2350
[</em>]SAT II: 800/800
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW
[<em>]Rank: 1
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):5 APs: 5; taking 5 more.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: great (or so says my counselor)
[</em>]Recs: great
[<em>]Supplementary Material: none
[</em>]Summer Activities: volunteer stuff, summer programs, etc.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: East Coast
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: F[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: committed president of several clubs for 4 years, community leadership positions, etc.
[</em>]Awards: school awards, AMC regional award, some regional math awards
[<em>]Why you think you were rejected: applied for financial aid, many applicants just like me, not a US citizen, &c &c
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Hm, I had thought I had put how much I (genuinely) loved MIT in my application, and how much I would fit at MIT (based on the guidelines specified on the site). I guess it wasn’t enough, it didn’t go through, or something was wrong. Now I’m recovering from the shock of the rejection from my absolute top choice–and life moves on. I haven’t been accepted at any of my 14 colleges yet except for one (a backup) that I can’t see myself going to. We’ll see what fortunes the end of March brings.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1560/2330
[</em>]SAT II: Math II 770, Physics 790, US History 790
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: not sure
[<em>]Rank: 4/~250
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): US History, Physics B, Lit and Comp, World History - 5; Comp Sci A - 4[/ul] Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty good, I thought!
[</em>]Recs: Perhaps not as good!
[<em>]Supplementary Material: n/a
[</em>]Summer Activities: Travel, reading, volunteering
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none[/ul] Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: TX
[<em>]High School Type: Private
[</em>]Ethnicity: Indian
[<em>]Gender: M[/ul] Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Piano, Latin Club head
[<em>]Awards: NMSF, etc.; various Latin awards
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: No real math/science EC’s
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: First choice, but I did a close approximation of my best![/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 - 800 (Math), 800 (writing), 780 (CR)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 (MathII), 790 (Chem), 780 (Physics)
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.5
[<em>]Rank: school doesn’t rank, but top 5%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):4 in US History, 5s in US Gov, BC Calc, Chem, currently taking English Lit, Physics, Environmental Science [/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I think they were pretty good - the creativity one was about building a bike-powered generator - wrote about my passion for the environment and my interest in environmental science and conservation
[</em>]Recs: good - one from math teacher I’ve had for 3 years, one from English teacher who loved me, my counselor also really liked me
[<em>]Supplementary Material: none
[</em>]Summer Activities: volunteering, mentorship in Boston with a judge
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): my brother is a senior there, my dad went there, I’ve been in contact with the tennis coach [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Richmond, VA
[<em>]High School Type: magnet public school - rated one of the top 16 public schools in US by Newsweek
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: female [/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Environment club (pres), Science Nat Honor Society (pres), Outdoors Club (vice-pres), Key Club, Mu Alpha Theta, English Nat Honor Society, Nat Honor Society, Global Citizens Corps, Model Judiciary
[<em>]Awards: Caltech Junior Book Award, Lexus Leadership award, Nat Merit Finalist, We The People state champs, some other stuff
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: white female interested in math and science, sibling legacy, extracurricular involvement, athlete
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] congrats to all accepted!!! hope to see you at CPW! to all others, good luck with your other college decisions.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: CR 610 M 770 W 680 (2060)
[</em>]SAT II: Math2 780, Physics 800
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.88
[<em>]Rank:1/50
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I think they were ok
[</em>]Recs: Excellent
[<em>]Supplementary Material:
[</em>]Summer Activities: Camp for olympiad winners
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: AZERBAIJAN
[<em>]High School Type: Public, Considered the best in my country
[</em>]Ethnicity: Azeri, Caucasian
[<em>]Gender:[/ul]** Male **[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: a lot of things, including presidency of class and Small Academy organisation
[<em>]Awards: National Physics olympiad, regional math olympiad, Competitions.
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 CR, 800 M, 740 W, 9 essay (2340 total)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 790 Chem, 790 Bio
[<em>]ACT: 35 cumulative, 8 essay, all the section scores were around 35, best was 36 science
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 unweighted (not anymore hahaaa), 4.8 weighted
[<em>]Rank: 16/450ish? (I think the rank on the midyear report was a little higher)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP’s, Chemistry (5) Calc BC (5) Latin Lit (4). I only took three, but this is somewhat normal at my school, and I’m taking 5 this year.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I’m not sure… I’m not usually the best essay writer (as you can tell from my test scores haha), but I liked these. I was worried that I might’ve sounded too nerdy on my essays (Caltech was the only school where I was honest about my geekiness ahaha), since I though maybe Caltech didn’t want any more nerds, but I guess it all turned out alright.
[</em>]Recs: Didn’t see them, I’m guessing they were good but nothing special.
Counselor Rec: Same; good but nothing special. My counselor really liked me, she just didn’t know me very well.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: one recommendation letter from a summer research mentor. I think it should’ve been pretty good. At least proof that I’m adequate in a lab.
[</em>]Summer Activities: Organized a casserole bake-off for Meals on Wheels, organized a series of food sales for the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake, NSLC (residential leadership conference), genetics research on polyploidy in angiosperms using Mimulus as a model, volunteer camp counselor at NC Botanical Garden, volunteer with the radiation oncology department at Duke
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nope.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: North Carolina
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Debate (class captain), Science Club <a href=“president”>all the science competitions the school participates in, grouped in one club</a>, Science Olympiad (varsity captain), Science Days service club (founder+president), SkillsUSA (vice president), Octagon service club (President, Vice for the past 2 years), National Honor Society, Peer Tutoring. 250+ service hours, if that counts for anything… it actually is probably a whole lot been more than that; I stopped filing the service learning forms after a while.
[<em>]Awards: Uhm, a fair number, for science competitions, debate, Latin. Nothing too prestigious though, they were on the state/regional level, with the exception of a few national circuit debate awards.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Yuck. I really wanted MIT over Caltech, but I’m not too crushed b/c the Caltech buzz hasn’t worn off yet hahaaa. And I wasn’t really expecting to get in anyway. Plus it seems that I am in good company as a reject. Those of you who got in, Y’ALL BETTER BE FREAKING AMAZING. Just kidding; congrats! :)[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2090
[</em>]SAT II: Math I 800, Math II 780, Chem 760
[<em>]ACT: none
[</em>]GPA: 8.4/10.0
[<em>]Rank: top 10%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: good, I think
[</em>]Recs: highly appreciated by my teachers
[<em>]Supplementary Material: none
[</em>]Summer Activities: part-time job
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Vietnam
[<em>]High School Type: Nationally accredited
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Community services, youth-oriented (in short)
[<em>]Awards: none
[</em>]Why you think you were rejected: I’m just not good enough
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2320 (720CR, 800M, 800W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Mathematics Level II, 720 Chemistry, 720 Japanese
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.99/4.0
[<em>]Rank: 1/392
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calculus BC 5, AP Statistics 5, AP Chemistry 5, AP US History 4[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I tried my best; an autobiography and a statement of purpose.
[</em>]Recs: Sent in 5, two additional ones from a mathematics mentor and a mathematics professor. All were stellar.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Term Paper for Classical Geometry course on the Poincare Half-Plane of Hyperbolic Geometry, many updates, etc.
[</em>]Summer Activities: Study abroad in Japan, 600 volunteer hours, many college mathematics courses (from DiffEq to Convex Analysis), many more to follow!
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): First-generation; HS junior graduating early (after 3 semesters worth of college courses!)[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: MA
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian, Chinese
[<em>]Gender: XY[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Academic Decathlon, Cultural Awareness Club, Math Team, National Art Honor Society, Rocketry Team, Science Bowl Team, Tennis Team (leadership positions in all); studies and undergraduate courses in mathematics, studies in foreign languages (Chinese, Japanese, French), Volunteer teaching at Chinese school, etc.
[<em>]Awards: National History Day Competition State 1st Place, Excellence in French, MA Federation Art Contest 1st Place, National Kikkoman Scholarship, QB College Match Finalist, etc.
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Some things just cannot be explained!
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Everybody, just do your best. Ganbarou ne![/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2160 (700 CR 770 Math 700W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 math II, 770 physics, 760 math I
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 96/100 senior year
[<em>]Rank: top 10%, actually top 5/160
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AB Calculus 5, AP Stats 5, mediocre AMC scores, taking AP Microeconomics, macroeconomics, physics c mechanics, physics b, english lit, chemistry, calculus BC[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:thought they were good…
[</em>]Recs: My school doesnt let me read them but they both liked me
[<em>]Supplementary Material: sent in one extra reference that was apparently amazing from a rugby coach
[</em>]Summer Activities: full time summer camp job last summer, rugby, travel
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul]Personal[ul] I would have been recruited if ice hockey was still a varsity sport…
[</em>]Location: toronto (I am an american citizen though)
[<em>]High School Type: private
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: male[/ul]** Other**[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: rugby and hockey through high school at high levels, created service placement, awarded twice by school for service commitment, deck captain in residence, guitar player
[<em>]Awards: national merit commended, some small math contest awards, various sport-related awards (provincial finalist in hockey and rugby)
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: not enough academic awards
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] All I can say is that in Canada the only criteria for university admission is your top six grade twelve marks, so I was never focused on doing the other things that kids in America do to get into universities. I did what I enjoyed, and now I am excelling in academics more then ever. My best advice for my fellow rejectees is to use this as motivation; I am going to make sure MIT is sorry they rejected me. I am going to print off that rejection letter and pin it over my desk right now.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1990 (610 CR, 700 M, 680 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 790 Math II, 720 Bio M
[<em>]ACT: 35 (34 E, 35 M, 36 R, 35 S)
[</em>]GPA: 3.71 UW
[<em>]Rank: (School does not rank) Top 1%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):[/ul] AP: Calc BC, Stats, US History [3], Human Geography [4], Spanish Language [5]. A-Level: Economics [D]. AMC12: 79.5 Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: My love for reading History. Course 20. Starting a tutoring ring over the summer. Can’t remember the other two.
[</em>]Recs: One Math, One Economics.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Nothing.
[</em>]Summer Activities: Studying French. Studying Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM (seems that doesn’t matter much anymore)[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Miami, FL
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Hispanic (see sore whites and Asians? Not all URMs on CC get in -_-)
[<em>]Gender: XY [/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: NHS, French Honor Society, Math Club, other stuff …
[<em>]Awards: Not a lot of them.
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Unimpressive applicant. I think my essays were too bland. Nothing really stood out.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Work hard on those essays.[/ul]</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty good, not the best I’ve written.<br>
[</em>]Recs: Excellent. I know that both of them were extremely strong.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: submitted a music supplement. My teacher’s a juliard grad, and she thought that I could have gotten in Juliard with that CD.
[</em>]Summer Activities: Governor’s School for Global Entrepreneurship, travel, PFEW, work for various companies.
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none. Another ORM</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: suburb of PA
[</em>]High School Type: public, large
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender:Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: FBLA (National Phil. Councilperson, Region Pres, School Pres), Captain Mathletes, Pres Scholars Bowl, Chief Editor Culture Shock, VP Science Honor Society, Tres. Math Honor Society, Liaison Spanish Honor Society, Captain JV Tennis team, “manager” volunteer services at Holy Redeemer Hospital, own tennis stringing business, coach middle school Mathcounts team, secretary on Board of Directors on a non-profit some friends and I started up. I’m probably forgetting some stuff.
[</em>]Awards: various. National AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, Del Val highest award for chemistry, various FBLA awards
[<em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I’m an Asian male without any national science awards. I also applied as an econ/business management (or something like that) major.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Congrats to all of you that got in! I feel really bad for those that just got rejected at both MIT and Caltech… At least I’m in two great schools.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2200 M: 750, CR: 740, WR: 710 (Took only once as a Junior)
[</em>] SAT Subject Tests: Physics: 790, BioM 790, Math 2 790, Chem 780, Math I 710
[<em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>]AP/IB classes: GCSEs 9 A</em>s, 5 A Levels (Phy, Bio, Chem, Maths, Further Maths); 1 A* so far. Four more (hopefully) in July.
[/ul] Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Pretty Good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Probably Good. Didn’t Read Them
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably Good. Didn’t Read Them
[</em>] State or Country: American educated in London
[<em>] School Type: Boy’s (very) British Boarding School
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul] Other Factors, hook?: Went overseas in 8th grade to start school for five years. No friends or relatives and had a great experience. Top flight academics, activities and experiences. Lots of friends and good times. I am very fortunate. General Comments: Happy to be still in the running (kind of)! Awaiting word from HYPS & UCB too.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300. 800 Math 730 CR 770 Writing
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Bio-M
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.97/4.00
[<em>]Rank: 3/360something
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):[/ul]Subjective[ul] AP English Language 4 AP World History 4 AP Biology 5 AP European History 5. Made AIME but didn’t do that well.
[<em>]Essays: Superb
[</em>]Recs: Science: sub-par to average Social science: Average to good
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Recommendation from my science fair mentor which was pretty good and one from my quizbowl coach which was really, really good. My college transcript from UWF.
[</em>]Summer Activities: Took classes at UWF
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Pensacola, Florida
[<em>]High School Type: Moderately large public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male [/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Quizbowl (co-president), Mu Alpha Theta, Interact Club, NHS, Latin Club.
[<em>]Awards: Intel ISEF finalist, captain of team Florida (1st sophomore), member of team Florida (2nd sophomore), 2nd place at state Latin Forum in Greek literature, 2nd place at state Latin Forum in Latin Literature, Grand Award winner at regional science fair, and a plethora of small math competition awards
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Firstly, I’m a junior so it was harder on me I think. Also, I’m Asian; and I did a lot of math stuff that wasn’t too outstanding. Additionally, my recommendations from my teachers weren’t superb. I didn’t have many APs though I’m taking 5 this year. I had two B’s last semester when I turned in my midyear report (the only two I’ve gotten in high school) so that might have scared them off…
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Overall, this is a huge disappointment. I thought my application this year was strong. I thought I could get in with the courses I took at the local university (mainly math: Analytic functions, coding theory, discrete math, biostatistics, and special topics in statistic. Also, macroeconomics and university physics) and my awards (mainly being on team Florida since I’m only the second sophomore to make it onto the 6 person team in over 20-something years of its existence). But, I guess… I dunno… I’m just not good enough. Even though I despise my school to no end, I can always apply next year. I regret not applying early action and not applying to more colleges (namely Yale and Princeton).</p>
<p>Right now, I need a tub of ice cream. Congrats to all who got accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1590/2390
[</em>]SAT II: 770 bio m; 800 chem; 800 math ii
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.7
[<em>]Rank: top 10%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):ap bio 5; ap lit 5; ap bc calc 5</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: not my best
[</em>]Recs: pretty good
[<em>]Supplementary Material: extra rec from my mentor; was prob really good
[</em>]Summer Activities: research
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: nyc
[<em>]High School Type: private
[</em>]Ethnicity: asian
[li]Gender: male</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: research; piano; swimming; publications
[</em>]Awards: siemens and intel semis
[<em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: siemens and intel?
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: congrats to everyone else!!!
[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2200 (750CR, 740M, 710W)
SAT II: 800 chem, 720 math1, 690 bio
ACT:
GPA: 98.5
Rank: top 5%
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP eng language: 5. ap chem 5 Subjective
Essays: pretty chillin<br>
Supplementary Material: crazy football skills
Summer Activities: research volunteering, mad football
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):recruited football player FTW</p>
<p>Personal
Location: NY
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity:white boy
Other
Extracurriculars: 3 sports, recruiteded football player, some research some volunteering Awards: all county football player, science awards.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: i had a coach pulling for me and MIT can use some athletes
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Mwahahahah i got into MIT by pushing people on the ground, mwahahhaha</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2340
[</em>]SAT II: 760 Math II 710 Phys
[<em>]ACT: 34
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW 4.56 W
[<em>]Rank: N/A
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Obviously not good enough.
[</em>]Recs: Should’ve been great, haven’t seen them however.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Robotics Mentor letter
[</em>]Summer Activities: MATE Robotics, Baseball
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Recruited Baseball Athlete
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Central Coast, California
[<em>]High School Type: Small Private Catholic
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Robotics, Baseball, Football, Basketball, Writing for County Newspaper, Student Alliance, Book Recycling Drive
[<em>]Awards: AP Scholar, NMS Commended, Honor Roll with Distinction, Elks Club, Scholar Athlete, CIF Scholar Athlete, Departmental Science Award, etc…
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I’d assume because my essays weren’t good enough, and that’s the risk of applying EA.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Thoroughly disappointed. Man this is rough. I truly wanted to attend MIT to study engineering and play baseball. Best of luck to everyone. It’s been a tough weekend. Rejected from MIT, Caltech. At least I got into UCLA. [/ul]</p>
