***Official Early Action Results Thread for the MIT Class of 2013***

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: n/a
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 710 Physics
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 4.2 W/3.9 UW
[<em>]Rank: 2 of 53
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB 5, AP Physics C Mechanics 5, AP Computer Science AB 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: poor
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Not sure, good I guess
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Same here
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Brookfield, WI
[<em>]High School Type: private Christian
[</em>]Ethnicity: caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: 4-year varsity football, 4-year varsity baseball, 1-year varsity basketball, 2-year JV basketball
[li]Awards: 2x 2nd team all conference baseball, honorable mention all conference football[/li][/ul]</p>

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<p>Almost everybody got deferred. wow... at least no rejections yet :)</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT Verbal:740
* SAT Math: 800
* SAT Writing:710
* SAT Total:2250
* SAT II: Chem:740 Math II:800
* AP/IB taken/scores: US (5), Eng Lang(3), Bio (5), Euro (3)
* GPA weighted: 4.1
* GPA unweighted:...
* Rank or % estimate:no rank
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: yeah...something about teaching.
* Teacher Recs: Turned in two good ones
* Counselor Rec:
* Supplemental Rec(s)?:nope
* Hook (if any): No sir, I wish.
* Interview?: Yes, pretty interesting one
</code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: LA (represent!)
* School Type:Small Private
* Ethnicity:Asian
* Gender: Male
* Financial Aid?(Y/N): Y
* Legacy Yes/No: Nope, First Born.
* Recruited Yes/No: No
* Important ECs: Varsity Swimming, Varsity Track...Martial Arts?

</code></pre>

<p>Other Factors (weaknesses, strengths, etc.): idk....</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: PENN 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH BABY</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:CR:650 Math:780 Read:620
[</em>]SAT II:Math 1:760 Chem :730
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA:4.00
[<em>]Rank:6 out of 450
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):Chem 3
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:I wrote about the death of my mother
[</em>]Teacher Recs:Really good
[<em>]Counselor Rec:she likes me I think
[</em>]Supplementary Material:None
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):Err...nope
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: PA
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity:Asian
[<em>]Gender:Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars:Advanced Orchestra, Scholastic Team, Community Service Club
[<em>]Awards:None
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:I thought I was gonna get rejected outright..apparently not lol[/ul]</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2260
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Physics 800 Math IIC 800 Korean 740 US 710 Chem
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.37
[<em>]Rank: N/A
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 12 106.5 AIME 4 Cal AB(self-studied soph), Cal BC, Chem, Physics B, Physics C: Mech, Physics C: E&M(self-studied junior), US, Euro all 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Should be good, talked about how my physical ailment set my future
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One from history teacher who said to be good and another from physics teacher who said to be excellent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Should be good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: N/A
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: CA
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Math Club (3yrs) ARML, Junior Volunteer UCI Med Center(3yrs), Library Volunteer (1yr), Physics Club(creator, organized school's participation of USPhO)
[li]Awards: National AP Scholar, USAMTS, Physics Bowl Top Scorer, Korean National Math Competition 2nd Place nation (soph), Korean National Math Comp 1st&2nd Regional (10th,11th), etc.[/li][/ul]</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2050
[</em>]SAT II:Math II: 800, Bio-M: 730
[<em>]ACT:34
[</em>]GPA:3.619
[<em>]Rank:n/a
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):IB Math Studies: 6, IB French SL: 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:I thought they were good...
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One was good, didn't read the other
[<em>]Counselor Rec: I'm sure it wasn't bad...
[</em>]Supplementary Material: idk
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): not much
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: St. Louis, MO
[<em>]High School Type: College Prep/IB
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Band, Culture Club (community service)
[<em>]Awards: Nothing outstanding
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>

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<p>Deferred as well. Yikes...I can already tell this is going to be turning into a massacre.</p>

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<p>does MIT reject anybody?</p>

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<p>Accepted. OhmyGod.</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 770M 760CR 750W (9 essay) 1530 / 2280 superscored
[</em>]SAT II: 780 Math II, 760 Physics, 740 Chemistry
[<em>]ACT: 33English 35Math 32Reading 35 science 33Composite
[</em>]GPA: 3.71 / 4.0 Unweighted, school doesn't weight
[<em>]Rank: School doesn't rank
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Ap's: 4 Chemistry, 5 Calc AB, taking as a senior: Calc BC, Physics, Statistics
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Long one about my community service, voluinteering at a camp for disabled children, and the optional one about my research. Fun one about playing guitar and the MIT program/department one about thier alternate energy research program. I did a million and one drafts for each, and I was pretty happy with them.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Science teacher: best in career, english teacher pretty good.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Really good, I know her really well, and she likes me. She even flew up to Boston from FL to plead my case to the admissions officers.
[</em>]Interview: I thought it went pretty well. We talked for almost two hours.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Research paper & abstract, picture of a prototype of my patented solar iPod charger.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Research, Community service (1100+ hours)
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Northeast Florida
[</em>]High School Type: Reasonably selective independent / religious school. Sends about 3-5 out of 150 to ivys, but none to MIT for ~20 years.
[<em>]Ethnicity: vanilla
[</em>]Gender: quite manly, I daresay
[/ul]Other[ul]
[li]Extracurriculars: [/li]On app:
Varsity Cross Country (team captain in 12th grade)
Play Guitar
Sound board manager for school plays
Science olympiad
8th grade trip counselor</p>

<p>Not on app (but in resume):
Community Builders Leader
School Ambassador
Track (one year only)</p>

<p>[li]Awards:[/li]On app:
ISEF 2nd place, energy & transportation
AFCEA National Science Fair winner
Florida Junior Academy of Science state competition winner
Rotary club of NE Florida Student / Volunteer of the Year
President's volunteer service award (national)
Bausch & Lomb award
Drexel University ISEF award / $120,000 scholarship
Siemens Semifinalist (sent in email to admissions)
Patent Pending (in email to admissions)</p>

<p>Not on app (but in resume):
ISWEEP International Science fair gold medalist
State Science fair 4th place X2, 2nd place X1
Winner of school science fair X3
Cornell University Book Award
NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Joe Berg Honors Society
Foreign Language Honor Society
JETS competition bronze medalist
Science Olympiad state Silver, Bronze medalist
30+ special awards at regional, state and international science fairs</p>

<p>[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul][/li]I think the research and awards helped, and the community service put me over the edge. Plus, I talked to two of the admissions officers (Matt and Mcgreggor) when I visited MIT, and they really liked my research. To the deferred: At least you still have a ~10% chance in RD. Keep your spirits up, I'll be pulling for you! To the rejected, I'm sorry. From the looks of things, there were many well qualified and deserving students. I know I hate being told this, but it really is the person that makes the college, not the college that makes the person. I'm sure you will succeed wherever you go.</p>

<p>MIT '13!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2270 (750 M, 720 CR, 800 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 650 French
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 3.86/4.00, 4.28 Weighted
[<em>]Rank: Probably about top 1-2%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Physics B, C, Calc AB, BC, French, Stat, CS AB, all fives except for French (3)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Was pretty happy with it.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Probably decent to pretty good.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably average.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: N/A
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): US Physics Semi-Finalist, not much else.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NJ
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
[<em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Founded a math/Science Olympiad club, TSA, new jersey science league, math team, mu alpha theta, french honors society, national honors society, red cross, physics/chem club, couple other stuff.
[<em>]Awards: PSAT Commended, US Physics, sci league top 10%
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Hm, much to recollect upon.
[/ul]</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: (750 CR, 760 M)
[</em>]SAT II: 720 Chem, 770 Math2
[<em>]GPA: 3.5 UW, 4.2 W
[</em>]Rank: not ranked
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5's on two so far
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Apparently not great enough
[<em>]Teacher Recs: One decent, one great
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Not as good as I would have liked
[<em>]Supplementary Material:
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Legacy, very unique extracurriculars
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: MA
[</em>]High School Type:
[<em>]Ethnicity:
[</em>]Gender:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Pass for privacy
[</em>]Awards: None notable
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>RAGE.</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380: 800 CR, 800 M, 780 WR
[</em>]SATII: 800 Math II, 790 Chem
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 100.5 (school doesn't do 4.0 scale)
[<em>]Rank: 1 or 2 out of 160
[</em>]OtherTests(AMC,AP,IB): AP: Calc AB 5, Chem 5, English Lit 4, US Gov 5, Calc BC 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Wrote about hiking, robotics, and the main essay about a story about robotics
[</em>]TeacherRecs: I hoped they were good...
[<em>]CounselorRec: No idea
[</em>]SupplementaryMaterial: none, considered piano
[<em>]Hook(recruitedathlete,legacy,NobelPrize): n/a
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Falmouth Maine
[<em>]HighSchoolType: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Mexican (1/4)
[<em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: FIRST Robotics, Math Team, Piano Lessons, Elementary School Robotics Tutoring, JV Baseball
[<em>]Awards: None extra significant
[</em>]Advice?Commiserations?Feellikebragging?: I'm so happy right now. Good luck to all those deferred.[/ul]</p>

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<p>3 accepted...wow</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 (M: 800, CR: 780, W: 800)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 MIIC, 790 Bio-M, 770 World
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.25? W
[<em>]Rank: 4/573
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): World History (5), Statistics (5), Biology (5), Eng Lang (4), US History (4), AMC 12 (88.5)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I really liked them.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Haven't seen, but most likely good/excellent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Haven't seen, but most likely amazing
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Science Research Paper from summer program
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): um...Summer Science Program?[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Northern California
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: N[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Marching Band, Flute Section Leader; Interact Club, Vice-President; MATH Club, Secretary, Co-President; Competitive Civics; Volunteering at hospital, Projects Leader, Associate Shift Leader; Peer Tutor; CSF; Summer Science Program; Music Ambassador to Europe
[</em>]Awards: NMSF, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, RYLA, math awards[/ul]</p>

<p>I guess I didn't have anything super outstanding, like those who got accepted...I'll just work harder!</p>

<p>Congrats to everyone already in!</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>no stats. i'm an oddball, so it wouldn't help future applicants.</p>

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<p>4? Wow...</p>

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<p>i feel like MIT loves to defer people wayyy too much lol..</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2360 (780 CR 780 M 800 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 730 IIC, 720 Chem, 690 USH
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 3.95 uw
[<em>]Rank: 1 (tied w/ many others)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 AP Chem, 4 USH, 3 Euro
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: i didn't really like them, but others did so they must've been ok
[</em>]Teacher Recs: excellent
[<em>]Counselor Rec:okay
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Northern VA
[<em>]High School Type: top 100 public
[</em>]Ethnicity: African American
[<em>]Gender: F
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: nothing special - singing stuff, sports (non-varsity) consistently
[<em>]Awards: National Merit Commended, National Achievement Semi Finalist, music stuff
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I'm still in shock...seriously?</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2130 (780M, 680CR, 670W)
[</em>]SAT II:680 MII, 640 Chem
[<em>]ACT:33
[</em>]GPA:4.0uw 4.167w
[<em>]Rank:17/435
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):Stat 3, Lang 4, Chem 3
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:decent
[</em>]Teacher Recs: one awesome, one pretty good
[<em>]Counselor Rec:no clue
[</em>]Supplementary Material:N/A
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):N/A
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:Fayetteville, GA
[<em>]High School Type:Public
[</em>]Ethnicity:Caucasian
[<em>]Gender:M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars:InvenTeam: Student Design Lead, FBLA: Vice-President (11), Executive Board for Class of 2009, played competitive (club) soccer for years, National Honor Society, French Honor Society, Beta Club
[<em>]Awards:AP Scholar, Georgia Certificate of Merit, other small stuff
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
congratulations to those accepted
good luck to everyone who was deferred in the RA pool</p>

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<p>Wow....there are sooooo many defferals</p>