<p>Deferred</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]SAT II: 720 math,760 bio
[</em>]ACT:33
[<em>]GPA:3.9 UW
[</em>]Other Tests AP bio, us, english all 5s
[<em>]Essays:i liked them
[</em>]Teacher Recs: excellent
[<em>]Supplementary Material: none
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nope[/ul]</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:
[</em>]SAT II: 730 Math I, 650 Chem. Pretty terrible. I know. I took Math II and Chem again and am awaiting the results.
[<em>]ACT:34
[</em>]GPA:3.8 UW. 4.4 W
[<em>]Rank: top 10%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 7 APs total.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: About me experiencing the tsunami and terrorist attacks first hand.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: great - I presume
[<em>]Counselor Rec: great - I presume
[</em>]Supplementary Material: I wrote about my idea of using interchangeable lithium ion batteries to power cars.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nope
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: PA
[<em>]High School Type: average
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: NHS President, School Store manager, FBLA Officer, Chess Club co-founder, Spanish Club
[<em>]Awards: None worth mentioning
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I'll take it. I think I will have a better chance in the RD pool anyways. My GPA is a 5.0 W, 4.0 UW right now, and I am getting a job at the University of Delaware doing research. Congratulations to all two of you people that actually got in!</p>
<p>so I guess if ur not accepted, ur automatically deferred?</p>
<p>not a single rejection yet</p>
<p>hate to say it, but it seems like for mit, the deferral IS the nice rejection</p>
<p>I would be really surprised if nobody was rejected this year.</p>
<p>Any student who's deferred to RD is someone the admissions committee thinks is a competitive applicant. It's not a "polite rejection" -- deferred EA applicants historically do quite well in the RD pool.</p>
<p>Well I think these stats are pretty biased. I mean, yeah there are a lot of deferrals here, but its the most committed people who are posting on these forums. Those with worse chances probably aren't even looking at the forum; they accept their rejection and move on. Even those who DO use the forums would probably be reserved about posting because they don't want to be the first one to have been rejected.</p>
<p>There are a lot of deferrals here, yeah. But that doesn't necessarily mean there aren't a typical amount of rejections.</p>
<p>Or maybe I'm just trying to rationalize being deferred.</p>
<p>I'll break the streak. I was rejected. Stats in a minute.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300
[</em>]SAT II: 800 MATH, 780 CHEM
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 3.9
[<em>]Rank: School doesn't rank, but in the TOP
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: i thought they were good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good?
[<em>]Counselor Rec: good?
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:USA
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: asian
[<em>]Gender: F
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: environmental awareness <3
[<em>]Awards: nothing special, some state and national awards :)
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>
<p>Congrats everyone!</p>
<p>look on the mit admissions page, they have a post for rejections and there is quite a lot of chatter on it</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300 (M: 800, CR: 710, W: 790)
[</em>]SAT II: Math IIC: 770, Chem: 790
[<em>]ACT: None
[</em>]GPA: 3.5 UW (This was probably the reason)
[<em>]Rank: Unknown, but not even close to the top 10%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): None
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good as well.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: I think this was pretty strong, the counselor liked me and thought I fit MIT pretty well.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: East Coast
[<em>]High School Type: Public, but many kids into top schools
[</em>]Ethnicity: Indian. Not a US citizen either.
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Varsity Tennis, Founder of School Engineering Club, School MUN VP
[<em>]Awards: National Merit Commendation, couple MUN awards, Moody's Mega Math Competition top 60 Teams, Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams top 32
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I'm a bit surprised, to be quite honest. I really loved MIT so I guess I'm also a bit saddened.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>so excited</p>
<p>brenner, i completely agree with you. i only got deferred, but i am still too lazy to post all of my stats in this thread. were i rejected, i would probably have even less motivation to do so</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: did not take
[</em>]SAT II: Physics: 800 Math II: 800 Biology M: 750
[<em>]ACT: 35 [34 E 36M 36R 36S 10W]
[li]GPA: 4.0/5.15[/li][</em>]Rank: 1 of 435
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Stats: 5 AP Calc: 5 AP Bio: 4 AP human geo: 5 AP macroeconomics: 5 AP U.S. History 4
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Probably led to my deferral :(
[<em>]Teacher Recs: good
[</em>]Counselor Rec: good
[<em>]Supplementary Material: none
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): MIT coach wrote rec for me, but doesn't really matter for DIII
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: MN
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>]Gender: male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: too lazy to list
[</em>]Awards: see above
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] bleh. not my first choice, but I'm still disappointed</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:n/a
[</em>]SAT II: Math 1(740) Biology M(720)
[<em>]ACT: 31
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 unweighted
[<em>]Rank: 1 of 55
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): n/a
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Wrote moving essay about a summer of suffering the deaths of 3 loved ones. Decribes the situations' impact on me and my future ambitions.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: 2 Stellar recs
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Stellar ++
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Opted to write in the "additional info" essay about my scientific research studying a specific spider species and their sociability changes.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): haha. No, nothing quite</em> like that.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Tennessee
[</em>]High School Type: Private, parochial.
[<em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: All academic societies, FCA President, Cheerleading Co-Captain, Yearbook Editor-in-Chief, Reading, Guitar, etc...
[</em>]Awards: Governor's School (1 of 30), NSHSS, Who's Who Among High School Scholars, All-American At Large, U.S. Achievement Academy (Service & Leadership and English), etc...
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] No advice... not sure what I did wrong? :</p>
<p>Deferred..stats later</p>
<p>Feel a bit lonely on this plateau of rejection lol</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1870 (630 Critical Reading, 600 Math, 640 Writing)
[</em>]SAT II: 550 Math 1, 520 Biology
[<em>]ACT:N/A
[</em>]GPA: 3.81W (honors courses taken in Texas but not factored into this GPA)
[<em>]Rank:Top 1%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Intended major: Computer Science. What you do for fun: Drawing.
Personal Statement: how working as a "janitor" along with my parents started my love for animation. Creation: website made for friend who is a rapper. Optional: how my mother's cancer motivated me to want to research cancer to find a cure. Supplemental:how much I wanted to go to MIT
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Humanities:lukewarm. Science teacher's was absolutely amazing
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Don't know about the quality but I assume it was good.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Art portfolio
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): low-income, inner city school, obstacles
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Boston, MA
[<em>]High School Type: Inner-city (you start pre-algebra type classes in the 10th and start pre-calc in 12th. Science courses are a joke. No APs, IBs only four "core" classes)
[</em>]Ethnicity:Nigerian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars:C++ Programming, 3D Animation, drawing, Computer graphics,<-- all self taught Future Engineers Club, Harvard GSD summer program, Harvard GSD citizen's schools
[<em>]Awards: Radioshack Scholar, various school awards
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] First of all, congrats to everyone who got in, and I'm really sorry to those who did not.</p>
<p>I am really excited(weird huh). I seriously thought that my application would've been flat-out rejected. Now before anyone says anything, I'd like to put myself within context because many feel that minorities have the "easy way out." First off, I'm not even from Boston; I'm originally from Texas. I stayed there until my sophomore year. However during my freshman year, I had to follow my parents to the janitorial service jobs. Every Friday, my parents would take my brother and I to this gas station/Wendy's at 12 o'clock at night. We would help them sweep and mop. On Sundays it was even worse. My father had suffered from many strokes and could not do the work so I had to vacuum sixteen rooms and sweep a huge warehouse. My mother at this time was working double shifts at a nursing home and soon contracted sarcoma cancer. We were forced to move to Boston and stay with my aunt. After a year, we moved from shelter to shelter and finally to the projects we currently reside in that has a rep for murders and shootings. </p>
<p>I know that I'll probably get blasted for even being deferred but I wanted to give hope to those who are in situations like mine.</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2250 (660 CR, 800 M, 790 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 770 Math II, 770 Physics, 760 Chem, 750 US Hist. 690 Bio M
[<em>]ACT: didn't submit
[</em>]GPA: 3.875 UW
[<em>]Rank: 50/821 (top 6%)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): US History: 5, AMC 10: 100.5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: ok
[</em>]Teacher Recs: one was ok, other was somewhat good (guessing)
[<em>]Counselor Rec: decent, dont really know her
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: suburban Atlanta
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Science Olympiad, Key Club, West Point Bridge Online, Science NHS, Mu Alpha Theta
[<em>]Awards: French NHS membership, high class rank award, excellence in math/science school awards, summa cum laude on Latin I National Latin Exam
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] This is ****ing me off</p>
<p>I'm going to get the tube in the mail soon. Good luck to everyone.
With this it is 2 on 2 in early action.</p>
<p>at least you are unique strife :]</p>