<pre><code>* SAT: 2360 (770V 800CR 790W
* SAT II: 800 Math II 800 Bio-M 790 Chem
* ACT: 35
* GPA: 4.74 W, 4.00 UW
* Rank: top 1%
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10: 126.5, AMC 12: 108; Aime: 4,5, respectively. APs: Bio, chem, gov, comp pol, 5's
* Essays: Pretty good, could have been better.
* Teacher Recs: Excellent
* Counselor Rec: Should be ok
* Supplementary Material: Research paper
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Chess, research?
* Location: Midwest
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
* Applied for Financial Aid: Y
* Extracurriculars: Chess (top 40 in nation), research (several papers submitted/published in peer-reviewed journals)-worked for 3 summers in same lab, 20 hrs a week part time during school year, some other stuff... Journals that I have submitted to/published: Organic Letters, Cancer Science, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Nature: Chemistry
* Awards: Siemens semifinalist, National merit semifinalist, AP scholar with honor
* Supplemental material: Recommendation from professor...maybe i should have sent in a paper like I did for Caltech?
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: uhhh.....thought I would get in...mentor even called MIT lab director to recommend me for next year...
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<p>First of all, congrats to all of you. Not just those of you who got in; if you're applying to MIT, you've probably had a pretty eventful high school career, and you deserve congratulations for that too. Second of all, I'd just like to reiterate what I've said before: deferral DOES NOT MEAN rejection. I and many of my extremely talented friends were deferred and later accepted. Don't lose hope. =]</p>
<p>Now back to putting my brain through the shredder in preparation for my chemistry finals. Why oh why did I take 5.112???</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2160 (730 CR 710 M 720 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 700 Math II, 710 Chem, 750 History (not put on app)
[<em>]ACT: did not take
[</em>]GPA: 3.8ish unweighted I think? not really sure
[<em>]Rank: 2/156
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 4s on history and chem
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: My favorite part of the application. I thought they were good but they're probably just average for MIT.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: The science one was really good (I read it) and my English teacher said she wrote lots of good stuff about me but I haven't actually seen it.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: no clue
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Massachusetts
[<em>]High School Type: Public that sometimes but not often sends kids to top schools
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: The ones I listed on my app were dance class, tech crew for theater, vice president of NHS, pep band, and flute lessons
[<em>]Awards: Harvard Book Award, PSAT Commended Student. Nothing big
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'm not actually as upset as I thought I would be... onward to those regular applications[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2120 750M 730CR 640CW
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II 800 Biology 780 Chemistry
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW 4.6ish weighted
[<em>]Rank: 4
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):Chemistry 4, Modern European history 4, English lang/comp 4, Biology 5, US history 4, French language 3
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I wrote about overcoming a difficulty in cross country through the use of research (sort of a connection to MIT I suppose) I didn't write any of the optional essays.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: pretty good but nothing extraordinary
[<em>]Counselor Rec: nothing special, doesn't really standout
[</em>]Supplementary Material:athlete, letter from MIT coach
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): recruited cross country/track athlete (letter from MIT coach), double legacy (W00T - I've known what IHTFP meant since I was 8), white female?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:upper-middle class suburb (silicon valley)
[<em>]High School Type: medium sized public school. Does have a lot of diversity though
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: cross country/ track, marching band, soccer ref, red cross,
[<em>]Awards: academic awards - rien (none other than the usual college board awards) athletic awards - a few
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I'm a good enough in cross country to run at a DI school, but MIT is better =P (this is probably what got me in)</p>
<p>I'm in!! And let me just say, it IS possible to get in with lower scores! With a 630 on my Chem test, I know how it feels! Congrats to all accepted, and good luck to all those deferred and denied, it was honor just to have competed with such amazing people!</p>
<p>BTW, anyone looking at my stats, there's a small error. In terms of other tests, I put "none" without noticing the "AP" section.
AP Tests:
AP Euro: 4
AP Comp Sci AB: 4
AP US: 4
AP Chem: 5
AP Calc BC: 5
AP Physics C: Mechanics: 3</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 770 R, 740 M, 750 W (2260)
[</em>]SAT II: 740 Math 2, 690 Biology M
[<em>]ACT: 34 (35/35/33/33)
[</em>]GPA: 3.92 unweighted, school doesn’t weight
[<em>]Rank: top 10%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB-4, APUSH-4, Eng Lit-5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: very honest.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: very good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: generic, although it did say MIT was my first choice
[</em>]Supplementary Material: filled out all the optional essays (with the completely optional one about how much I wanted to go to MIT), also a recommendation from the staff of WTP
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I dropped out of college at 14? (long story) I don’t know. I hope it was my willingness to be honest that won them over.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: WA
[<em>]High School Type: huge, mediocre public
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: theater, student government, newspaper, science olympiad
[<em>]Awards: lots of theater awards, nothing huge, national merit semifinalist, ap scholar
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I pretty much did “everything wrong” and got into MIT.
[/ul]</p>
<p>"And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you." - Suzan-Lori Parks</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 680 CR, 740 M, 790 W = 2210 (best). Worst= 620 cr, 690m, 720 w
[</em>]SAT II: 770 M2, 760 M1, 710 Chem, 670 French (doesn't matter)
[<em>]ACT: 31 but didn't submit
[</em>]GPA: 91.24%
[<em>]Rank: school doesn't rank but top quintile
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): none
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: don't know how to describe, but I really think they were well done, represented me well, and showed my match for the school
[</em>]Teacher Recs: one was great about risk taking, one not read
[<em>]Counselor Rec: I'm sure it was great
[</em>]Supplementary Material: TWO extra recs (one was short) from a teacher and a comm service supervisor
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): absolutely nothing
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Western MA
[<em>]High School Type: Private and selective
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: ECs- snowboarding, community service, working on my car, golfing, and an international conference
[<em>]Awards: nothing overly major, no intel, siemiens, etc.<br>
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] it was all about the subjective, and my personality which I really worked HARD to convey. I definitely went all or nothing on this. I went out of the way to visit multiple times, contact admissions officers, and convey a genuine interest. MIT was undoubtedly my first choice. I am SO EXCITED! Thank you so much to everyone on this site for your support and the tremendous resource this has been. I genuinely wish the deferred the best of luck possible.</p>
<p>EDIT: **Sorry, I'm not sure how to format this... :/ and I'm too excited to figure it out right now! I may revise later to give a more complete picture of my application if possible.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2290 (780 CR, 740 M, 770 W) only took it once
[</em>]SAT II: 720 mathI, 630 bio (yeah, i know.)
[<em>]ACT: none
[</em>]GPA: my school doesn't have GPA but I think I'd have around a 3.6 unweighted.
[<em>]Rank: also do not have.
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP English Lit 4, AP Comp Sci AB 4, AP US History 4, this year taking AP Stats, AP English Lang, AP Calc AB
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were pretty good, maybe too much about school ( I did the community one though..) and I did all the optional ones and tried to make it clear that MIT is my first choice
[</em>]Teacher Recs:Pretty good I think.. definitely describe me as a person, not just as a student
[<em>]Counselor Rec:Should be pretty good but I haven't seen it.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None, probably a mistake, didn't even send a resume beyond the 5 extracurriculars on the app, but I will now. Also probably should have made a flute recording
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None really, I should have contacted the field hockey coach but i'm not sure that I want to play in college.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Suburban NY
[<em>]High School Type: Private(secular), very selective
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: I have alot but I only listed 5 on the app because I thought they didn't want resumes... whatever I'll send the rest in now and I've actually done alot since I sent the app in so that's good I guess
[<em>]Awards: School Comp Sci award, National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'm pretty upset about it.[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted!!! Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2230 (720CR, 780M, 730W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 720 Spanish
[<em>]ACT:None
[</em>]GPA: 4.106/4.300
[<em>]Rank: 2/340
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
5s on US Hist, Calc BC, Spanish Lang, English Lang/Comp
6 on IB Comp Sci SL
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Loved my main essay, it was very personal so it was really authentic. My two optional showed lighter aspects of my personality
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Humanities was excellent, not sure about my Physics one as I never read it, sent an extra from a professor at Rutgers who I interned with which was excellent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good I assume, never saw it
[</em>]Supplementary Material:Sent my extended essay which was based on the work I did at Rutgers, and a CD containing my IB Comp Sci Internal Assessment
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NJ
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Aviation training since I was 9, string quartet, Habitat for humanity, virtual controlling on VATSIM network, webmaster experience and a few more
[<em>]Awards: NHS, NSHSS, Spanish Honors Society, AP Student with Honors, Commended Student
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I am so happy right now! Congrats to all my fellow classmates, and good luck for those who were deferred!
[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2390
[</em>]SAT II:800 math2, 800 chem, 800 phsycis
[<em>]ACT:na
[</em>]GPA:4.0 uw, 4.5 w
[<em>]Rank:1/306
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): qualified AIME 3x; AP tests (all 5): comp sci ab, calc bc, chem, physics c m, physics c e&m, art history, english lang
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: long was bad, optional was good, shorts were good
[</em>]Teacher Recs:1 great, 1 good, 1 meh
[<em>]Counselor Rec:decent
[</em>]Supplementary Material:research abstract
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): HA! ._.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:CA
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity:asian
[<em>]Gender: f
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: sci bowl, prez of sci club, prez of math club, prez of chem club, piano, volunteer at hospital, tutoring, TA for ap chem, ocean sci bowl, etc...
[<em>]Awards: the usual stuff, 9th place national sci bowl
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: expected it. Friend flipped a coin--heads in, tails out. he thought he flipped a tails, but turns out he was unfamiliar with the austrian shilling and it was actually heads, so i guess i'm getting in rd! <em>hope and pray</em>[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2260
[</em>]SAT II: Math II 800 Physics 760
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 3.95
[<em>]Rank: 5 of 114
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Probably incredible
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Most likely ok
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Wisconsin
[<em>]High School Type: Religious
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars:I play percussion and do the math team (2x MVP, 25 medals, MSOE OP first place in a tie, etc)
[li]Awards: National Merit Scholarship, NHS[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2200 (800M, 730CR, 670 WR)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Physics, 730 US History
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.0UW/4.28W
[<em>]Rank: no rank
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5's on AP Chemistry, Physics B, US History, English Language, Comparative Politics. Currently taking AP Art History, Physics C, English Lit., US Govt., Comp. Sci AB, Calculus BC
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good imo
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Did not read
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Did not read
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Southern AZ
[<em>]High School Type: Top 25 US News, Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Eagle Scout, Varsity Track and Soccer, Science Club, Science Olympiad, Programming
[<em>]Awards: NMSF, AP Scholar With Distinction, Placed high in state math competition
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: 0/2 between MIT and Caltech... should have just applied to CMU ED =([/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800/800/800 (80/12) (Ironically enough, I just got my QAS results and I apparently got every question on the entire test right - some good it did me)
[</em>]SAT II: Chem 800, Math II 800, US History 800
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 4.000 unweighted
[<em>]Rank: 1 of about 200
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): five APs, 5s on all (several self-studied); AIME 5 (not that great for MIT, I know, but I just want to be a chem/bio major!)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I felt pretty confident about the short ones, and thought that the long one was fairly good, but I don't have anything to compare them to. Perhaps not creative enough? A friend of mine wrote hers (for a different school) about how her car wouldn't start in the morning - I just discussed an influential person in my academic career.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I haven't read them, of course, but to my knowledge both individuals considered me highly.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: New counselor for the year - tried to get to know as much as possible, brought resume and packet of related material to her, talked about it - I don't know what I could have done better.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Interview was over three hours long, and we got along really well. My EC even let me borrow a (really awesome) book about MIT's hacks for two weeks. I don't know how much of a role the interview plays, though. I also included a bunch of clarifying material on various features of my application - I hope the extra information didn't disadvantage me, in terms of time to read it (?!)
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I'm not female, URM, or particularly athletic.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Midwest
[<em>]High School Type: public, suburban, ~1,000 (rapidly growing, hence the seemingly low graduating class size)
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male (yes, the kind subject to 9.1% admit rates last year, and probably even worse this time around)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: I didn't found a charity or discover a new species of lizard or become a multimillionaire - is that what I was 'supposed' to be doing? Short of that, though, I did pretty much everything I could - strong, multi-year commitments in about half a dozen activities that I really enjoy, less major ones in a few others (not for resume fluff - I just didn't have time to get more involved), research, a few hundred hours of community service, part-time job.
[<em>]Awards: NMSF, Eagle Scout, AP Scholar with Distinction, some random other stuff, but nothing super-high level as of the time of application.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don't understand what I did wrong, or failed to do right for that matter. I've wanted to go here since my fifth grade year, and through tons of college research, that has never changed. Ultimately, a demographic bulge and a terrible economy are collaborating to ruin the plans I have tended so carefully for so long.... I feel absolutely horrible.[/ul]</p>
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* SAT: 800/800/800 (80/12) (Ironically enough, I just got my QAS results and I apparently got every question on the entire test right - some good it did me)
* SAT II: Chem 800, Math II 800, US History 800
* ACT: 36
* GPA: 4.000 unweighted
* Rank: 1 of about 200
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): five APs, 5s on all (several self-studied); AIME 5
<p>Wow. Those are some impressive resumes that got deferred.</p>
<p>I was deferred as well, with a much less impressive resume. I guess my chances are practically nil of getting in for RA, as my essay sucked and I have literally no non-athletic extracurriculars (outside of a job).</p>