<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2290 (800M, 780CR, 710W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 math 2, 780 physics, 760 chem
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 108.6w, 98uw (out of 100)
[<em>]Rank: 1/416
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Physics B, Euro, APUSH = 5; AP English Lang. = 4
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: honest, creative
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: filled out all optional essays, recommendations from WTP and SHP
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NY
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: lots (wtp-me, columbia shp, honor societies, school clubs...)
[<em>]Awards: national merit commended, AP scholar with honor, a few small competition honorable mentions
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Good luck to everyone who was deferred! Can't wait to meet the rest of you MIT '13ers!!</p>
<p>My stats...look really crappy compared to everyone else's here...so I'm not going to put them up.
But I was ACCEPTED!
So good luck to all and excited to meet the rest of MIT '13!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:N/A
[</em>]SAT II: MathII-720 Physics-770
[<em>]ACT:33
[</em>]GPA:96.56 W
[<em>]Rank: 12/649
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Average, I can't think of a good topic
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Idk, How do most of you know?
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Idk
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): ummm...
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Suburb, Upstate New York
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Pacific Islander
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Boy Scouts, Varsity Lacrosse
[<em>]Awards: Academic award in lax, Eagle Scout(as of yesterday so not on app but I will add it as a supplement)
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]: I would brag if I got in...but I feel like a weak applicant compared to everyone else here. I have never heard of doing research and science competitions.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the admittance rate of the deferred?
So what's the admittance rate EA here so far among CC ers?</p>
<p>mcubed, I feel a lot like you. I've never done any sort of science research or competitions or anything like that, just sports (and lots of them). Good GPA, good ACT score...I was deferred, and I doubt I'll get in RA.</p>
<p>Accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGGG OMGGG OMGGGG OMGGG SOO UNEXPECTED!!!!!!</p>
<p>Wow....after looking at those deferred people's stats...I now truly feel humbled and honored to have been to accepted...though be warned....I'm pretty much an oddball and my stats = crappy, so my stats below prob won't help you too much.</p>
<p>[/list]Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2160 (M: 760 CR: 720 W: 680)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 = 800, Physics = 760, USH = 750
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: UW GPA > 3.8, W GPA>4.0
[<em>]Rank: 16 out of ~250 in this Connecticut HS I transferred to 10 months ago from NJ.
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB (5), AP Physics B (4), AP USH (4), currently taking AP Environmental Science, AP Biology, AP English Literature, and AP European History
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Talked about my physical disability in context of my whole life, low expectations from my teachers, relatives, and peers, and academics.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Said to be very good. One was awesome..said "clearly, she is the best of the best."
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Said to be very good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Sent in a co-authored research paper & a letter of recommendation from a MIT professor I had worked with over the past summer @ Harvard Medical School.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): life impacting physical disability (?) & the fact I had worked with a MIT professor for the summer (?)
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Southeastern Connecticut...moved from northern New Jersey 10 months ago.
[<em>]High School Type: 1000 ish public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian (chinese)
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Year long research internship at University of Connecticut's Mercury Lab, Founder and president of the math club at CT HS, founder and president of the book club at NJ HS, Science Olympaid at CT HS, and school newspaper editor at CT HS and a reporter at NJ HS. Those aren't much compared to what all of those deferred people's are....
[<em>]Awards: National merit commended, and ap scholar...seriously. that is all the awards I have....none of those math or science awards that a lot of other people seem to have. I've also done NO math or science competitions throughout my high school career. NO ISEF, WESTINGHOUSE, SIEMENS or anything like that!! I even never took AMC tests!
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Congrats to those who got in! For those deferred, don't be discouraged. You still have a chance. Make sure to write a very good essay and get good people to write you a stellar letter of recs...those might make a diff more than you think.</p>
<p>wildcharermage. your story is pretty inspiring. you got defered from caltech and uchicago right? you should totally just call them and tell them about it (subtly and with composure though), haha.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: 1 about a market place, 1 about research, 1 abstract
[</em>]Teacher Recs: idk
[<em>]Counselor Rec: idk
[</em>]Supplementary Material: add'l rec
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Illinois
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: Female</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Math Team, Orchestra, Tennis, WYSE
[</em>]Awards: AP Scholar w/ Distinction, Siemens Semifinalist, NCTE nomination
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]: WOW, I still can't believe that I got in. After I skimmed the letter and saw "pleasure" "admission" "Class of 2013", I stopped reading and cried. Seriously, it's really humbling to be admitted as 1 out the 540 in a STRONG applicant pool of 5,000. I would have been happy with a deferral. [/li]Congrats all! and Good Luck everyone else!!!!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2290 770CR 720M 800W
SAT IIs: 760 Bio E, 740 Math I + 730 Math II (not sure which they used)
GPA: 96/100
Rank: 7/148
Other stats: 5 on AP English Lit. (school does not offer AP or IB classes)
Subjective:
Essays: "For Fun" essay - About wildlife rehabilitation
Main essay - Chose the "Tell us about your world" essay. I told about growing up convinced that humans were destroying the world and therefore living with a survival guide and preparing for the world's end - and how it linked to my environmental ECs.
Optional - About the school student recycling program I created.
Teacher Recs: One outstanding, one decent (I think. I didn't see the 2nd.)
Counselor Rec: Decent (again, didn't see, so no idea)
Awards: NMSF, Renesslaer Medal, Bausch and Lomb Science Award
Hook (if any): No born-with hooks, but my ECs were interesting (two just plain bizarre) - no Key Club or NHS here - and focused on my proposed major (Environmental Engineering).
Location/Person: Small town where one person (an African American) has gone to MIT in the last 10 years. Like I said, we don't even have APs.
State or Country: NY
School Type: Public, baby.
Ethnicity: White as Michael Jackson. Wait. But yeah, I didn't answer on the application.
Gender: Female
Other Factors: I'm 400% positive that my ECs were what got me in (I won't list them, but I had 4 prominent leadership positions both in-school and in a national organization, and my ECs were not at all typical - for example, instead of being on an Olympiad team, I started/captained an Envirothon team and wrote the team's entire curriculum. And I treated mange-ridden foxes and raised orphaned possums to be released back into the wild.) And possibly my lady parts.
General Comments: I won't be attending MIT (I'm ED-bound to Cornell and the $15,000/year tuition cut I'll get by going there as a NYS resident); I'm actually a tiny bit sorry that I was accepted because I know how desperately most of you wanted to get in (I never, ever thought that I'd be accepted to both my ED - which I adore - AND MIT EA. The other person in my school who applied EA was also accepted (keep in mind that I live in a podunk small town where only one person - a URM - has gone to MIT in 10 years, and where maybe one person every two or three years goes to a place like an Ivy League school); she's (yes, another girl) a sweetheart and absolutely brilliant (and a beauty), and she deserves it 100% (she'll be seeing you acceptees in the fall). I know that MIT is the peak of academic awesomeness, but my heart belongs to Cornell. To next year's applicants (or this year's): Be INTERESTING. MIT is deluged with 2300+ SAT valedictorians who've worked in university labs; it's bored to tears with them. Have a different story to tell than "How I Totally Discovered How Cancer Works In Mice This Summer"; be fabulous and they'll know you are. Also, be lucky. Luck's a HUGE part of admissions in most situations where the acceptance rate is below 10-15%.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2280 (2 sittings: 800 M, 770 W, 710 CR)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 800; Biology 710; Math 1 770
[<em>]ACT: 34
[</em>]GPA: 4.19 (school does it weirdly, no idea what this translates to)
[<em>]Rank: top 5-10%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC - don't remember.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Eh, okay, maybe. Don't really remember.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Probably fairly awesome
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably awesome
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Art portfolio
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: New York State
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: President of community service club, Science Olympiad, Math Club,
[<em>]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, National Honor Society, other stuff.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>
Last year, 279 of the 2903 deferred students were admitted during RD.</p>
<p>
[quote=Mcubed23]
So what's the admittance rate EA here so far among CC ers?
Keep in mind that this is a really skewed sample in the first place, because CC users are more likely to be clued in to the college admissions process than the average applicant. And then it's skewed in the second place because people who are admitted are much more likely to post (particularly if they're lurkers) than people who were deferred or rejected.
I'll repeat again that the sample here is highly skewed -- most of the people I knew at MIT did not participate in research while in high school, and most were not competition participants.</p>
<p>So after skimming through all the posts, it SEEMS like SAT scores don't matter that much? Although it's safe to say most have at least 2200 (who were accepted).</p>
<p>It seems to me that MIT cares about (science/math related) ECs the most?</p>
<p>Idk I guess it's hard to prove these things.</p>
<p>279 out of 2903 is like 9.6%. Does this mean I have a worse chance of getting in than a regular action applicant? I bet there are more deferred this year so getting deferred pretty much means rejected. I feel so hopeless.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 760 V 800 M 770 W
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Chem 800 Math IIC 780 Physics
[<em>]ACT: 35 (33 reading, 35 english, 36 math, 35 science) 9 essay :(
[</em>]GPA: 3.889/4.000
[<em>]Rank: unsure. we don't rank at our school
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10 127? AMC 12 i think 105 AIME 3 i think. AP Chem 5, AP BC Calc 5, i'm taking two ib's and taking another ap this year
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: i thought these were strong. did community and a creation essay.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Thought these too were relatively strong.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Had a good recommendation from him but then again, he might have for everyone...
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Did not send yet.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): um...semifinalist chem olympiad? maybe?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NJ
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: ASIAN
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Large range: Model UN, Math Team, Clarinet, Lacrosse, Bunch of extra programs, NHS, Tri-M, etc.
[<em>]Awards: 3rd for state chem competition. a bunch of honor bands.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Eh, i guess I was a little too plain. Anybody's thoughts or comments? [/ul]</p>
<p>
[quote]
279 out of 2903 is like 9.6%. Does this mean I have a worse chance of getting in than a regular action applicant?
[/quote]
Last year, 9471 students applied RD, and 753 RD applicants were admitted during the RD round (8%). So 9.6% is marginally better than that. Still, it doesn't mean EA deferrees are favored or not favored during RD -- it's that EA deferrees tend to have stronger applications and are admitted at a slightly higher rate during RD.</p>
<p>
[quote]
I bet there are more deferred this year so getting deferred pretty much means rejected. I feel so hopeless.
[/quote]
Getting deferred means rejected in the same way applying means rejected -- you have pretty much the same odds of getting in at any stage of the admissions process, it's just that there are a lot of applicants for not a lot of spots.</p>
<p>There's really not any evidence to say whether or not one section is looked at more closely than another. The admitted student numbers are pretty reflective of the pool as a whole -- more applicants have high math scores than have high CR scores.</p>
<p>
[quote]
MIT is deluged with 2300+ SAT valedictorians who've worked in university labs; it's bored to tears with them.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Whoops...sounds like me.</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2330 770 M 760 V 800 W
[</em>]SAT II: 800 IIC 800 Physics 760 US History 750 Chem
[<em>]ACT: Nah
[</em>]GPA: 4.00, 103.3 weighted 96.0 unweighted?
[<em>]Rank: 1 out of 713 (Huge private school)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 French, 5 US History, 4 Microeconomics, 4 Macroeconomics, and 3 Physics B (Had a really horrible day...800 in Physics SAT II pretty much nullifies this.)
[/ul][ b]Subjective*[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Inspiring, reflective of my dreams.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good/Generic
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good/Generic (Huge school)
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Two research abstracts, two recommendations, and a resume. Summer of Junior Year did a research internship in MIT's nuclear engineering department and worked on evaluating a quantum algorithm -- did simulations with MATLAB code and a NMR spectrometer. Got a glowing recommendation from my professor - brilliant guy that discovered pseudopure states. Summer of Senior Year did a research internship in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science -- worked on a microfluidics project evaluating how variations in orifice dimension and nozzle geometry would affect the monodispersity of drops through a PDMS device. Developed software in LabView for image processing and particle analysis. The post-doc I worked for and the professor that ran the group collectively wrote a recommendation that they sent in.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Glowing recommendation from a MIT professor?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: New Hampshire
[<em>]High School Type: Private
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: XY
[/ul]Other*[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: See stats profile -- bunch of leadership positions on school academically competitive teams, loads of political involvement, and community service. 2 summer research internships.
[<em>]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, one state award, few other generic awards.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Harvard legacy probs hurts my chances at top schools like MIT. Being a white male also didn't help. At least I got into UChicago.</p>
<p>I still really like MIT, and I'm grateful that they gave me a reality check to get going on my college apps. The admissions protocol seems rather different than most Ivies, but I think that this will manifest itself in the way that MIT grads go out to change the world.</p>