Official MIT Class of 2012 Early Action Decisions Thread

<p>deferred =/</p>

<p>Dear Deferred (okay i made that up),</p>

<p>We have completed our Early Action review of your application and have chosen to defer it to our Regular Action review time. Please know that the Admissions Committee is very conservative in its early offers of admission, and the majority of students who apply in Early Action are deferred. In previous years, up to several hundred of them have subsequently been admitted in Regular Action.</p>

<p>Please remember to ask your Guidance Counselor to complete your Mid-year Grade Report Form (a copy can be found in your application booklet or on our web site). You will hear from us again in late March after further review of your application.</p>

<p>We hope that you have a healthy and safe holiday season, and best wishes for a happy new year.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Stuart Schmill
Interim Dean of Admissions</p>

<p>DEFERRED...</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 2260 (Critical Reading: 730, Math: 780, Writing: 750)
* SAT II: Math IIC: 800, Biology: 800
* ACT: N/A
* GPA: 3.9
* Rank: 1/586
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5's in AP bio, cal, and US history
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: I thought it was pretty good...
* Teacher Recs: Haven't seen them but i was told from both teachers that they were great.
* Counselor Rec: It was alright --- she doesn't know me that well
* Supplementary Material: N/A
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nothing that really stands out
</code></pre>

<p>Personal</p>

<pre><code>* Location: New Bedford, MA
* High School Type: Large public
* Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
* Gender: Female
* Applied for Financial Aid: yes and fee waiver
</code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: varsity soccer, varsity track (indoor and outdoor), and varsity debate team. key club (president) and i'm so bummed i can't remember the rest...
* Awards: nothing special --- a few book awards, math student of the year, national honor society, a few scholarships, etc.
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I almost wish i had been rejected just so i can get some closure...
</code></pre>

<p>congrats to all those accepted and good luck to the deferred !!!</p>

<p>Dammit, now i have to finish my other apps</p>

<p>@ polar8: <a href="http://decisions.mit.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://decisions.mit.edu&lt;/a>, and use your MyMIT login.</p>

<p>Accepted OH MY GOD</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 2260 (740CR 800M 720W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math2C / 780 Chem
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] GPA: 4.16 weighted
[<em>] Rank: school doesn't rank
[</em>] APs: Calc AB, Calc BC, Chemistry, Comp Sci AB, US History, Physics C E&M (4 here, all the rest were 5's), Physics C Mech. Currently taking: English Lit, Psychology, Microeconomics
[<em>] AMC10 143, AMC12 112.5, AIME 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>] Essays: counselor/peers/alums have deemed them excellent
[<em>] Teacher Recs: An awesome rec from my physics teacher/robotics mentor, and an ok one from a humanities teacher whom I haven't had since 10th grade (but my English teacher of 3 years passed away last summer)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good, I think?
[<em>] Additional Rec: one from my internship mentor
[</em>] Interview: ~35 min, very late evening after interviewer had had about 4 people in a row. We were both tired.
[<em>] Art portfolio: I think it was ok. Never had art classes, but the art teacher at my school liked it.
[</em>] Hooks: n/a
[<em>] Strengths: essays, robotics, general compsci-ness
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA/courseload, and some of my ECs and awards
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>] Location: bay area, CA
[</em>] High School Type: private school, class size ~150. (I know of about 12-16 who applied EA, there may be more)
[<em>] Ethnicity: chinese
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid: Y
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars on app: FIRST Robotics (co-pres), USACO (gold), WiSTEM (co-pres), speedcubing (21.60 sec), piano (12 yrs)
[<em>] Awards: USAMTS, FIRST, Latin, Cum Laude, JETS
[</em>] Summer 2007: internship @ Stanford, programmed a virtual surgical trainer
[<em>] Summer 2006: Canada/USA Mathcamp and designing/machining some cute</a> mecanum wheels
[li] Complaints: My internship partner got Siemens semifinalist with our project, so technically I could have =/[/li][</em>] Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I've done less than half of my regular action essays. WHO CARES :D[/ul]
1.5 hours to calm down before quizbowl haha</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 2180 (Critical Reading: 700, Math: 800, Writing: 680)</li>
<li>SAT II: Math IIC: 800, Chemistry: 800, Physics: 800</li>
<li>ACT: N/A</li>
<li>GPA: 3.9ish</li>
<li>Rank: 1/95</li>
<li>Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): IB Diploma Candidate, AP Calc BC (5) Took AMC and AIME... not good</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: good..</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: excellent</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: excellent</li>
<li>Supplementary Material: extra essay</li>
<li>Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nothing much</li>
</ul>

<p>Personal</p>

<ul>
<li>Location: Outside US</li>
<li>High School Type: Small Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Applied for Financial Aid: yes</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars: lacrosse, math team, shp, band, nhs vice president, student counicil secretary, soccer, etc... not really strong</li>
<li>Awards: rensselaer medalist, dean's list kind of thing..</li>
<li>Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I think rejection is better....</li>
</ul>

<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2360 (800M, 760CR, 800W)
[</em>]SAT II: 790 Chem, 780 Math II
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 4.66/3.96 (weighted/unweighted)
[<em>]Rank: 5/384
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 in Bio, 5 in Chem, 4 in Psych, didn't take the APUSH test.....taking Econ, Gov, Lit, Comp, Calc BC, Physics
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Techno Music, Facebook Groups, Science Olympiad Scrambler, Business/Science Love
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Chem teacher, english teacher, academic team coach, DECA advisor....all pretty much rocked
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Should have been pretty good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None, probably should send some now though
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Not much, apparently haha....thought me wanting to go into business would help[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Northwest Indiana
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Straight-up White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: DECA State President, Academic Team President/Captain of all 4 Teams, Student Body Vice-President, Varsity XC/Swimming/Track, NHS, Project X, SADD
[</em>]Awards: NMSF, AP Scholar, 3-time DECA State Champion/International Qualifer, 6 SciOly Gold Medals at State (and 9 others), JETS State Champions, much more that I'm too angry to list at the moment
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: It's going to be a loooong 4 months.....blehhh[/ul]</p>

<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: Bad... 600ish on each
SAT II: US His: 760, Bio E: 690... , Math I&II: 700 ish, Physics: 550 (Don't ask..)
ACT: C: 29, E: 29ish, M: 28, R: 35, S: 28ish W: 10/12
GPA: 4.00 (Unweighed)
Rank: 1/130
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 AP His, 4 AP Lan, (Taking AP Phys online, AP Bio, AP Lit, No other APs offered at school... )</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Pretty good, I wrote about when my brother died for a "Day that your world seemed to end". (Extra essay was great tho!)
Teacher Recs: Awsome :)
Counselor Rec: She knows me well so... should have been good...
Supplementary Material: Extra letter of Rec., and essay on what makes a good citizen...
Interview: Nothing special, he thought it was crazy that I had to drive about 3 hrs to get there though. lol
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): In a deprived area maybe? Not many people plan on going to college... nothing really special.</p>

<p>Personal:
Location: West Virginia
High School Type: >500 in middle of nowhere.. (AA) Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: F
Applied for Financial Aid: Y</p>

<p>Other:
Extracurriculars: Swim Team [4 Years], Model UN <a href="Best%20Delegation,%20Best%20Resolution,%20Best%20Delegate">3 Years</a>, Young Republicans Club <a href="Treasure,%20VP">4 Years</a>, Nat'l Hon. Society [2 Years], Womens Tech Club [ 4 Years]</p>

<p>Awards: WV West Point Bridge Contest 1st place State, Citizenship Award, Young Writers 2nd place, Bridge Design Award [School], other random school awards... </p>

<p>Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Honestly I am not surprised, my scores basically just put my foot in the door and I don't have any math awards... (My school doesn?t even offer calc :/) ~Congratz to all that did get in though!! Hopefully I will make reg action!</p>

<p>Rejected: </p>

<p>SAT 2160 (Reading, 730, Math 700, Writing 730)
SAT II: I don't actually recall, but they were fairly low. Think six hundreds.
ACT: 30
GPA: 3.4
Rank: No clue.
Other tests: AP World History: 3; IB Math Studies SL: 6, IB Psych SL: 4</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Essays: I imagine were fairly good.
Teacher recs: Likely incredible, and one teacher was so proud of hers that sh showed it to me after the fact, and it was incredible.
Counselor Rec: Didn't see it, but I don't trust it. She doesn't know me (one counselor per 700 students), and the teacher she called to ask about me is one that I never got along with.
Supplementary Material: Lots of artsy goods.
Hook: Solid IB Classes for years, massive Extracurriculars, including several hours each week working with Special Ed students. Oh, and poor family, grew up in bad area.</p>

<p>Personal:</p>

<p>Location: Palmdale, California.
High School Type: Massive, overcrowded public. Also at risk of losing accreditation.
Ethnicity: White. Plain, every day white.
Applied for FinAid: I would have. No fee waiver.</p>

<p>Other:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Cross country, Track, Chess Club, Saddle-Up, Tutoring at elementary schools, etc.
Awards: None. At least, none that I remember; if I don't remember, they were unimportant.</p>

<p>I think it was probably my interview and GPA that sealed the deal. I had no clue what I was doing in there.
Of course, applying to dream schools on long shots is a good way to get rejections, so I'm not surprised or worried.
I've got a school that'll probably take me. The only problem is that it's in Oklahoma. And Oklahoma is in the Midwest. Away from nice things like oceans and massive centers of population.</p>

<p>*Deferred!!!!!! =D *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2050 680 CR 720 M 650 W
[</em>]SAT II: 720 Bio M 700 Chem 610 Math II (because im THAT good =P )
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: no idea...probably around 3.3 unweighted
[<em>]Rank: 47/~700
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Bio, Psych 5's, English Lang and US Hist 3's, this year Chem, Physics C, Statistics, Computer Science A, English Lit, and Calculus BC which was self study
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: EC short answer was about being a competitive lifeguard, department short answer was bland, my long essay was about how me getting sick sophomore/junior year really made me grow up, and I wrote an optional essay on my passion for helping people and how I'd be a good match for MIT...overall i liked them
[</em>]Teacher Recs: one from my calculus teacher and my AP Psych teacher, no idea how they were
[<em>]Counselor Rec: again, waived my rights, but she seemed to like me
[</em>]Supplementary Material: My optional essay and a recommendation from the doctors who treated me for the past two years...no idea how that came out
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): i was the only applicant missing a section of their intestine?? ;-D [/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Jersey
[<em>]High School Type: Ginormus!
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: male last time i checked
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Yes[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Competitive Lifeguard, Volunteer First Aid Squad, Varsity Soccer, Volunteer at Hospital, Science League
[</em>]Awards: Lifeguard Competition Team 1st in region, 3rd in nation, individually ranked 9th in the nation, MVL and a few record times, AP Scholar, Varsity Letter 9-10th
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Wow, I'm absolutely ecstatic!!!!! I was ready to get rejected but this was wayyy more than I could've asked for!! For everyone accepted; congratulations! You guys are really the cream of the crop, and don't allow any bitter individual take this moment away from you!Hopefully you feel the effort you put forth for the past 17-18 years paid off today! GO CRAZY!!! YOUR IN AT MIT!!! For all of us deferred and not offered admission, don't let this get you down. In retrospect, although many of us have been dreaming of this for a LONG time, relative to everything else in the world, this is almost trivial. Having friends, family, and excellent health are all much higher on my list of priorities than an acceptance to MIT. It stings, but I firmly believe that this will contribute to my life in a positive way, whatever that may be. On that end, it was awesome meeting everyone on here and I hope all of you can find happiness in whatever you choose to pursue next. At least I wont be doing any backflips today! Haha! [/ul]</p>

<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2350
[</em>]SAT II:800,800,780
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA:3.95
[<em>]Rank:
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):136.5 AMC 12, 7 AIME, 8 USAMO
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:Uh, decent?
[</em>]Teacher Recs:Good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Dont know
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): [/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:Midwest
[<em>]High School Type:large
[</em>]Ethnicity:Asian
[<em>]Gender:Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:Research
[</em>]Awards:USAMO, Siemens Regional Finalist, others
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:I guess I could've done better on the USAMO or Siemens??[/ul]</p>

<p>there have been no incidents at MIT when they take you and they uploaded your decision wrong or something right? I got in...stats later. I'm spontaneously driving up to cambridge right now to buy a sweatshirt.</p>

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT II: Math Level 2 790, Chemistry 720, U.S. History 770
[</em>]ACT: 35
[<em>]GPA: 4.0 UW
[</em>]Rank: 1/~430
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Chem 5, AP U.S. History 5, AP Calc BC 5, AP Physics B 4, AP English Lang 4
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: I really liked them<br>
[<em>]Teacher Recs: should be awesome (didn't see)
[</em>]Counselor Rec: should be great (didn't see)
[<em>]Supplementary Material: scientific research abstract
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none?[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: yes[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper, Varsity Tennis Captain, Science Olympiad Captain, Flute (area symphony orchestra, all-state band), Volunteer @ science center
[</em>]Awards: Sigma Xi Scientific Society Interdisciplinary Research Award, Sigma Xi Associate Member, National Merit Semifinalist, Science Olympiad 1st places, some others
[li]Misc: I do post-secondary at our state university and I attended M.I.T. WTP this past summer. [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>OMG!!!! I'm so excited!! :) :) I can't believe it! </p>

<p>Good luck to all the deferred, I've heard that it's harder to get into M.I.T. early than regular, so all of you should have a very good shot in the regular pool!!!!</p>

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: N/A
[</em>]SAT II: 2350
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 4.0/4.0
[<em>]Rank: 1/175
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Lang-4, Bio-5
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Not So Good...I think I came off a bit arrogant although that's not me at all. My RD essays are absolutely amazing though, I won UMICH's 'best essay scholarship' with one of them which is impressive considering there are 20k applicants. Very good sign as I enter RD decisions. But MIT is just so good!
[</em>]Teacher Recs: T1: Best Student in 30 years, I planned her AP curriculum for her. T2: I would say good to above average.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Who knows? She likes me because I'm a good student and respectful, but she is extremely inexperienced in elite colleges. We haven't sent anyone in maybe 20 years to a top 10 school.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Extra Essay-better but not great
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I was a DIV I recruited football player, but it really didn't come up in my application at all. That's one of the reasons that I like MIT so much, the laid back DIV III atmosphere
[</em>]Interview: I interviewed with the president of the MIT alumni association for the entire united states and he liked me a lot because I'm quite personable but also made the comment that he's seen a lot of unique individuals at MIT, but I'd certainly be the most unique that's he's ever seen admitted. (I'm not really peculiar looking but rather my interests are so diverse that you would never think they'd go together).
[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Detroit MI
[</em>]High School Type: Religious (Lutheran)
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Yes Y/N[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: I forgot exactly what I put on my application but here's a list: 4 year varsity track and 3 year captain, 3 year varsity football, Powerlifting, Founding member of Spanish and Key Clubs, Short Trading, and I have my own eBay business with over $300k in sales (only 125k claimed on app though). I started working 40 hrs a week during the summer at 14 and 20 during the school year before starting up my eBay business. My experience is extensive.
[<em>]Awards: State powerlifting champion, state stock trading champion, some regional science oympiad 1sts, um free classes at my community through my high school career, 10th at the Cleveland Nike HS football combine (HUGE!)
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'd just say that if you spend your entire high school career obsessed with a great college than it is inevitable that your individuality will be crushed. You will become so obsessed with grades, summer programs, and scores that you will no longer be unique and therefore stand out in the applicant pool. I never even considered going to an elite school until maybe 8 months ago after I got my ACT back w/ no test prep. Looking at me, you would never think that kid is an MIT applicant (state powerlifting champion from Detroit). But my individuality is what really set me apart. I don't want to stereotype here, but I think of some kids that I know who spend their lives obsessed with college prestige, studying, test prepping, and doing the <em>right</em> ECs, that they don't stand a chance standing out in the applicant pool. In short, If you have the academic potential than pursue whatever you enjoy. If you don't, than don't kill yourself to get into these schools. God has a station for you in life...find it [/ul]</p>

<p>I would also really like to say that we should all thank the admission's people for doing such a great job. For kids like me, who have never known anyone at an elite school, MIT does an amazing job of turning a school full of crazy smart math and science kids into a HUMAN place. What I mean by that is that they are so good at setting up the blogs etc that MIT is not just some elite school but a place full of really cool people</p>

<p>ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!!!
Way too excited to post now.
Congrats to all the others accepted; everyone else, keep your chins up.</p>

<p>Deferred</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: bad..... see ACT
[</em>]SAT II: MATH2 : 800, Chem 800
[<em>]ACT: C:33
[</em>]GPA: 3.96 (Unweighed)
[<em>]Rank: no ranking..
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Calc BC , Chem, Stats (5)
4x AIME, AMC 10: 128, AMC 12: 117, AIME : only 4
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I think it was very me
[</em>]Teacher Recs: math teacher loved me and writes very good recs, lit should be generically good. and one from robotics coach
[<em>]Counselor Rec: normal ish.. big school
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Extra letter of Rec.art portfolio and the optional essay...
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): ehh... girl?[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Bay Area
[<em>]High School Type: >1800
[</em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>]Gender: F
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: no[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: FIRST Robotics co-prez, math club secratary (our math team is ranked pretty high) JETS, Aikido, art
[</em>]Awards: math, robotics jets stuff
[<em>]Summer: taught little kids robotics , summer school, NASA robotics course, self-studied stuff
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: sigh....[/ul]</p>

<p>should i send in a letter of how much i want to go with what i've created and up dates on what i've been doing like grants, organizing AMC for 800 people.. etc.</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>SAT1 2350
SAT2, Math levelII 800, Biology 800, Chemistry 800
GPA 4.0/4.0 no weighting</p>

<p>USACO Gold
USAPO semi-finalist
USABO semi-finalist
Siemens AP Award (notified already, will announce soon)
National AP scholar (9 APs all 5)
Nationa Merit Semi-finalist</p>

<p>Deferred.</p>

<p>I expected this, but that doesn't make it any easier.</p>

<p>RedRemote,
CONGRATS. What a great resume! My younger S plays football (not at your level) but would like to do D-III someplace selective. He also has a wide-ranging and unusual resume. I just showed him your post for some inspiration!</p>

<p>Such an impressive bunch of folks!</p>

<p>StupidKid (NOT), I am stunned. It surely wasn't Siemens or USAMO that kept you out. If you want MIT, work on another essay, send in a mentor rec, or something -- something that will tip you over the edge.</p>

<p>deferred =/ guess i have a couple of RD apps to work on now</p>

<p>sorry, ignore this post.</p>