Official MIT Class of 2012 Regular Action Decisions Thread

<p>Rejected ------</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=red][ b]Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT:2270 (720 CR 760 M 790 W)
[ *]SAT II:800 Math 2c, 760 US, 720 Chem
[ *]ACT:N/A
[ *]GPA: 4.4 w, 3.93 UW
[ *]Rank: School Doesn't but top 3%
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Bio-4, Ap Chem-5, AP stat- 5 AP us- 4, AP euro-5 taking five more this year (Calc BC, Lit, Spanish lang, Gov, Physics C)</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: great, about scuba diving haha
[ *]Teacher Recs:strong
[ *]Counselor Rec: strong
[ *]Supplementary Material: none
[ *]Interview: lasted like two and a half hours
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Being Caucasian from California really helps haha</p>

<p>[ *]Location:CA
[ *]High School Type:public
[ *]Ethnicity:white
[ *]Gender: male
[ *]Extracurriculars:Eagle Scout, Various Clubs with leadership, COSMOS and UCSD, lots of volunteer work, trombone player, swimming, nothing special.
[ *]Awards:Eagle Scout, Valedictorian, AP Scholar with distinction.</p>

<p>[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:applied on a whim, I wasn't expecting much so its fine. I also didn't write the optional effort, too much work. plus i got into wesleyan yesterday so im happy.
Congrats to all who got in!!</p>

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2350 (780M, 800W, 770CR)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Chem, 780 Math 2 (and 770 French and 740 Bio M)
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.72 W
[<em>]Rank: 3/316
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC and AIME, and 6 AP tests (5 5s and 1 4 in French Language)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Decent?
[</em>]Teacher Recs: GREAT. Both best in career.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Pretty good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: A letter after my deferral, and an article about me from the newspaper.
[<em>]Interview: Not bad... but not spectacular.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Don’t got one. [/ul]
Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: NJ
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Female [/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: A lot. Including leadership and community service. I don’t feel like summarizing.
[</em>]Awards: Also a lot... one national award, a whole bunch of state awards, and some other stuff. Nothing really too major.<br>
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Deferred EA AND I GOT IN!!!! I'M SO FRIGGIN EXCITED I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M GONNNA DO NOW THIS MAKES MY LIFE!!</p>

<p>rejected
:(</p>

<p>Guys, you have to delete the spaces in the square brackets for the formatting to show up correctly. :)</p>

<p>I got waitlisted, o well.</p>

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2240 (M: 780, R: 720, W: 740)
[</em>]SAT II: Math II: 800, Chem: 780, Physics: 770
[<em>]ACT: 35 (W: 34, M:36, R: 34, S: 36)
[</em>]GPA: UW 4.0, W: 4.911
[<em>]Rank: 1/350 both UW and W
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC:101ish, 5 APs with 5s, taking both Physics C, AP CS AB, and AP Bio this year
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: alright
[</em>]Teacher Recs: should be good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: should be good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Scholarship apps (got research scholars and biomedical summer)
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): research [/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: MI
[<em>]High School Type:semi-competitive. Selects top applicants from across the county
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Extracurriculars: Research, Captain of tennis team, Editor in chief of literary magazine, piano for 7 years, computer programming team, coach for a FIRST lego mindstorms middle school team (counts as volunteer), volunteer at hospital, started a tutoring program
[</em>]Awards: Siemens semifinalist
AP Scholar with Distinction
NM finalist
Caltech Signature Award
won tennis state championship as a team last year, fourth place this year
multiple AIME qualifier, top 202 in Michigan Math Prize Competition (14000 take it)
USACO silver division, ACSL awards
many regional, local awards in math/science
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:I was deferred, but i got in. I cannot believe it! This is amazing. See you all at CPW [/ul]</p>

<p>Didnt get through :(</p>

<p>Waitlisted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2340 (800M, 800CR, 740W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Bio E, 800 Math 2, 800 Lit, 800 USH, 800 Physics
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.963 W, 4.0 UW
[<em>]Rank: 1/~300
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AIME 5/4, AMC12 116/115.5/120, 5 AP's (4x 5, 1x 4)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Well written!
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Excellent!
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Excellent!
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Interview: Decent, but not spectacular.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: PA
[</em>]High School Type: public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Science Olympiad (Captain), Academic Competition Team (Varsity Captain), Math Team (Captain), Mock Trial (Co-captain/attorney), Literary Magazine (Editor), Varsity Swimming, Volunteering
[</em>]Awards: Science Olympiad, USAPhO Semifinalist, USABO Semifinalist, AIME, various math and science, and youth-related, etc.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I was actually pretty confident that I would get in, but I guess it was some premature speculation. Good luck for everyone who's waiting for theirs =) [/ul]</p>

<p>rejected :(</p>

<p>accepted. screw them for deferring me EA. I'm going to stanford.</p>

<p>Holy Crap! I'm Asian and I was accepted!!</p>

<p>waitlisted</p>

<p>how many people go on the waitlist?</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2130 800R 740M 590W
[</em>]SAT II: 730Math2 710Chem
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.3W 3.9UW
[<em>]Rank: unknown
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Euro Hist:3, 7AP tests this year.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: eh. they were not as good as my chicago ones.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: how would i know?
[<em>]Counselor Rec: how would i know?
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none sent
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nope
[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Fl
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White as can get.
[<em>]Gender M
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y
[<em>]Extracurriculars: All county Academic team, founded hs physics club, boy scouts, etc etc.
[</em>]Awards: a few general scholarships.
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Was what i expected :) Hopefully chicago will admit meh!</p>

<p>Rejected. I expected it, though.</p>

<p>lol waitlisted</p>

<p>unless i get accepted to stanford, or by some luck, to MIT through the waitlist, i'll end up at caltech.</p>

<p>o well; at least the wait is over, sort of</p>

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2350
[</em>]SAT II:2400
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA:3.95
[<em>]Rank:
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):136.5 AMC12, 140.5 AMC10, 8 USAMO, 9 AP's
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:crap
[</em>]Teacher Recs:good
[<em>]Counselor Rec:good
[</em>]Supplementary Material:research paper
[<em>]Interview: ok
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location:
[</em>]High School Type: public
[<em>]Ethnicity:azn
[</em>]Gender: m
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:
[</em>]Awards:siemens regional finalist, usamo qual, usnco qual, intel sts semi
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:going to stanford since they have better financial aid and better weather. and im not happy that mit deferred me early[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 780M 790R 800W
[</em>]SAT II: Math2c - 800, Phys - 800
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.8-4.9ish
[<em>]Rank: Top 1% / 519
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10 - 116, AMC12 - 112.5, AIME - 4. AP: Euro-5 US-5 BC-5 CompsciA-5 CompsciAB-5 Chem-5 Eng-4 French-3. Full IB: IB Phys-6 Chem-6 French-5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: so-so, I'm not that great of a writer :/
[</em>]Teacher Recs: no idea, I would assume just average
[<em>]Counselor Rec: should have been above average
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None
[<em>]Interview: Meh, average.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): A weak legacy (my dad was visiting scientist for 20 months there) I doubt it matters at all.[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: California
[</em>]High School Type: Very good. I think top 20-40 in nation or something.
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian >_<
[</em>]Gender: M[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Math Club, ARML, Research, Religious Activities
[</em>]Awards: Nothing big
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I wish I focused more on EC's since my freshmen year... I never knew it was such an important thing :/ Oh well. Congrats to everyone who got in :) I guess I'll be ending up at Caltech unless Stanford/Princeton/Harvard accepts me o.O.[/ul]</p>

<p>Accepted!!!!</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 2280 (780M, 790W, 710CR)
* SAT II: 780 Chem, 800 Math 2 (and 790 US History)
* ACT: NA
* GPA: 3.89 weighted
* Rank: NA, top 10%
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 3 5's on APs
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<p>Subjective</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: really good
* Teacher Recs: dont know, decent
* Counselor Rec: Pretty good
* Supplementary Material: my art teacher letter
* Interview: amazing
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): NONE, girl?
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<p>Personal</p>

<pre><code>* Location: Northern VA
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Female
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<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: art, martial arts, volunteer, internships, website designer
* Awards: alot of art awards and martial arts awards, not very prestigious tho
* Advice? Commiserations? SOOOO HAPPY RIGHT NOWW!!!! GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE
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