Official MIT Class of 2012 Regular Action Decisions Thread

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<p>^ are you a Westwood student :O</p>

<p>Okay guys. I am living proof that it IS possible to get into MIT with low SAT scores.</p>

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 690 CR, 720 M, 800 W
[</em>]SAT II: 710 Chinese, 700 Biology E, 640 Math II, 650 Physics
[<em>]ACT: didn't take
[</em>]GPA: 5.35/6.00 W, 4.00 UW
[<em>]Rank: 4/497
[</em>]Other Tests: AP WHist 4, AP English III 5, AP French IV Language 2 (sick on test day), will be taking this year:
AP Physics C, English IV Lit, Macroeconomics, US Government, Calculus AB, Biology, French V Lit, AP CompSci A
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: one about how I came to love Physics, another about my different personalities; I'm a seasoned essayist so I'm fairly confident these were nice.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: extremely excellent - my Economics teacher gave me highest marks on the questionnaire, my Biology teacher has been my science fair mentor for four years
[<em>]Counselor Rec: no idea, I didn't get to see, I don't think it was that good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none at all
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Science fair all four years, attended State Scifair (Exxonmobil TSEF) all four years (placed twice), Intel ISEF Finalist this year (if there's any of you out there, see you in Atlanta!)[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: central Texas
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian-American
[<em>]Gender: Female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: yes[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: I run an international singing organization, dance, theatre, French club, NHS, Key Club, some other stuff I don't remember
[</em>]Awards: just the science fair ones:
- Behavioral & Social Sciences Regionals 2005 - 2nd place
- Behavioral & Social Sciences State 2005 - participant
- Microbiology Regionals 2006 - 1st place + Navy award of excellence
- Microbiology State 2006 - 3rd place
- Microbiology Regionals 2007 - 2nd place
- Microbiology State 2007 - honorable mention
- Behavioral & Social Sciences Regionals 2008 - 1st place, American Psychological Association award, Best of Fair
- thus, Intel ISEF Finalist 2008 =)
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/li]My mother is kind of against me going because of financial issues. I've already been accepted to Dean Scholar's and Turing Scholars at University of Texas Austin (Natural Sciences and computer Sciences honors, respectively). It's cheaper to stay at home, and I already have so much going for me here. I want to go to MIT for grad school for sure. How is the admission at MIT for grad school? What are chances that undergrad students can stay there for another four years?</p>

<p>But why am I complaining, seriously.
OH MY GOD. I TOTALLY DID NOT EXPECT THIS. My SAT II's sucked. My AP's sucked. My ECs sucked. The ONLY thing I really had going for me was all my science research.</p>

<p>This is proof that dreams can come true.
It also makes me feel bad to talk to friends who weren't accepted, so I'm kind of keeping low profile about this =/[/ul]</p>

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<p>Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2220 (740 M, 800 W, 680 CR), 2330 (800 M, 790 CR, 740 W) = Superscore: 2390
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math Lvl 2, 770 US Hist, 740 Physics, 720 Chem
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 3.85
[<em>]Rank: 5 out of 249
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 8 APs - Five 5s, Three 4s
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Spent a lot of time on them - I thought they were pretty good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Sent in college transcript with over 100 credits of classes taken
[<em>]Interview: Not bad
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): [/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: MN
[</em>]High School Type: Public - not competitive
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: Male [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Decent (Speech, Math League, Academic Decathlon, NHS, LINK Crew, Hospital volunteer...)
[</em>]Awards: Lots of regional awards, few state awards, National AP Scholar
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul][/li]I think the ECs are what hurt me - not enough leadership. MIT was my #1 school, but life goes on. Congratz to all accepted!</p>

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<p>No, vivi, i'm not.</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2230 (780 V 750 M 700 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 740 Math IIc, 700 Physics, 800 Spanish
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: GPA: 3.75, a bit misleading because I had a terrible frosh year, and basically a 4.0 from end of soph year on.
[<em>]Rank: School doesn't
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
AP Music Theory 3
AP Physics B 5 (self-studied)
AP Gov 5
AP Spanish Lit 5
AP BC Calc
AP Physics C
AP Lit
AP Chem (self-study)
(my school has a limit of 3 APs per year, and you can't take any before junior year, so that's why I don't have too many)
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[<em>]Essays: I liked them, they were kind of random, about things like how I like riding my bike and physicists are like kids making snowballs :P
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Great I think, I didn't actually see them but when I got deferred one of my teachers offered to call them up and brag about me and the other one told me they were wrong. I'm not too upset because I ended up getting in :D
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good, I seem to amuse him for some reason.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: I sent in a newspaper clipping about my company, my research abstract from over this summer, information on my tutorials.
[<em>]Interview: Went okay.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I've taken a lot of initiative on my own, self-studied exams, taken 11 tris of 'tutorials' which are self-study classes in technology, physics, and spanish, started my own microcontroller company, as well as design web page design contracts independently. I'm also venezuelan which makes me a baller.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Addison, TX
[</em>]High School Type: Private
[<em>]Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>]Gender: Female [/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:
Sci Oly Captain
Amnesty
Web Page design both in and out of school
Started microcontroller company, do tech & web page design
Founding member of Shakespeare club
Research at HSHSP over the summer (best program ever)
Debate
[</em>]Awards: Tech Student of the Year, Mu Alfa Theta, Language Honor Society, National Hispanic Scholar, French National Concours Medalist, State qualifier for debate soph & junior year
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul][/li]AHHHHHH I AM SO EXCITED!!!! *spasm :P See you guys at CPW!!!!!
I actually have kind of a funny story about how I got my acceptance. I was at barnes & noble with a friend to check it, but I couldn't get wireless, so I was like...grar...must check decision...so I went to the apple store a couple of streets over and checked on one of the store laptops. So I open up the decision and I start like crying and laughing histerically simultaenously, and I was just like "wow....I JUST GOT INTO MIT...wow..." and one of the random apple geniuses was standing nearby, and he was like, "MIT! wow congrats! that's a first!" referring to someone checking their decision at the apple store. So the first person to congratulate me was an apple genius :D</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: Didn't take
[</em>]SAT II: Math IIC: 760; Physics: 720
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 3.8/3.9 UW
[<em>]Rank: top 10 I think
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP's are all 4's and 5's
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Very good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Should have been very good; didn't see
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Same as teacher recs
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Sent a list of several of my research abstracts
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): lots and lots of research experience
[/ul]Personal[ul][</em>]Location: West Coast
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: ORM
[<em>]Gender: M
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Lots of research, since 9th grade, mostly independent (without a mentor); also a lot of community involvement
[</em>]Awards: lots of research, a few of the bigger awards include isef multiple times, siemens regional finalist, intel sts semifinalist, and many more
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: really happy and excited. hope to see you guys at cpw [/ul]</p>

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<p>Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300 (800M 750CR 750W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math2 800 Chemistry 800 Biology 800 French
[<em>]ACT: None
[</em>]GPA: 4.6/4.0
[<em>]Rank: School doesn't rank.
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
5s on AP Calc BC, Comp Sci AB, Biology, Chemistry, US History, French, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Lang + Comp, Statistics
144 on AMC10
138 on AMC12
12 on AIME
Made USAMO Twice
[li]Senior Courseload:[/li]AP English
AP Government
AP Physics
Multivariable Calculus (CC, summer)
Differential Equations (CC)
Linear Algebra (CC)
Discrete Math (CC)</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they weren't too bad
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good, I'd say.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: No Clue
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Reseach I did on bacteria.
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: California
[</em>]High School Type: Public - Competitive
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender Male
[li]Applied for Financial Aid: N[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: President of Math Club, FBLA, Science Club, Robotics, Varsity Tennis Captain
[</em>]Awards:
Quite a few math contests
FBLA National Placings since freshman year (1st twice)
National Merit
Scholar Athlete x3
Made AIME since 7th grade
USABO
USNCO
USACO
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Is there something fundamentally wrong with me?!?!?![/ul]</p>

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<p>WOAH.... hopelesslydevote... i would have admitted you if i were in admissions...</p>

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<p>I really hate to sound conceited, but I thought I was in. I'm just SO JAWO:IEHJWDA:OIJO:ASDIJASD:OSA CONFUSED right now! AS:OIDJA:SOEWO:QEIJ@QO:EQWEWE</p>

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<p>hmm there seems to be an inverse relationship between qualifications and acceptance...
i don't mean to be bitter; i'm just saying i'm suprised by some of mit's admission decisions</p>

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<p>hopelesslydevote, oh my gosh! i cry for you :( I thought MIT pretty much admitted all USAMO people</p>

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<p>Someone from my school got rejected today. For the record, this Asian male is a local math god, the dominating statistics person in the state for the past three years, a statewide computer programming contest winner, a black belt, SAT scores all above 700, 4.0 GPA unweighted, and he's not a bad writer either, so no, his essays did not ruin his chances before anyone jumps on that. He has been an AIME qualifier every year since 9th grade, and got 7 on the AIME one year. And I seriously can't see how hopelesslydevote got turned down, especially a 2-time USAMO qualifier what??? Yet I hear of people across my state, good but not incredible applicants, who happen to be racial minorities or girls, who got accepted. The past few years, every person from my school that was accepted has either been a racial minority, or a girl. This is really ridiculous.</p>

<p>MIT used to be my first choice school, but I've since lost all respect for its admissions process. I was accepted early, but there is no chance I will be attending after this latest round of affirmative action. If anyone out there can track my IP address, go ahead and give my acceptance to some wait-listed person, and hopefully, it will be someone who can get in by merit and not by racism.</p>

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<p>Hoplesslydevote, that's insane you didn't get admitted... did you apply to Caltech?</p>

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<p>waitlisted</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 670W, 740M, 750CR
* SAT II: 790 Chinese, 800 Math II, 760 chem
* ACT: 31
* GPA: 3.98
* Other Tests: 4 chem, 3 euro, 4 stat, 5 calc ab
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: moderate to good
* Teacher Recs: no idea
* Counselor Rec: no idea
* Supplementary Material: research abstract
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I'm Asian? laughs ironically.
</code></pre>

<p>Personal</p>

<pre><code>* Location: Michigan
* High School Type: public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Female
* Applied for Financial Aid: yes
</code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: started small student group, minor research, public speaking, quiz bowl, the usual
* Awards: national merit
* Advice? Commiserations?
</code></pre>

<p>Congratulations to everyone who got in! And those who didn't/got waitlisted like me, it isn't the end of the world! :)</p>

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<p>Yes, I'm in to Caltech, but MIT was my 1st choice. sigh</p>

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<p>wow hopeless, this is bs. to make you feel better, my friend who is a siemens regional finalist (top 60 in nation) was waitlisted. like ryuzaki, I have also lost respect for MIT admissions. this is crap.</p>

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<p>MIT has been sliding down the U.S. News Best College list...</p>

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<p>Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 (780 CR, 800 Math, 800 Writing)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Chem, 780 USHistory
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 Unweighted
[<em>]Rank: n/a
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 4 on Chem, 5 on Euro, Spanish, USHistory, English Language
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Average
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Music CD, research paper
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: California
[<em>]High School Type: Public, Competitive
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Violin, MUN, Science clubs, Hospital volunteering, UCI School of Medicine internship, varsity swim team
[</em>]Awards: AP Scholar w/ Distinction, National Merit Finalist, National Honor Society, Bausch & Lomb Science Award, MTAC Certificate of Merit Violin, Advanced Level
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Be born female or get a sex change. [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>A little bitter at the moment, so don't take my words too seriously; but looking through this thread, I see a lot of people who should have been admitted or at least waitlisted who were not. It seems that URM females, or just females in general, are able to get in with lower test scores while ORM males need every national science competition under the sun and near-perfect scores; in some cases that still isnt enough.</p>

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<p>
[quote]
MIT used to be my first choice school, but I've since lost all respect for its admissions process. I was accepted early, but there is no chance I will be attending after this latest round of affirmative action. If anyone out there can track my IP address, go ahead and give my acceptance to some wait-listed person, and hopefully, it will be someone who can get in by merit and not by racism.

[/quote]

totally agree. and it's not just mit. affirmative action is running wild everywhere. if only there were more people like ryuzaki who are willing to make a sacrifice to do something about it. affirmative action defeats the purpose of merit based qualifications.</p>

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<p>
[quote]
affirmative action is running wild everywhere.

[/quote]

At a techie school, however, the applicant pool is even more disproportionately white/asian males so any affirmative action that tries to produce a representative class has to be harsher than at other schools.</p>

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<p>This isn't the thread for a debate about AA. But if you come to CPW, I am sure you will be able to see that your fellow admitted students were admitted by merit. This thread is a small sample of the students who were admitted, and a highly biased sample at that.</p>