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<p>This does not sound right - can you double check and clarify this statement? Are you saying that all students who you “have no academic concerns” about received this email? That’s probably way too many emails, and it doesn’t sound like many applicants received it. Clearly lots of applicants have high test scores and grades and did not receive a message, so what was the criteria for sending the email? Thanks.</p>
<p>does surely sound right.
what is wrong with it?</p>
<p>I agree with posts #19, 20, and 21. I apologize Chris, but your statement is unclear. Is punctuation missing?</p>
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<p>I think this means cases like where the coursework does not match up with the expected preparation - for example, students who will not have had calculus or physics by the end of this year.</p>
<p>Chris definitely did not miss any punctuation. I think what Chris is saying is probably this:</p>
<p>When you take the SATs, you have the option of checking a little box that says something about sharing your scores with colleges. If you check it and then get a good score, you will then get a ridiculous amount of mail from colleges asking you to apply. MIT is one of those colleges.</p>
<p>You probably will not be getting mail or email because of your good grades, because MIT does not have easy access to everyone’s grades until they apply. You probably will be getting mail or email because of exams you take through collegeboard (if you checked that box), because that information is sent out to colleges in bulk, or because of big enough competitions with a small enough amount of winners that typing them all in is not much of a hassle.</p>
<p>Why does MIT do this? To encourage students who have a better-than-average chance of getting in to apply. Does this guarantee that you’ll get in? No way. I got a bunch of these from Harvard and I did not get into Harvard.</p>
<p>^umm well the people who posted wrote about gettin the mails for INTEL … Is that the same thing what you r tryin to say ??</p>
<p>Intel would be one of those big competitions with a small number of winners.</p>
<p>lidusha, as usual, is correct. </p>
<p>i know nothing about intel letters. it’s possible we sent them.</p>
<p>Here is the email subject to Intel STS winners from MIT</p>
<p>Kudos from the MIT Admissions Office</p>
<p>Yes, we were talking about letters from Intel, and specifically concerning the Intel Science Talent Search 2012.</p>
<p>^ Aren’t you guys supposed to be at DC right now??</p>
<p>I only got to the semi-finalist level… Good luck to any finalists on here though!!!</p>
<p>I am Rejected!!!Lol</p>
<p>Waitlisted :|</p>
<p>aaaaaand rejected. Apparently STS semis didn’t help that much.</p>
<p>Rejected v.v</p>
<p>Is there anyone who was accepted?</p>
<p>reject!! Woooohooooo!!</p>
<p>I think many of us were rejected… LOL</p>
<p>HOLY COW - ACCEPTED!
I don’t even know what to do asdjlfiajefalsfijeajfleifsj just cried a little, ran around the house, and called family/friends.</p>