<p>ACCEPTED</p>
<p>If anyone wants to see my app (without personal info) please PM me.
I’m doing this to help upcoming seniors. Hope it will be helpful to some.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: (M,R,W) = (800,640,700)
[</em>]SAT II: Math2 - 800, Chem - 770
[<em>]GPA: ~90%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Made USAMO last year
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: About how much I love math, some of my ECs, and a trip to France
[</em>]Recs: Three teachers who like me
[<em>]Summer Activities: Mathcamp!!!
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): See below
[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[<em>]High School Type: Private
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Math Club + some other math, some bio research, youth group, karate
[<em>]Awards: Chem Olympiad, science fair awards, TopCoder ranking, math things (nothing too major)
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: See below.</p>
<p>[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I mostly wanted to post this, after reading through past lists on CC, to show that you don’t need really great scores and lots of APs to get in… just do things you enjoy doing, and then tell them about it on your app!</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: N/A
[</em>]SAT II: Physics - 720, Math II - 770
[<em>]ACT: 32 (E: 34 M:34 R: 35 S: 26)
[</em>]GPA: 4.00 UW, 4.82 W
[<em>]Rank: 1/670 UW, 1/670 W
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Computer Science A, Chemistry (3), Physics B (3), Calculus BC (3), World History (4), US History (5), English Language and Composition (5), US Government & Politics (5), European History, Physics C, Chinese, English Literature and Composition [/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Very unique and original I thought. Many grammatical, punctuation, etc errors though. Put short, content = good, but structure = bad
[</em>]Recs: I’m assuming one was bad, one was okay, and one was good.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: N/A
[</em>]Summer Activities: Elite 300 Soccer Camp (could’ve listed some more great activities but did not due to my haste)
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Colorado
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian (Korean)
[<em>]Gender: Male[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Soccer, DDR, Tutor, Piano, Web Page Design
[<em>]Awards: Highest GPA in school since junior year, 3 year academic letter, 3 year honor roll, AP Scholar with Distinction.
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I am very surprised to get deferred. I worked on my apps last minute (at a hotel) and found SO MANY mistakes after I submitted my app. Plus, my test scores are extremely mediocre for the “typical Asian for MIT” standards. I think it was the content of my essays that had me put up into second consideration plus the fact I arguably took the most rigorous high school course than my senior classmates.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Congratulations to those who managed to get accepted! You’ve achieved quite a feat. Those who got rejected/deferred, let’s give it our best to the end.[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:
[</em>]SAT II: 2040, CR 740, M 660, W 640
[<em>]ACT: 31
[</em>]GPA: UW 3.81 W 4.0
[<em>]Rank: 15/662
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APUSH 5, AP Phys B 3, AP Stat 4, AP Bio 5, AP World 5, AP English Lang. 5 [/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: My personality definetly shined through, I wrote about everything from my korean drama addiction to my mother’s disablities.
[</em>]Recs:AAAAAHMAYZING! I seriously cried when I read them… my counselor calls me her daughter and I’m my APUSH teacher’s favorite kid ever 
[<em>]Supplementary Material: MITES recs
[</em>]Summer Activities: MITES '09! SMU engineering camp & dual credit classes.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Immigrant, MITES '09, 1st generation college student, head of household (single disabled mom), & URM (both religiously and ethnically) [/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: TX
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: African (black)
[<em>]Gender: F [/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Ac Dec team captain, NHS VP, Mu Alpha Theta Pres., & Religious Youth
Group Board Member & co-founder
[<em>]Awards:
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: still super shocked I got in D:
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>
<p>My friend’s stats:
Deffered
SAT: 1880 (600 R 660 M 620W)
SAT 2: Chem 780 Bio: 750
GPA: 93 UW
Rank: 21/685
EC: Intel competition, Science olympiads, math team(captian), national honor society, french honor society.
Awards: Intel Semifinalist, AP Scholar, NYS Scholarship of Excellence
Personal:
Gender: M
Ethnicity: Asian!!!
Location: NY
I’m pretty sure Intel saved him from being flat out rejected!</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300 (800R 800M 700W)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2-C:800 Physics:800
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 3.92 UW
[<em>]Rank: Top 2%, class size 600
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): USAMO 2x, a lot of AP 5’s and 4’s (mostly 5’s), full IB Diploma candidate [/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: talked about a project in an engineering class and how I developed an interest in math over the years.
[</em>]Recs: from a math teacher, an English teacher, and my ARML team coach. They were all very good.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: n/a
[</em>]Summer Activities: math research, volunteering
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): multiple things I guess :)[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: CA
[<em>]High School Type: VERY competitive public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male [/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Math Club, Science Bowl, ARML, community service
[<em>]Awards: USAPhO semis, Siemens semis, ARML team high scorer, National AP Scholar
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I got it through to them (esp. in my interview) how I came to like math on my own, without being pushed by Asian parents/etc.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Just do what you love and love what you do. You can’t go wrong with that. :)[/ul]</p>
<p>Holy crap!!
How are these people get deffered. What do you need to get in???
I think there is no difference in getting a 2150 or a 2300 on the SAT, people from both groups are getting deffered.
MIT says, they want someone who shows the “Match between you and MIT”. The problem is most of the people here show good mathces, why are they not getting accepted???</p>
<p>…because they don’t show the match? plus it’s extremely competitive and they want diversity.</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 740/730/680
[</em>]SAT II: Math IIC - 730 | Chemistry - 800 | Literature - 710
[<em>]ACT: Not Taken
[</em>]GPA: Don’t know exactly. Straight A’s through high school; IB Diploma Candidate w/a couple AP thrown in, so I have a lot of weighted classes
[<em>]Rank: 1/632
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB) (“?” means to be taken this spring): AP –> World History (10th grade) - 3; AP Calculus BC (12th grade) - ? | IB –> Mathematics SL - 5; Economics SL - 5; Chemistry HL - ?; Latin SL - ?; History of the Americas HL - ?; English HL - ? [/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Only school I applied EA to, so essays weren’t super developed. I did go through a few drafts, so they turned out alright. When application period is over, I’ll write what a little about my topics (can’t risk stolen ideas :P)
[</em>]Recs: Counselor - Not close to him, but he loves me | English - ToK and English HL2 teacher, also loves me. Sadly, I think he might have used the general rec letter he made for me instead of MIT’s questions; I don’t know how much that matters. | Math - Mathletes coach for four years…
[<em>]Supplementary Material: again, will reveal when app period is over
[</em>]Summer Activities: Internship; volunteering; extended essay research
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nothing too special[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Southern California
[<em>]High School Type: Public; California Distinguished School (like that matters)
[</em>]Ethnicity: White (noooooooo!)
[<em>]Gender: Male (nooooooooooooo!)[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Varsity Wrestling; 3 year Varsity Mathlete; Latin Club; etc. other clubs
[<em>]Awards: National Latin Exam Medals (x3); Kiwanis Youth of the Month (local); Wrestling Letter and Ironman award; Mathletes captain and MVP
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Not nearly good enough to get in EA (or at all, for that matter), not quite bad enough to be rejected
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: To any high school freshmen - Figure out what you want to do and pursue it consistently through all of your high school career. Start studying for the SAT a year ahead of time (just start with a couple questions and vocab words a day). | To anyone still applying for fall 2010 - Report your SAT test scores 100 points lower than actual. It will look like you are trying to make everyone feel better about themselves. MIT likes that.[/ul]</p>
<p>Hi all, if you’ve got any questions just lemme know. I’d be happy to answer questions to the best of my abilities.</p>
<p>Keep on reading the MIT blogs for what to look out for in the future. </p>
<p>To the accepted: congrats! I don’t know if this is your frist choice or not, but certainly you’ve made an impression and hopefully you will be able to experience MIT during cpw or the following fall.</p>
<p>Deferred: You’re still in the running, so do not worry. If MIT is your first choice, just make sure you maintain your grades and prove that you still want it. You’re now in a bigger pool of applicants, but that doesn’t mean it’s any harder or easier to get in.</p>
<p>Rejected: Take a deep breath and compose yourself. I was rejected from my first choice also (Stanford) but I took it in stride and set my mind to looking at other colleges. Eventually you will find a college that you will like, and eventually come to love. You’ve got a big life ahead of you and one rejection will not chance a thing.</p>
<p>check this out here for info: [MIT</a> Admissions: Meet The Bloggers](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/blogs.shtml]MIT”>Blogs | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>want something more personal, you can check out my own blog here: [My</a> blog](<a href=“http://jeffreylin.■■■■■■■■■■%5DMy”>http://jeffreylin.■■■■■■■■■■)</p>
<p>I think MIT dosen’t want the perfect students. They would rather have students who have done really well(not perfect or close to perfect) and who have embraced failure. Kids with 2300+ and national awards are getting deffered and rejected.
I feel MIt would rather want the kid who is passionate about one thing, no matter how small it may be, than a super genius with crazy stats and awards!</p>
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<p>I don’t know about that. I hate to say it, but your logic seems ridiculously counter intuitive.</p>
<p>Notice all the Hispanics and Blacks got in with mediocre stats…</p>
<p>tutydau - Some of of them went to MITES (which is basically like a ticket to MIT before you even apply) … and not all Hispanics got in. I didn’t.</p>
<p>Doesn’t MITES have a lower acceptance rate than MIT Freshman Admissions?</p>
<p>Wow MIT didn’t accept a kid with a 2400…</p>
<p>steelersngators,
2400 means nothing to me. A high AMC score probably would mean more for MIT admission. I took it once, got 2230, and realized it was the most boring 5 hours of my life ever. Few with 2400 SAT could match my list of international/national awards and chains of 5’s on AP’s. Then again, that doesn’t mean that I’m smart either. A girl in my class with a ~2150 SAT score is much smarter than me. She spends half the time I spend on homework and still had a significantly higher GPA than me last quarter. She’s also quite witty while I’m really dull and boring. However, she did not apply to the really prestigious schools and her application probably wouldn’t have looked very good due to the lack of high level awards.</p>
<p>Getting a high SAT score means that you are good at taking the SAT. Getting into a good college means that you are good at college applications. I didn’t look on CC at all before I submitted my applications. I didn’t know what I was doing, but apparently I was talented at it. In the end, all that matters are your goals and how much effort are you willing to put into them.</p>
<p>I got deferred with a 36 and a couple 800 subject tests. </p>
<p>But I am not bitter at all! MIT knows who they’re looking for and perhaps MIT is not for me!</p>
<p>grouptheory is right-- test scores aren’t a big deal.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2020
[</em>]SAT II: 700 Math II, 650 Literature, 620 Chemistry (lol)
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 4.98/5.0
[<em>]Rank: 6/298
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): IB - 7 on SL Math, 6 on SL Spanish
[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: unique and original (at least i think)
[</em>]Recs: not sure - my teachers don’t let us read them
[<em>]Supplementary Material: none
[</em>]Summer Activities: Volleyball, Academic camps, volunteering
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): unique childhood???
[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Missouri
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Volleyball, Debate, Broadcast Journalism, Math Club, Volunteering
[<em>]Awards: National awards in broadcast journalism
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I like to think my application brings something new to the table other than just test scores and grades
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: That test scores don’t make or break your application. I think that if you have strong enough credentials and essays, you can easily make up for a couple defects in your applications. Colleges won’t just automatically reject you if you don’t have a 2400 or 36. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>That was pretty tactless. There are many admitted students with similar statistics. Those test scores give little reason to believe that someone is ■■■■■■■■ or, for that matter, underqualified. The MIT admissions office is very clear about that.</p>
<p>It’s really mean spirited to insult someone over something so petty.</p>