<p>15 people at your school applying to MIT?!</p>
<p>I'm the only one from my school applying to a USNWR top 40 school period!</p>
<p>I KNOW. IT'S RIDICULOUS, AND IT SCARES THE CRAP OUT OF ME.</p>
<p>wow! lucky you! best of luckkkk. so many people deserve to make it into MIT...i hate suspense.</p>
<p>whoa this is weird. how did my post make it up beforee yours when i read urs before replying??</p>
<p>omg, same! like 20-something applied early! I wanted to throw things and cry, even though I'm normally a good sport about competition. this is just too much for my poor little heart :(</p>
<p>20 people is ridiculous lol... come to my school haha... middle of no where ottawa, ontario, canada lmao... whole city like few kids apply who actually arent lazy to take SATs lol</p>
<p>so far im only one who actually applied early (cuz im US citizen)</p>
<p>Two other kids applied early from my school, and I know of at least another four are applying regular (in a class of 240). The most we've ever had apply in one year is two, and the most we've had get in is one... hopefully this year will be one for the record books because I really want all of us to get in! I really like all the kids in my grade who are applying.</p>
<p>10 ppl from my school for MIT</p>
<p>I'm the only one from my school applying =D</p>
<p>Laid back New Hampshire ftw! (And it's a class of 713...)</p>
<p>Ahhh, Arch3r25, I'm in laid back New Hampshire too, just suddenly MIT got really popular with my grade!</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that MIT doesn't compare people with others from their schools. At least not when there isn't a large number of applicants.</p>
<p>I don't think they do either, obesechicken13. It's just interesting to know how many are applying from your school, you know?</p>
<p>admissions websites sometimes lie =P u know how they say they dont consider interest? well my interviewer told me that they secretly do >__></p>
<p>^lol that is good how do you know and how significant do you think it is?</p>
<p>ooo, then i hope my interest in MIT shows in the interviewer's report when I told him I had visited MIT many times and had fun there. teehee..</p>
<p>and i'm the only one in my school to apply to MIT and caltech, but there are quite some of other people from my school applying to harvard, yale, stanford, etc, but I'm not too worried about the other people in my grade applying to all of those other schools. =)</p>
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admissions websites sometimes lie =P u know how they say they dont consider interest? well my interviewer told me that they secretly do >__>
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No, they secretly don't.</p>
<p>I wrote some percentage of the current MIT admissions website personally, and participated in the creation of a larger percentage than that, and there aren't any lies in there.</p>
<p>lol then my EC lied =P</p>
<p>At this link: MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research , if you scroll down a bit, there is one of those boxes with all of the different aspects of applications and how much they are considered. </p>
<p>It does say that level of interest is considered so I'd be interested to see where they say they don't.</p>
<p>From Matt's blog, here:</a>
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Eric Schmiedl wrote, "A question about MIT admissions philosophy. One of the things my school's college counselor said was big this year was "demonstrated interest," the practice of inundating the admissions office(s) at your school(s) of choice with emails, letters, and phone calls essentially telling them how much you want to go there. How do MIT admissions people weigh the "demonstrated interest" of an applicant in the admissions process?"</p>
<p>I have heard about some schools, often schools more concerned about yield, who emphasize demonstrated interest. For example, have you visited the campus, called the office a lot, etc. MIT does not. Stanford's admissions website actually has a nice answer that echoes our philosophy, which I'll quote:
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Some students are concerned they must visit campus regularly, attend all our regional information sessions, or keep in close contact with our office in order to show their interest in Stanford. We give no preference in the admission process to those applicants who demonstrate interest through these actions. We believe that the best indication of a student's ability to thrive at Stanford is through demonstrated excellence during high school and demonstrated effort through our written applications.
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<p>I should note that a reasonable amount of demonstrated interest will come into play in the waitlist process in May; more on that in the future.
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So I should amend: MIT does consider interest in the waitlist admissions process -- after you've been waitlisted, it's important to let MIT know if you're still interested in a spot there. But prior to the waitlist admissions process, demonstrated interest isn't considered.</p>