<p>One year ago today, I told myself that I would come back and make this thread. I got Deferred--> Rejected last year and ended up going to a school that I thought of as a 4th or 5th choice. As I said at the time, MIT had been my dream for a long, long time. Do I still wish that I had gotten in there? Absolutely. However, I'm having a great time at the school that I did end up going to. Remember that if you were a competitive applicant to MIT, you have the power to succeed wherever you go. A rejection that, right now, feels like the end of the world ends up feeling like a different path that your life could have taken, not necessarily what had to happen. Keep your heads up and don't be bitter or dismissive when evaluating the options that you now (or in a couple weeks) have before you.</p>
<p>Where did you go?</p>
<p>I ended up at Case Western after spending almost all of April deciding between it and Tufts.</p>
<p>Case Western is a great school, and thanks for your meaningful advice. It’s easy to wallow in a rejection, but it’s pointless because it won’t change the decision. Looking forward is the way to go.</p>
<p>Especially when the school you were rejected at has no idea what it is doing.</p>
<p>@ ltxdeslic please, you aren’t special. You are the 92%. Just because they didn’t choose you doesn’t mean you have to rain on the system.</p>
<p>The system needs to be exposed for what it is</p>
<p>^Compared to many other applicants, your stats were not impressive. Suck it up and stop whining. There is nothing to expose of MIT. Your attitude only makes people treat you more like a joke.</p>
<p>Thanks OP for the inspirational words :)</p>
<p>2380+USAMO isn’t impressive? </p>
<p>Haters gonna hate.</p>
<p>@komaromy31 - You’re awesome, and thank you for making this thread.</p>
<p>@lyxdeslic - God, the irony of you posting “Haters gonna hate.”</p>
<p>ivy league > MIT</p>
<p>/thread</p>
<p>^ Youmad? lol</p>
<p>One cannot change the past, but one can change the future. :)</p>
<p>mit > you.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>MIT rejects–like lyxdeslic-- are crying with rage. They believe they deserved/earned a spot in MIT. But they didn’t. Now they cry with anger about the process. Maybe you should complain about the holistic approach/affirmative action to the IVY schools also. Afterall, isn’t that what MIT uses? Suker.</p>
<p>Imagining lysdelix getting rejected everywhere.</p>
<p>Not that hard.</p>
<p>@lysdelix You are entitled to your opinion, so you can think whatever you want to about MIT and their admissions procedures and that is totally within your rights. However, I don’t think you should be sharing these opinions on this thread. I’m not going to share my opinion about whether you’re right or wrong because I don’t think that discussion belongs in this thread. The person who started this thread was trying to give students who were rejected some perspective and help them find a positive outlook, so I think it would be best if we keep this thread upbeat and positive by refraining from discussing the validity of admissions decisions. The thread you started was closed because the discussion was getting too heated, so I think we should see that as a hint that it is time to stop discussing that topic.</p>
<p>I was deferred then rejected (or waitlisted) from MIT last year.
To be honest, I dont even remember how I felt.
But, I am glad MIT (and Harvard and Princeton) did not accept me because I am having GREAT TIME at the University of Chicago. Also, 40K (grant + Scholarship) isnt so bad either.</p>
<p>BTW, I had 2380 SAT and 35 ACT and 800-800-800-780 SAT II, AIME (2), and 3.96GPA from an elite HS.</p>
<p>lysdelix
I feel your pain but dont be so angry. You will have great time at Yale.
Good luck to you!</p>
<p>@lyxdeslic- </p>
<p>Assuming a million people write SAT, you’re score of 2380 isn’t unique, there are a THOUSAND people other than you who have got the similar score. So going by you’re logic do they all get t go to MIT? NO.</p>
<p>I think you have a very wrong and misplaced sense of what MIT is. It isn’t some place where you will be granted admission just because you have the stats. Its a place where you get accepted for those things stats-obsessed-people like you will never get, because its nt possible to quantify those things. </p>
<p>I haven’t been to MIT at all, but for the past about 4 to 5 years, I have read almost everything I could about MIT. I felt happy reading about the weird and quirky culture at MIT, throwing the piano off the roof of Baker, or be it their marvellous hacks- I loved it all. I knew I was going to be rejected and yet I applied to know for sure I wouldn’t get in. So far what I have learned it is that MIT wants people who live their lives, be creative and prank"ful" with the world around them. You get in if the adcoms know that you fit in at the culture or not. And this isn’t something you can depict via scores and grades; you can’t say that “hey I got 2400, I am qualified for the culture”. </p>
<p>Of course I could be completely wrong here. </p>
<p>And also get rid of this mentality, “I am 2400+USAMO, I totally deserve to go to MIT”, its not going to help you, not at Yale not at even a community college. </p>
<p>You have 2300+? So do 1000’s of others who apply to MIT excluding me. How can you say you deserve to go to MIT more than anyone else, just based on your stats and some exam?</p>
<p>phr34k:
USAMO is prestigious. It really is. Go on google and check out the process of qualifying for the USAMO. Pretty intense.</p>
<p>lysdelix:
But there are still at least a couple hundred people who qualify each year. MIT IS NOT GOING TO ACCEPT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. EVEN IF YOU MAKE THE US IMO TEAM MIT CAN STILL REJECT YOU.</p>