<p>Ok, Rejected this year :( . However, I am not going to surrender to MIT admission office! :P I think I hadn't done anything close to my best for my application this year, sadly and regretfully. therefore, I am thinking of applying next year. My question is, how much the fact that I had been rejected once, and also my essays, recommendations and my application this year in general which= Rejection, will effect my new application for next year? How much of my chances have been lowered for next year? alot/little/any at all?</p>
<p>Are they going to re-read my previous essays when evaluating my application for next year?</p>
<p>Well why do YOU think you were rejected? Pardon me, not accepted. And could you change that, and is there no other school you would be happy to go to?</p>
<p>@mathboy98, like I said, I hadn’t done anything close to my best in my application (Essays, Scores, Interview, even recommendations). I would apply to other schools as well, obviously, but was thinking whether to re-apply to my dream school, The MIT! :)</p>
<p>You can definitely reapply for undergraduate studies, but unless you do something significantly different the second time around, you’re unlikely to get admitted. So, if you’re taking a year off applying, make sure you do something worthwhile.</p>
<p>The admissions office does keep applications and summary cards from previous years, but I don’t remember whether they’re typically consulted in the case of someone who’s re-applying. But even if they are, your new application is what will carry weight – they certainly won’t reject you for having re-applied.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that old essays are not consulted. And I know of at least one case where an applicant got in to MIT on the second attempt, leading the admissions office to wonder “How did we let him slip by last year?”, given the obvious brilliance of what he had accomplished in that year.</p>
<p>The often unspoken truth is that people do not apply to universities. Application folders apply to universities. There are certainly some people each year whose wonderfulness does not completely come across in their application folder. In my own case, I reread an application essay in June that I was quite pleased with in December and thought “I wrote this blather, and then I submitted it. What was I thinking?”</p>
<p>With that in mind, reread your application. Did you let yourself down? If you were planning a gap year anyway, then sure, reapply and do a better job this time. However, if you feel that your application was as strong as it was likely to get, and a good reflection of yourself, then as k4re3n2 says, unless you do something amazing in your year off, do not be surprised if you are again “not admitted.”</p>
<p>I am applying from Afghanistan. I had no adviser, teacher, or any person to tell me how to do these stuff. I had to sit behind a computer and figure out that all by amyself in the web, with my very slow internet connection. It is really difficult to do these stuff, to prepare yourself for such education, to just qualify to apply to schools such as MIT, AS AN Afghan in Afghanistan. I am the only Afghan in Afghanistan who is doing all this! Applying to US universities by himself.</p>
<p>My application wasn’t good at all and I could do alot and alot better. Do they expect me to DO sth great in this year? due to my family financial status, I have to work and support my family. :(</p>
<p>Most people are in the same situation as you, so do not overpersonalize Since there are a limited number of student visas available, MIT can only admit a few int’l applicants. By a few, I mean really really low. The international applicant pool is highly competitive in almost any university however its even more competitive at MIT since almost all applicants are academicly qualified.</p>
<p>Logic says that being previously rejected and applying again would show the admission officers that you are really interested instead of killing your chances. So don’t be nervous because of being rejected before.</p>
<p>On the other hand, regarding this free year, take advantage of it and don’t think it as a vacation. Working can’t damage your chances, so don’t worry, it can only show them that you are a responsible person. However you must find a balance. You have to dedicate some of your time to education, scientific pursuits and stuff that will make you stand from other applicants. I know it will be hard to do anything science-related in your situation, but you need to search thru every source, every single possibility… Are you only interested in MIT or are you open to different ideas too?</p>
<p>2 Friends of mine got into MIT this year. You should use their stategy. One was Native American and other was from Belize. They both had sub 2200 SAT scores and around 4.1 Gpa. One is a swimmer and the other doesn’t play sports. The stellar kids at my school were rejected but these girls were accepted. I recommend changing your race</p>
<p>@ Phoestre, exactly, as you realized, it is really difficult to do anything scientific here…but I’ll do my best to find sth and get involved into sth… MIT is my dream school, but obviously there are other very good schools out there as well that I would apply to. So any ideas? :)</p>
<p>@ Chris, That’s just awesome! lucky me … thanx
This time my interview was by phone, and as a non-native speaker and also with all the natural stress and anxiety of an MIT Admission Interview, I was not comfortable at all and failed to represent myself well. I hope this year MIT would hold a face-2-face interview for me. </p>
<p>@ Jengajenga, lolz, MIT has never had an Afghan FROM Afghanistan in its history!(as far as I know); moreover, even in Afghanistan, I’m from an ethnic minority! So I could tell you that the strongest part of my application was actually my race! lolz…</p>
<p>Not sure 'bout MIT but other HYSPs have admitted Afghans FROM Afghanistan in past will continue to do so. In fact, applications from Middle East(and a little east of M.East) are very common in application pool for almost all big universities.</p>
<p>Yeah phone interviews suck. The degradation of voice and delay of sound combined with being inexperienced to talk in English on phone, almost kills any good conversation. However admission officers along with ECs are probably aware of that issue so just try your best.</p>
<p>Regarding schools… Well you should consider Stanford, Purdue, Texas A&M, UMinnesota and several others. MIT and Stanford would be your reaches, the most unpredicable ones… Honestly its hard to recommend anything since I don’t know what are your interests?</p>
<p>I’ll definitely look at HYSP more later. I want to study chemical Engineering. I am really interested in the alternative energy field and I am applying for full aid. I will apply to all need blind schools + some other need sensitive schools. Is there any school that you think i would have more chances in?</p>
<p>UMinnesota’s tution for int’ls is around what most would call in state. You should check it out, however I have no idea about ChemE there. But if you get there, don’t expect the whole tution to be covered by aid.</p>
<p>@sMITten, “As an international, you are not likely to receive much aid.”, are you saying this specifically for Carnegie Mellon or MIT? Althought this is true almost everywhere, MIT is very very generous in FinAid compared to most if not all(if the statistics are true).</p>
<p>I’m not an international, so haven’t researched this specifically, but from everything I have learned, financial aid for internationals (generically) is not generous. I do not know about CMU or MIT specifically.</p>
<p>@sMITten
You are right. Federal/State funds are citizen/permanent resident only however institutional funds are at the institution’s will.</p>
<p>@collegealum314
Do you know whatever MIT FinAid cover internationls or not? AFAIK, it does(not sure how much) but I really don’t want to mislead fromkabul.</p>
<p>I’ve heard financial aid is as generous with internationals as with domestics, but that was from someone on this board. In other words, financial aid is citizenship-blind. I’m not an authority on this, though. MITChris would know definitively.</p>
Since there are a limited number of student visas available, MIT can only admit a few int’l applicants. By a few, I mean really really low. The international applicant pool is highly competitive in almost any university however its even more competitive at MIT since almost all applicants are academicly qualified.</p>
… thanx