<p>they actually compare and contrast the 2 applications?? </p>
<p>And if your 2 applications are inconsistent with each other? lol Like if you took a certain course in junior, and then you dropped it, or if you said you were going to do research that summer (and you were already accepted to that program), except that something happened so that you couldn't attend... </p>
<p>So if this is the case, do you have to explain all the inconsistencies? It's not like you were trying to lie the previous year, but stuff happens.</p>
<p>I don’t think they’d be upset if you said that you were going to do stuff and you didn’t end up doing it, as long as you still did something.</p>
<p>Essentially, the answer to the question was ‘if you didn’t do anything to enhance your application, you’ll probably still be rejected’. So, as long as your senior application is stronger than your junior application, I don’t think that it will matter that you said you were going to feed 1000 starving African children and you only fed 500.</p>
<p>But if it’s like you dropped 2 of your courses in junior year and you’ve didn’t do something else that you claimed you’d do, wouldn’t that give them the impression that you make a lot of empty claims (and don’t follow through) or you do stuff just to be admitted (because you suddenly dropped a bunch of stuff after you found out you didn’t get in)?</p>
<p>I mean, if your application is weaker this time around, then you’re going to get rejected again. It sounds like you kind of dropped the ball, to be honest. I hope you did something really awesome with your extra year.</p>
<p>I applied as a junior because I was curious, but I didn’t know that it was going to affect me negatively this year. </p>
<p>I guess I dropped them because it was more of an overestimation. </p>
<p>If I were to apply fresh this year (like if they didn’t know I applied last year), then my application would definitely be a lot stronger this year than the application I submitted last year. I’m pretty sure I was flat-out rejected last year (like it didn’t even get to the second reader). My application from last year would definitely make a bad impression of me, and especially if they read the previous one first and then read the new one. </p>
<p>So when they ask whether you have applied before, you kind of have to tell them, right? Why do they care whether you’ve applied before anyways?</p>
<p>yeah, but it’s a different story when they’ll be a bunch of inconsistencies. Are they really going to admit people who make empty claims? It’ll be as if I lied or something</p>
<p>But you didn’t make any promises, you just stated what you intended to do. If those things aren’t there anymore, just show them what you did with your time instead</p>
<p>For me at least, a lot changed from Junior to Senior year–my personality, my interests, my extracurricular activities, and my maturity level, to name a few. Junior year was a big year for me, and had I applied to MIT as a Junior my application and my essays would look completely different from how they look now.</p>
<p>Also, when I send my transcript to MIT this year, it will say that I dropped two major courses–two of my favorite courses, actually. But I will explain that I dropped those courses to make room for a research opportunity. Change is normal. I think you should relax and do your best. Your chance of getting accepted is 0% if you don’t apply.</p>
<p>I didn’t really do something else instead. </p>
<p>It was more like I said that I would do a lot of stuff, and then I ended up doing only half of it (partly because of time and overestimation). </p>
<p>The only real stronger components this year are like that I actually carried out part of what I claimed to do, my essays will be stronger, and I redid my SAT’s. </p>
<p>Again, if I apply fresh this year, I might actually have a chance but if they’re going to compare and contrast, I’d need to write like 2 pages single spaced explaining the inconsistencies.</p>