Do you need to create another MyMIT account if you reapply or can you request the admissions office for an account rollover? Also on one of their blog post (from like 2009) they said that they still have your entire application from last year even if you reapply, so does that mean that they’ll read both of them to evaluate you?
Why don’t you call admissions and ask – that way you will know the correct answer with 100% certainty.
Will you be reapplying as a transfer student?
@jpm50 No, as freshman
As long as you understand it’s purely a vanity project - barring some huge event top colleges don’t go “oops, we were wrong, we should have admitted you”. They see you applied already and got rejected, and set you aside in case you won a gold medal and wrote better essays but your odds are a fraction of what they were before you applied.
@equality4all:
You’re a graduating HS senior who got accepted to at least Georgia Tech.
And you want to reapply to MIT to enter as a freshman in the fall of 2019.
That leaves two questions:
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Why aren’t you attending (some) college next year that you already got accepted to?
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If you don’t attend school, what will you be doing with your life between now and November that would significantly change the strength of your application to MIT?
It feels like you’re choosing to not attend school next year in hopes you’ll get accepted to MIT.
In reading through equality4all’s replies and threads, I think she is applying because of prestige, not because of fit.
This is what we know based on the threads:
- is an international living in Canada [therefore is international]
- she applied to Wellesley on their common app
- was admitted to GA Tech
- also applied to Penn, Columbia, Harvey Mudd, Harvard, Yale, MIT, UChicago, Princeton, (maybe Wellesley and UMich Ann Arbor)
Since it may not be a bad idea to rehash:
Most college applicants in the United States figure based on their abilities and interests and then the programs and majors at the schools – they think about fit.
Fit includes academics.
Fit includes athletics (if applicable).
Fit includes core / general requirements.
Fit includes possible majors.
Fit includes other programs.
Fit includes looking at extracurriculars.
Fit includes geography and weather. (e.g., Boston is brutal in January and February.)
Fit looks at culture.
Fit looks at school values and virtues.
Based on those factors, applicants then think about reach (low percent of admission), match (possible to likely), and safety schools (nearly guaranteed or very likely to be admitted).
It is generally not worth it to wait a year or to take a gap year. Generally, wisdom says go to the school that wants you, and make the best of the opportunity.
If an applicant takes even a single term of full-time classes at any institution of higher learning, he/she is now a transfer applicant – not freshman applicant.
Gap years are generally frowned upon by conventional wisdom – chances are not good to be admitted to reach colleges.
College admissions committees are still looking for both academics and “good fit” to the college. Some applicants believe that “if they focus on their academics and improving that, they will be admitted.” No. Other applicants take a gap year to do humanitarian work and neglect their academics. That poses academic risk.
I really haven’t seen that many gap year takers do well the second time around. There was a Kiwi kid who was waitlisted in 2017 (later rejected, in fact, rejected by all of his schools) and then spiraled into depression. He spent a year tutoring, working, discerning and doing stuff – and sharpened his focus. He only applied to MIT EA and was admitted to the Class of 2022.
Don’t let the exception make the rule.
I second jpm50’s questions.