<p>Well to clarify, we <em>want</em> pretty much everyone, but are limited by class size. :-(</p>
<p>Keep the faith though guys, it's a tough applicant pool, but you're all super, and you just never know what can happen.</p>
<p>REQUIRED TO GO TO <em>THAT</em> SCHOOL???????? by THAT SCHOOL u mean MIT????
OH MY GOD EVEN IF I AM NOT REQUIRED TO DO SO, I WILL DO ALL I CAN <em>EXCEPT COMMITING CRIMES</em> TO get in..........get ..in..........
but me think i am not gett ing in.......wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu............
p.s.: oops, i intended to follow karthikiko's comments.
but, yea, after reading Ben;s entry...........this one seems really weird...</p>
<p>no...that school being an ed school if you applied =). mit = ea, soooo if you had gotten in early, you could still decline.</p>
<p>lol LithiumBromide..... relax, dude :p</p>
<p>Ben said, "you just never know what can happen" and I absolutely dig that phrase!!</p>
<p>oops, now karthikkito is following my comments in which i said i intended to follow karthikkito's comments.............all messed up........
but yea, thanks BEN!!!!!!!
at least i won't be harshly crushed <em>by myself</em>if i get an thin envolop AGAIN.........</p>
<p>to mercurysquad: EXACTLY, if i know what is going to happen..............<em>mian, I OBVIOUSLY CAN'T B/C I AM NOT GOD ,</em> which is good. ^^</p>
<p>hey, guys.......... i am soooooooooooo sorry........... i think i am just creating tensions to everybody's mind.........i apologize...........
so for today i am gona stop CCing and go back to write my poem for english class.....
which makes me even sadder b/c i hate writing poemssssssssssssss</p>
<p>Ben, a very inappropriate question which i probably shouldnt be asking -
I gave my teacher's eval-B to my geography teacher. Its probably a good one as ive known him well for sometime now and ive generally been in his good books. However, his handwriting isnt all that, um, legible. Will that adversely affect me? ps. he has some 25+ years of teaching experience in one of my city's premier schools.</p>
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<p>Oh and thanks for your efforts to ease our insomnia. We all appreciate that very much.</p>
<p>(i am NOT trying to be sarcastic)</p>
<p>Hehe how can your teacher's handwriting not get you in to MIT :p :p (unless they can't even read the rec!)</p>
<p>shash_rao, I have the same problem, just with my English teacher. I really have a tough time reading anything he writes, but I'm hoping his message will get through to the adcoms.</p>
<p>plese folks, why is international student admissions HIGHLY competitive ???</p>
<p>What do these international students have ???</p>
<p>Fewer seats.</p>
<p>And international applicants are typically some of the brightest students in their respective countries, making it 5x stronger than the domestic pool.</p>
<p>Shash_rao - LOL, you should see some of the handwriting we have to read. Rest assured, we've become <em>very</em> adept at "translating." :-)</p>
<p>Same here ben :( We're no admissions committee, but we DO have to register a thousand HANDWRITTEN names.... that have been copied, and faxed, and copied again. </p>
<p>White seems to be the ink color of choice this year -_-</p>
<p>Ben,
first, thx for answering all the question...a lot of my questions have been asked by other applicans and satisfactorily answered.</p>
<p>The question I had (and ofcouse, u can tk a pass on it) is why intl applicants are not allowed to apply during the early round?? It has been very well published that the acceptance % is much higher during the early round than in the RD, and on a probabilistic scale feel that the rule is damaging to intl applicants...As a disclosure, this aint a political statement or nething like that...i just felt curious on why MIT is the only school to follow this kind of a policy... thx
(reminder: u can tk a pass on this question!)</p>
<p>i think this had been answered on matt's blog before, but while i look for the reference...</p>
<p>basically, there are only about 100 spaces for international students, so obviously, the competition is VERY tough. if students were admitted during ea round, that would place students who applied regular for whatever reason at a huge disadvantage. by funneling all int'l apps into one pool, each student can be evaluated in the context of the whole...not two different groups. after all, with only 100 spaces, where does one draw a cutoff? 20 students? 30? and if one student is so borderline, why not make it 31? [just a personal feeling] i think when there are larger numbers of admits, such as domestic, a difference of one is not so major. however, there are much greater implications when admitting even just one extra international (due to the extreme competition).</p>
<p>same reason why a great deal of ea domestics were deferred - comparison to the rest of the pool.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>sigh how sad - I always wanted to apply early to MIT, but couldn't. And as a result I didn't apply early anywhere else because MIT's my first choice. Wish there were 200 spaces for internationals instead=(</p>
<p>^Don't feel bad, I didn't even know I was applying to MIT until mid-december , and now it is my first choice (long story).</p>
<p>And Ben, I got another question for you. I want to know if photos are a decent supplement? I found a picture from one of my weightlifting competitions and I was about to send it in, but my dad said that would be arrogant :( I thought it went nicely with my application (especially additional essay); Is stuff like that worth sending?</p>
<p>Adides - Matt did answer this question very well in his blog and I've been struggling to find it (no luck). I'll keep looking and/or ask him.</p>
<p>KirbusPrime - photos are always cool, especially if an applicant is doing something cool in them, but unfortunately it's too late for supplements at this juncture...</p>
<p>Adides,</p>
<p>Matt said, "We only have one round of admissions for international students, during regular action. Given the small number of international students we are allowed to admit each year, it is better for us to compare all of the applications together than to have an early and regular round."</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://blogs.mit.edu/madmatt/posts/4752.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://blogs.mit.edu/madmatt/posts/4752.aspx</a></p>