<p>Ben, when it come to international applicant's grades, do you take into account relative competition? If so, how.?</p>
<p>For example, in india, High school exams are merely used as 'practice' for the board exams in march (at the 10th and 12th grades). Also, school grades make no difference to admissions to indian institutions. This being as such, our grading tends to become, well, rather subjective. My english teacher, for example, gave a maximum of 81% on the last three exams (i got between 78 and 80). She says she does this so that we dont get too overconfident for the boards, and doesnt subscribe to our views that these grades do have significant bearing in the future (only one other classmate of mine is applying abroad). On your scales, i believe 80% comes reeeeeally low down on the grades. (maybe a C- or something), and thats what she gave to the best paper, ehich she herself projects will get a 95+ in the boards!</p>
<p>Ben, does MIT see the number of times an applicant takes the SAT, or do they only see the highest composite score? I've heard that for some colleges, they have someone type the highest composite SAT score for applicants, and that's the only score that the adcom sees. Is this true for MIT? If not, does the number of times an applicant takes the SAT affect his/her decision?</p>
<p>Question 2: For candidates from the class of 06, how does MIT take SAT scores? Will they mix and match from old and new, or take the highest out of old and new? What's their policy regarding SATs for 06?</p>
<p>There really isnt aanything much to say about the grading system, and the principal kinda figured the people at MIT would know about the Indian system and therefore didnt send one! </p>
<p>Besides, what wuld she have sent, "We dont really care about the internal exams and therefore the marks we give out on these mean jack**** and completely represent how much the effort the student has been making to indulge the teacher( atleast in english)!"?</p>
<p>Ben: is there any way you can tell us a little info on how the selection committee has been doing....how many of our fates have been decided? (I keep getting these vibes that my fate is either being decided on this moment or has already been). Thanks.</p>
<p>Ben, at this point, will any more information be received by the selection committee? For instance, if a big award was won or if someone performed exceedingly well in some extracurricular activity, is there any way that information would get to the selection committee before an admissions decision was made?</p>
<p>As has been mentioned (I tried to find the exact post to link but couldn't, sorry...), it is now too late to add anything to the materials in the selection committee room. Information could still be sent and would be left in the outer files not used by the committee, and if there was a question about the application after the selection process, any newly added data would be reviewed. But it sounds as if it is too late to get anything before the committee's eyes at this point.</p>
<p>sadly we can do nothing about it!!
<em>if i have my mouth, i would bite; if i have my liberty, i would fight. i am what i am.</em>
---Don John in much ado about nothing
i have nothing.....wuwuwu</p>
<p>hey, i found out u edited ur message after i posted my comments following urs, which makes my comment totally nonsense.........................
hahahah
good luck anyway...</p>
<p>First off...many thanks. Its great your taking this much time out to answer our questions and the such. Plus its incredibly comforting putting a face to the admin office. My concern is that I had my senior year teacher right my science rec, because the one I wanted to had moved away at the end of last year without notifying us. I finally tracked him down, and he sent in a rec that I believe does a much better job of representing me (sometime in mid-january is when it was sent). I wanted to know if this would be reviewed?</p>
<p>-Cybero</p>
<p>PS</p>
<p>Is it me or does MIT have the most down to earth, and student friendly admissions process (online confirmation, humor in the app, organized and straightforeward...)? Why dont other schools take such an approach?</p>
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As has been mentioned (I tried to find the exact post to link but couldn't, sorry...), it is now too late to add anything to the materials in the selection committee room. Information could still be sent and would be left in the outer files not used by the committee, and if there was a question about the application after the selection process, any newly added data would be reviewed. But it sounds as if it is too late to get anything before the committee's eyes at this point.
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If your new rec arrived before early-mid Feb., it was likely included in the file that was reviewed and moved into the selection committee room. </p>