<p>May I know if it's okay to provide my school's website as school profile? I asked my school counselors and they have no idea what kind of documents to provide. On my school website, there are few webpages show my school's statistics, courses, school grading systems etc. Would that be good enough? I understand that this is to help to add important context to the application and my teachers' comments.</p>
<p>I wonder what would other applicants submit for this part. Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, that’s probably fine. Some schools have a pre-printed sheet or brochure with that information, which is what the counselors submit, but if your school puts that information online, it’s fine to submit it that way.</p>
<p>It is probably fine, but the role of the profile is to help MIT understand how to interpret your academic achievements. Such information may or may not be on the website. For example, at one school in my country, all students are graded out of 100. A score of 73/100 is a solid A, a 76/100 may be achieved by one exceptional student in any given year. Without MIT knowing that, a kid who applies with a 78/100, which might be the highest grade the school has ever in its history given, might not have that score properly evaluated. </p>
<p>Or a common question that we see on this board from international students from Africa, Southeast Asia or the UK is “How many A-levels do you need for MIT.” Now a great many schools limit the number of A-levels that their students can take. At one school near me, (call it school A) the maximum is 3 A-levels, at another (school B), the maximum is 5 A-levels. At arguably the highest rated school in the country, the maximum is 4 A-levels. If a student applies for example from School A with 3 A-levels, then that is perfectly fine. If a student applies from School B with 3 A-levels, then something is seriously wrong. </p>
<p>The school profile is the opportunity for someone who knows you in your school to write to MIT and tell them how to interpret the information that the school is providing to them. If everything that you need is on the website, then that is fine. But at a lot of schools, particularly private schools, the information on the website is designed to flatter the school. It is aimed at prospective parents, and is designed to show that students from that school do superbly. Take a look at it, and see if the website profile will make your accomplishments clear to MIT.</p>