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<p>“I wanted to apply ED to MIT as well but now maybe to CalTech, if they have ED for internationals :P”</p>

<p>Neither MIT nor Caltech has an Early-Decision Program.</p>

<p>PS: MIT pretty much hates internationals. They love US citizens. In fact, they’re the only school in the United States to still have quotas for foreign citizens. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply though. Just know you’re up against some very stiff competition from US citizens who will most probably be accepted even if you are more qualified than them. The Ivies, on the other hand, are far more neutral. A couple actually prefer internationals over US citizens.</p>

<p>“I finally changed my January SAT test date to November. Now I can apply ED!”</p>

<p>Great decision. Best of luck, Glaedr! :)</p>

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<p>MIT pretty much hates internationals. They love US citizens. In fact, they’re the only school in the United States to still have quotas for foreign citizens. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply though. Just know you’re up against some very stiff competition from US citizens who will most probably be accepted even if you are more qualified than them. The Ivies, on the other hand, are far more neutral. A couple actually prefer internationals over US citizens.</p>

<p>And yet what I know, MIT is every other child’s dream to get in, atleast mine is :P</p>

<p>Not CalTech either? :open_mouth: Well maybe Duke or Stanford then? Or they dont have ED for internationals too?</p>

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<p>^ True.</p>

<p>The rest of the posts on this thread are laughably stupid.</p>

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<p>That is quite re-assuring.</p>

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<p>Not surprising because we are new to the admission process and have not received any counselling. Care to enlighten us?</p>

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<p>In what way?</p>

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<p>Nope.</p>

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<p>Every possible, since you have no concerns to us, why bother?</p>

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<p>okay, so commonapp is closed for maintenance? :|, No progress can be done till august now. :|, its been down for quite a while.</p>

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<p>The new commonapp (for 2011-12) will be available in august</p>

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<p>yep. The website says it will be up on August 1. Just have to wait till then.</p>

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<p>I have a question, If anyone knows here about it, on Commonapp, where it asks you about your schools, its like I had to change my school after 8th, then again in 9th and then cuz of our education, ultimately had to change for F.sc i.e so I’m going to be consistent for last two years, so do i have to mention all these in my application?</p>

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<p>so any of you guys started working on the common app?</p>

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<p>Just started yesterday.</p>

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<p>So where all do you plan on applying?</p>

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<p>and just mention the schools you’ve been in since 9th grade i guess. since the normal high school like ours starts from 9th grade</p>

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<p>Well these are the one’s I’m applying to and maybe Might add one or two LACs at the end. And thanks for the clarification.</p>

<p>Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Yale
Duke
Lafayette
Stanford
UPenn
Johns Hopkins
Jacobs
Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth
Tufts
Vanderbilt
Lehigh</p>

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<p>haha wow… thats quite an impressive list. you must be pretty confident applying to mostly ivies.
im applying to MIT and penn aswell.</p>

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<p>and maybe duke, if i have the time. Say, what do you plan on majoring in? i cant really figure out from your list.</p>

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<p>Well I have a long shot with most of the colleges in my list all thanks to my grades, though I have like a bit averagish ECs, but I do have high hopes with my SAT Score and college essays :D</p>

<p>And I’m intending to do engineering, hopefully Electrical or Computer Engineering and I surely will take a chance with Jerome fisher program at UPenn.</p>

<p>What about you? Plus you are going to apply to these three or some others as well?</p>

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<p>im gonna be applying to quite a few,
Cornell
Chicago
Carnegie Mellon
Penn
Notre Dame
Boston College
MIT
Harvard
Babson
ill apply to a few more, my guidance office permits around 12, however you can easily get away with 15-16. so yea</p>