<p>i stand corrected, apart from 3 exceptional people noone else got in:)</p>
<p>man, that makes me nervous. so many people with sat score s of 1420 got rejected......... i have 1420........... and i am still waiting for my rejection letter now.</p>
<p>**
Rejected
**
*Domestic *</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1600/800/790/770
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 102.5w, 98uw, 2/504
[<em>]APs / other stats: took as many APs as possible at my school 1 in Junior year, 4 this year.
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]Intel STS Semifinalist[/li][</em>]JSHS states
[<em>]RSI, no just kidding, cause then I wouldn't be rejected.
[</em>]Coca Cola finalist
[<em>]I dont feel like listing more.
[</em>]Tae Kwon do Blackbelt. Competed internationally
[<em>]Varsity tennis
[</em>]International awards for classical vocal
[<em>]Started/operated a business
[</em>]President of several clubs. Started a couple.
[<em>]ARRRRGH
[</em>]I can do awesome magic tricks
[<em>]Varsity not-getting-accepted-to-MIT
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: One about passion for science, the other humorous
[<em>]Teacher Recs: One from science teacher amazing (best student ever-ish). One from humanities also excellent. Asked an Ivy professor (with whom I research) to send a letter also.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Great.
[<em>]Interview: Went awesomely. Dude was totally chill. He called and was all like Get your stuff in cause youre gonna do maaad good
[</em>]Hook (if any): I can drop some mad beatz
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): Alas, NY
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Asian male
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: research/MIT doesnt like me, applied as a physics major. Id assume more weaknesses than strengths, since I was, you know, rejected.
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: I was rejected because when the admissions officer tossed my application into the accept pile, the Coriolis effect made it shift to the other pile.
[/ul]
Any other comments: Sall good. Doesnt make me any less awesome at dropping ill beatz. Also, and this may have been big: I didn't tell them about a lot of my accomplishments (pertaining to research and math and science particularly) until it may have been too late - like first couple days of March. They say it doesnt make a difference, but it's possible.</p>
<p>Why is it green for "Rejected?" That makes little sense to me...green means go, and I'm not going to MIT. Red means stop, and the Coriolis effect (see above) stopped me from going to MIT.</p>
<p>**
Accepted
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1420/780/780/610
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.67 uw, 4.0823 w, 37/379
[<em>]APs / other stats: 5: Physics B, Physics C Mech, & Calc AB; 3: English Language; 2: US History
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]Chamber Choir[/li][</em>]Academic Team
[<em>]Physics Tutor
[</em>]Physics Olympics
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[<em>]Essays: One on my bad family life, the other on singing
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Physics teacher who knows me very well, English teacher who wrote with flowery language
[<em>]Counselor Rec: No reason to think it wasn't good
[</em>]Interview: Truely the best. Talked for almost 2 hours. He gave me a guitar as a gift. Need I say more?
[<em>]Hook (if any): Not your typical parent-guided applicant. Played the hand that was deal me.
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): FL
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: White male
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: Perseverance/Had no EC my 9th and 10th grade years.
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: I was accepted because I have personality and passion.[/li][/ul]
Any other comments: Let me be an example that if you want something hard enough, you can get it. Look at my SATs and GPA, theyre not the greatest. After a certain point, academically, MIT will look for the Person. Oh yea, and there is your 1420, ladies and gentlemen</p>
<p>*Rejected
*
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1570 (800M 770V/800W/750 IIC/700 chem
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.36 w, no uw, no rank, but top 10/550
[<em>]APs / other stats: 5 Art History, 5 US History, 4 Latin Virgil, 4 APs this year and two college classes at Univ. CA Irvine
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]AP scholar, NM Finalist[/li][</em>]various state piano awards for composition and repitoire
[<em>]national essay writing awards
[</em>]huge list of NJCL (Latin) awards, NLE medals, state Latin awards, club positions... you name it in Latin, I have it
[<em>]other small random community service awards and leadership positions.. same old stuff I guess
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: very original and humerous, my English teacher said perfect for MIT
[<em>]Teacher Recs: excellent I assume... I sent in the required and some extra from my Russian prof
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Fine, I assume
[<em>]Interview: went pretty well, I has the chance to explain some things (not like there was much), and we seemed to click
[</em>]Hook (if any): mostly humanities based app and heavy demonstrated interest in linguistics/girl/white/sent in an original orchestrated music score for the "something you created" essay
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): CA
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: White female
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: originality in terms of essays/interests/course selection, but lack of science extra curriculars
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: I guess I knew rejection was coming, but I was hoping my near flawless transcript and high scores (and clearly demonstrated interest in a prevalent field of the humanities) would compensate for my lack of science ECs/research, but I suppose not
[/ul]
Any other comments: Now I can be extra happy when Harvard takes me? hm... I can only wish. :(</p>
<p>rejected, but the right decision</p>
<p>hey, Vampielin Red, which high school are u from????? i live very close to you, yet i haven't got my decision letter yet.
u...... from??? UHS????</p>
<p>timrades: Congratulations on your acceptance to MIT.</p>
<p>
[quote]
He gave me a guitar as a gift
[/quote]
</p>
<p>what is this a joke?</p>
<p>**
Accepted
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1360/710/700/640
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.46 w, 3/1065
[<em>]APs / other stats: Chem-4, US hist-4, current: Calc AB, Physics B, English Lit
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]NJ Governor School of Engineering[/li][</em>]President of NHS, Interact Club, Student Government, various others.
[<em>]way too many hours of community services.
[</em>]Ive mostly dedicated around 5 hrs every day to ECs for the past 4 years.</p>
<p>[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty good accordin to my friends
[</em>]Teacher Recs: All great
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>]Interview: Went extremely well.
[<em>]Hook (if any): none, I was simply myself.
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): NJ
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Asian Female
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: My strength is that I never got a less than an A- in any class ever.
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: I really thought my interview went extremely well.[/li][/ul]
Any other comments: I'm posting this on behalf of my friend who got in. She's always wanted to go but she is unsure if she will actually enroll in the school due to fin. aid (At least that is what she told me). Although she did nothing truly amazing, she is the perfect kind of person to attend MIT... She literally kills herself everyday caring about everything from academics to making sure she calls that sick teacher at home to see how they are doing. It's almost ridiculous at times. Anyways, hope this helped.</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I & II or ACT: 1460, 710, 700, 700, 720, 630
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.1 w, no uw, no rank, but top 10% of 300
APs / other stats: 10 APs total - Chem, Bio, Physics C, Calc AB, Lit, Psych, Microecon, Macroecon, US, World
Major awards/ECs: Too many small ones to name
Subjective:
Essays: Fine
Teacher Recs: Fine
Counselor Rec: Fine
Interview: None
Hook (if any): A couple..too lazy to type
Personal:
Location (State or Country): GA
Ethnicity & Gender: Asian female
Major strength/weakness: Too lazy</p>
<p>Congrats everyone....me still waiting...mmm...havent seen any intls waitlisted yet...?</p>
<p>**
Rejected
**
International</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: (no SAT 1) 800 2C; 800 Phy
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: n/a; n/a (believed to be around top 3)
[<em>]APs / other stats: A-levels in Maths, Further Maths and predicted grades in Phy and Chem; acceptable TOEFL score:)
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]I did nothing in competitions :P Being contestant is not my fav :)[/li][/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Average
[<em>]Teacher Recs: One great, other fantastic <<<seemed so
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Fine
[<em>]Interview: Enough to express myself :) Dunno the interviewer's opinion :)
[</em>]Hook (if any): maybe my eldership :P, and a sci-fi suppt :D
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): GB
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Far-Eastern Asian
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: just enthusiasm and brain :D
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: as expected :) a littble bit worried about future life :D
[/ul]
Any other comments: Snails nowadays truly know how to use GPS to lead them cross the Atlantic within only 3 days :D I expected my rejection to come on Thurs :(</p>
<p>Rejected -but was expecting it-so not too dejected</p>
<p>How come, akash? You recieved your mail eh?</p>
<p>yeah-it was beneath the acceptance package from Purdue</p>
<p>Akash, I thought you're accepted by Harvard Early Action.</p>
<p>**
Rejected
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1490/800/800/800
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.4w, 2/150
[<em>]APs / other stats: full IB candidate, predicted 41/42
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]Europe-wide math competitions: 13th in 10th grade, 11th in 11th grade, 6th in 12th (all out of about 180)[/li][</em>]Started small software company in '99 (Domain Softworx): shareware for the Mac. Kept it going so far.
[<em>]Columnist for RB Developer magazine
[</em>]Honor Society
[<em>]National Merit Commended Scholar
[</em>]Global Youth Leadership Conference
[<em>]Lighting crew chief in school's theater
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Not so great
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Amazing
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Good
[<em>]Interview: Not so great, I forgot some stuff, but I called the guy later and talked some more
[</em>]Hook (if any): Domestic applicant living abroad, software company?
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): Belgium
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Half-white half-Asian male
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: Not enough ECs, not balanced enough?
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: I just wish I knew why. It seems like some people who had less than me got in.
[/ul]</p>
<p>ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I & II or ACT: 1590/800/780/780
* GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.9, No Rank
* APs / other stats: 3 AP's
</code></pre>
<p>Damn gotta run so cant put everything else in!</p>
<p>**
Rejected
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1530/800 Math IIC/790 Physics/660 Writing
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.89, school does not rank
[<em>]APs: 5 BC, 5 Chem, will take Phys C and MicroEcon
[</em>]Other Stuff: Columbia SHP, participated in Siemens and Intel STS, lotsa engineering stuff, Panasonic Creative design challenege, Intern at a Fujitsu R&D subsidiary, started entreprenurship club blah blah
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[<em>]USPhO Semifinalist
[</em>]Yale Sci&Eng award
[<em>]1st in Comp Sci and Microbiology at regional science fair
[</em>]2nd in Engineering
[<em>]7th in national battlebots competition (stupid battlebots people have BAD IFI systems)
[</em>]Got into finalist round for ISEF trip in regional science fairs twice, never made it
[<em>]NMSQT commended student, blah blah (many other awards)...
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: ok i guess
[<em>]Teacher Recs: no clue, once again, ok
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Fine
[<em>]Interview: I thought it was good
[</em>]Hook (if any): ?
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): NJ
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Indian
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: writing score? i seem like a typical indian wannabe engineer?
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: none. I attend a school where people work too hard and go on to international competitions while i am lazy
[/ul]
Any other comments: I hate my life.</p>