<p>I'm heavily tempted to answer some of these activities and distinctions questions with things like "Reddit", "Platinum League Protoss", and/or "System Idle Process". The answers are truthful, just not what you would usually see.
Would this come across as clever or would it seem like I'm not taking the app seriously enough?
(I'm 100% serious about trying to get in though)</p>
<p>I suspect it would come across as though you weren’t taking the application seriously. It’s better to show your personality and humor through an essay.</p>
<p>My humor has no off switch and I feel like leaving those fields empty is a wasted opportunity. :[</p>
<p>I suppose I’ll have to make this sacrifice in the name of admissions.</p>
<p>Another question- if I’m taking Stanford’s online Intro to AI course, can I list that under classes in section 7, or is that only for courses that are on a transcript?</p>
<p>^^ If you received grade of that class, you can list it there. According to MIT’s admission website, after the course title, you should include the institute you took that class.
For example: Intro to AI (Stanford EPGY Online)</p>
<p>Haha I was thinking the same thing. I honestly have nothing to put under non-scholastic distinctions either, so I was considering putting something about how I’m pretty good at Tetris. I mean, this is MIT, Tetris is something am kinda passionate about, but…guess not?</p>
<p>I mean, [url=<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/application_question_scholasti]here[/url”>Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? | MIT Admissions]here[/url</a>] he says “Random stuff (e.g. Prom King/Queen, “Most Likely to Succeed,” “I have read all of Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels”)” but that feels a little tongue-in-cheek in itself.</p>
<p>So yeah, better to just not put any non-scholastic distinctions down at all?</p>