<p>Hi futbol98! I am from NJ how about you?</p>
<p>Hey everyone! Congrats to all of you who have heard good news! For those of you who didn’t hear good news, don’t worry, not getting into WTP won’t hinder your application to MIT. If you have gotten into WTP and aren’t sure if you want to go, please feel free to ask me any questions you may have about it! I went to WTP EECS last summer and had the time of my life :)</p>
<p>Accepted to ME :)</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got accepted! But, like NginEar said, don’t worry if you didn’t get into WTP. It does not correlate to your chances at MIT. If you got waitlisted, you still have a chance! I was waitlisted last year and got in eventually (I also got into MIT EA this year). </p>
<p>So if you are accepted, I strongly STRONGLY encourage you to go! I went to ME track last year and it was absolutely amazing! I enjoyed every minute of it. I got to do some really cool projects, visited bunch of labs, toured around boston, and most importantly got to know some really amazing people! Feel free to ask me any questions about WTP especially ME track, I will be very glad to answer :)</p>
<p>firevswater, i have a question about the waitlist (as you might guess,
i am on it -_-)
do you have any idea how long it usually is? and, also-- the million dollar question-- do you know how common it is for waitlistees to be accepted eventually?</p>
<p>hey NginEar I got into the program and I was just wondering if you could give me more information, like how much time you spend working and what you guys do for fun. also do you do things with RSI and MITES?</p>
<p>mathgirl21 - I’m from Michigan - around the Detroit area.</p>
<p>@firevswater: Do you think it’s worth the ~$3000 that it costs to go?</p>
<p>Did the program give you a sufficient introduction to engineering? I want to attend this program mainly to find out whether engineering is a field of interest to me, and to find out what it would feel like to be a student at MIT.</p>
<p>Also, do you do things in the ME track that wouldn’t normally be taught at school?</p>
<p>@futbol98 that’s cool! I look forward to meeting you and everyone else in June!</p>
<p>I have a question for any previous WTP girls, approximately how much spending money did you bring? Thanks!</p>
<p>@nocturnalduck:
Personally, I think it’s worth the money. The program gave me a very good sense of what mechanical engineering is like and how MIT is like. The first week was pretty much physics classes and introductions to tools etc. Some of the problem sets were pretty challenging. The second and third week we did several different groups projects and labs. Some of the labs are the actually labs the students do in their classes at MIT (I did one with Magneto-Rheological (MR) fluid). We also did a poster project in the areas we were interested in. Some of the girls who are interested in BME also got chances to get to know more about that area. The last week was the Rube-Goldberg week! It was a lot of fun (: There were also lab tours, and local company tours that show us what engineers actually do.</p>
<p>I think the program really helped all of us to decide whether or not we want to pursue engineering in college. Some people really liked MechE, some liked other fields in engineering, and some decided to do something else in college. Nonetheless, everyone loved the program! </p>
<p>Staying in the dorm and hanging out with the tutors who are current MIT students allowed us to know about the culture at MIT. </p>
<p>@mathgirl21:
I really can’t remember how much money I brought… I guess it really depends. Basically you don’t need to spend any money if you don’t go shopping or go off-campus to eat. They fed us multiple times for lunch and we had more than enough money in our techCash for the rest of the meals(the meal card you will receive that has $500 in it). Most of us had about $100 - $200 left in the card at the end =.= </p>
<p>We went shopping 2 or 3 times though… So if you want to buy clothes and other things, bring accordingly. Other than that, I would recommend bringing $20 - $50 just in case you need anything on the way.</p>
<p>@TheBalticSea: Sorry I missed your question earlier… I have no idea how many people get off waitlist every year… >.< Last year they released decision on the 6th and I got my acceptance on 14th (I just checked my emails from last year 
) So I’m guessing maybe around a week? Good luck!!</p>
<p>@firevswater, thanks! Good to know! That’s exactly what I’m looking for in my summer experience, and it’s good to know that the program really helps in deciding whether engineering should be your major, and if MIT is a good fit. If you don’t mind me asking, are you in college yet, and did you/are you planning to apply to MIT? </p>
<p>Thanks for the answers, btw 
It’s nice to know what I’m getting into.</p>
<p>I was accepted to ME too! I’m so excited to meet everyone, it’s going to be awesome! Is there anyone from the south?</p>
<p>So I’m hoping to learn a lot when I go there, but do you have quite a bit of fun time, or is it all work and no play? And though you say not getting acceptance doesn’t hinder your chances to MIT, does being accepted help?</p>
<p>Hi madi2012! There is definitely a balance of work and play! No worries! We had 3 classes every day, and we all ate dinner together at night and hung out and would all finish our problem sets together. The RAs would host movie nights, karaoke nights, and we would celebrate birthdays in the lounge upstairs. They would take us to Harvard Square for ice cream or into Boston on the weekends to go shopping, see a Red Sox game, go to Boston Commons or Gardens and visit old historical sites. We went into China town and got dim sum. They definitely took us out a lot and a lot of socializing happened in the dorm too. The program is definitely based around group projects! I made so many close friends at WTP who also got into MIT, so I’m super excited to know that I already have a nice group of girls to start off with next year. It’s not that being accepted helps your chances, it’s more about what you do at WTP. At the end of the program, the staff writes you a rec letter that you can send to up to 8 colleges. If you excel, take initiative, ask a lot of questions, volunteer at the final banquet and stuff, then you can get them to write you a really nice letter. MIT admissions staff reads this letter and it definitely acts as a bonus in your application :)</p>
<p>So would this possibly help boost a low ACT?</p>
<p>hmm I guess it depends on how low your ACT is. There isn’t any one factor that gets you into college. It’s about the whole package and CPW can act as that “icing on the cake.” It can’t save you if your app is terrible (but I doubt it is), but it can help you stand out if you already have a good app.</p>
<p>Oh oops I meant WTP. Haha too many acronyms. CPW is the campus preview weekend!</p>
<p>Do they take super scores? Even though mine is just the difference between a 30 and a 31, any little bit will help.</p>
<p>Yes, MIT does superscore, so you have a 31 in the admissions officers’ eyes. Based on this, you are in the bottom 25 percentile based on the class of 2014 admit stats. I don’t want to scare you away because again, scores aren’t everything. It really is a holistic process. It is about who you are as a person and what you will bring to the class. I’m not an admissions officer so I can’t tell you what to do but if you want to make yourself more competitive, you should probably at least attempt to retake it one more time or try the SAT. You still have many more opportunities to take it.</p>