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Anonymous wrote:Yup. DC (plausible candidate) and his two pals (stronger than DC) were rejected. Not too surprised by the DC's outcome. But at least one of his two friends was really really strong. Definitely surprised by that rejection.

Surprised by a MIT rejection?

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Anonymous wrote:A girl from Stone Ridge got in according to the class instagram page.

Athletic recruit.

Even athletic recruits meet the threshold

Student athletes at all top schools have to meet a threshold the schools have in place to ensure they can succeed academically. To clarify, MIT has great student athletes but does give admissions weight to recruits. They are interested in fielding competitive teams and even have D1 rowing. I have no issue with their recruiting and admissions policies but people sometimes get confused about MIT trying to do some fully objective review of applications.

MIT has a higher threshold for athletic recruits than usual top D1 elite/Ivy schools.

How so? Do these schools exchange notes?

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my kids bestie got in. lax recruit. she's very smart but 1540 SAT ie not perfect, no national awards. her essays probably helped. she's a great writer and that might not be the norm.

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Anonymous wrote:A girl from Stone Ridge got in according to the class instagram page.

Athletic recruit.

Even athletic recruits meet the threshold

Student athletes at all top schools have to meet a threshold the schools have in place to ensure they can succeed academically. To clarify, MIT has great student athletes but does give admissions weight to recruits. They are interested in fielding competitive teams and even have D1 rowing. I have no issue with their recruiting and admissions policies but people sometimes get confused about MIT trying to do some fully objective review of applications.

MIT has a higher threshold for athletic recruits than usual top D1 elite/Ivy schools.

They do have a higher threshold than the Ivy League schools (pretty much all the top D3 schools do for that matter). MIT typically recruits (outside of rowing) against Hopkins, Chicago, CMU, Amherst, Swarthmore, Williams, and other top D3 schools. MIT is NOT Caltech when it comes to treating sports like other ECs.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. DC (plausible candidate) and his two pals (stronger than DC) were rejected. Not too surprised by the DC's outcome. But at least one of his two friends was really really strong. Definitely surprised by that rejection.

Surprised by a MIT rejection?

Meant that in a good way on behalf of the kid. ! Of course, no one should be surprised.

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Anonymous wrote:my kids bestie got in. lax recruit. she's very smart but 1540 SAT ie not perfect, no national awards. her essays probably helped. she's a great writer and that might not be the norm.

Congrats. DC private?

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Does MIT have any traditional feeder schools? The kids I know went to Exeter.

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I don’t know any recruits who have been admitted and would caution any applicant from throwing their hat in that ring.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruits who have been admitted and would caution any applicant from throwing their hat in that ring.

why is that?

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The coaches at MIT are knowledgable and will work with recruits. They are also pretty transparent in what I've heard about when it doesn't look like a kid will get in. They don't get "slots" or anything like that.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruits who have been admitted and would caution any applicant from throwing their hat in that ring.

why is that?

May depend on sport but it doesn’t seem like MIT coaches have a lot of sway with admissions

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Rejected…

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So who is in?

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Rejected as well.

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I was on one of the few div I sports at MIT. My coach has been there since the 90s and MIT loves him. He had very little say in a recruit getting in. He knew, too, when their chances weren't great.

There weren't any feeder schools that I could tell. I had some friends from big name privates (Choate, Andover, Exeter, Riverdale) but most people I knew when to public school.