MIT in 15 mins

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Anonymous wrote:I know of a kid who was admitted to MIT due to DEI. Terrible at math, but a tech major.

Sure you do

So doubtful - for so many reasons, including that they are not TO.

I heard that they buy high sat scores from lower income areas m/high minority areas to market to them to help DEI. Sound about right - I know other schools do that.

"High" is subjective for DEI.

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Anonymous wrote:500 kids per class at TJ. I think it averages 4-5 MIT admits per year. They had several this year but ED not sure about RD.

EA maybe, MIT has no ED

Probably EA. My kid is not an MIT applicant so not up to speed. Just know a handful got in early.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of a kid who was admitted to MIT due to DEI. Terrible at math, but a tech major.

Sure you do

So doubtful - for so many reasons, including that they are not TO.

I heard that they buy high sat scores from lower income areas m/high minority areas to market to them to help DEI. Sound about right - I know other schools do that.

"High" is subjective for DEI.

Black girl from my son's school is in with a 1550. I'm sure you will find a way to call that "subjective"

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

TJ

Stuy.

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Anonymous wrote:500 kids per class at TJ. I think it averages 4-5 MIT admits per year. They had several this year but ED not sure about RD.

Wrong info

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Anonymous wrote:500 kids per class at TJ. I think it averages 4-5 MIT admits per year. They had several this year but ED not sure about RD.

Wrong info

Last year they had 3 - Blair had 7. It it a self reported so assume the numbers might be slightly higher.

So 4-5 a year seems about right.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

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

Athletic recruit.

To MIT? LOL.

Yes, it happens. Local girl just announced her commitment there for Field Hockey.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:500 kids per class at TJ. I think it averages 4-5 MIT admits per year. They had several this year but ED not sure about RD.

Wrong info

Last year they had 3 - Blair had 7. It it a self reported so assume the numbers might be slightly higher.

So 4-5 a year seems about right.

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

Blair and TJ populate their ranks by skimming the top kids from every other h.s. school in two of the richest counties in the country. So sure, they get a lot of kids into MIT.

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Coach told this kid that he nominates 6 for acceptance, and on average 4 are accepted each year. So, clearly if you are truly getting recruited such that you apply to MIT EA, your odds of acceptance are dramatically higher than the general populace.

Comparing people who are nominated for a spot on an athletic team by an MIT coach to the "general populace" is unfair. To get that nomination you've already shown yourself to be in the top 5% of high school students at your sport nationwide, and passed an academic prescreening where someone vets your GPA, rigor, scores, and other extracurriculars. Of course students who are in the top 5% nationally in a competitive EC, and who have high GPA, rigor, scores, essays, recommendations, etc . . . are going to be admitted at a higher rate than the general populace as a whole.

That isn't to say that being an athlete doesn't carry some weight. But a fair comparison might be to students who are invited to take AIME (top 5% of students who compete in AMC 12) or students who get to the platinum level on USACO (top 5.5%) who also have top grades and other scores etc . . .

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Neighbor's kid got in but is going to Stanford instead. The kid is a genius at math.

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Interesting the number of sports recruits to MIT. A friend’s son got in for a D3 sport. Good applicant but not tip top scores. Some unique ECs.

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Coach told this kid that he nominates 6 for acceptance, and on average 4 are accepted each year. So, clearly if you are truly getting recruited such that you apply to MIT EA, your odds of acceptance are dramatically higher than the general populace.

Comparing people who are nominated for a spot on an athletic team by an MIT coach to the "general populace" is unfair. To get that nomination you've already shown yourself to be in the top 5% of high school students at your sport nationwide, and passed an academic prescreening where someone vets your GPA, rigor, scores, and other extracurriculars. Of course students who are in the top 5% nationally in a competitive EC, and who have high GPA, rigor, scores, essays, recommendations, etc . . . are going to be admitted at a higher rate than the general populace as a whole.

That isn't to say that being an athlete doesn't carry some weight. But a fair comparison might be to students who are invited to take AIME (top 5% of students who compete in AMC 12) or students who get to the platinum level on USACO (top 5.5%) who also have top grades and other scores etc . . .

I assume you are looking at the statistic that says 5.9% of all high school basketball players go on to play college basketball.

However, I don't think even this kid would think they are in the top 5.9% of basketball players...more like top 10% - 15%. The fact of the matter is there are many players that are better than this kid, but not D1 (or maybe D2) caliber...but they do not have the grades and Stats for MIT or other academic D3 schools.

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Coach told this kid that he nominates 6 for acceptance, and on average 4 are accepted each year. So, clearly if you are truly getting recruited such that you apply to MIT EA, your odds of acceptance are dramatically higher than the general populace.

Comparing people who are nominated for a spot on an athletic team by an MIT coach to the "general populace" is unfair. To get that nomination you've already shown yourself to be in the top 5% of high school students at your sport nationwide, and passed an academic prescreening where someone vets your GPA, rigor, scores, and other extracurriculars. Of course students who are in the top 5% nationally in a competitive EC, and who have high GPA, rigor, scores, essays, recommendations, etc . . . are going to be admitted at a higher rate than the general populace as a whole.

That isn't to say that being an athlete doesn't carry some weight. But a fair comparison might be to students who are invited to take AIME (top 5% of students who compete in AMC 12) or students who get to the platinum level on USACO (top 5.5%) who also have top grades and other scores etc . . .

MIT coach doesn't care much about this. Said nice if you have something impressive to show as "gravy".

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting the number of sports recruits to MIT. A friend’s son got in for a D3 sport. Good applicant but not tip top scores. Some unique ECs.

Class of 2028 for MIT sports recruits:
SJC for men’s lacrosse
Stone Ridge for field hockey

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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.

Why did you carve out rowing in your comment?