Pls share your MIT acceptance stories?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every one of these threads should request posters to specify whether the applicant is an athlete or not. I feel very annoyed by recruited athletes getting a boost.

+1

Spots at schools like MIT are too valuable for the country for recruiting to tilt the scales on athletes with little to no pro potential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone's DC get in without national awards?

My son got in. Never participated in any national awards. No APs and no IB.
He scored 1600 on the SAT in one seating and 36 on the ACT in one seating. ZERO ECs or National awards…

Can you share how your DS approached the application? Like essays, and such?

What do you think got him into MIT?

As mentioned above, he is a way above avg kid in math. His essay was about theoretical math…..he talked about Millennium Prize Problems and his determination to solve the Hodge conjecture. I doubt any AO understood anything about what he wrote….he didnt care…….clearly someone in the MIT math dept read it…..he also got an interview w Princeton (applied RD) and instead of the typical alumni interview, it was just a long call with someone from the Math dept. it was supposed to be -30 mins but it lasted almost 90 mins….pretty confident he will get in. He only applied to 4 schools. 3 in the US and Oxford.

Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone's DC get in without national awards?

My son got in. Never participated in any national awards. No APs and no IB.
He scored 1600 on the SAT in one seating and 36 on the ACT in one seating. ZERO ECs or National awards…

Can you share how your DS approached the application? Like essays, and such?

What do you think got him into MIT?

As mentioned above, he is an above avg kid in math. His essay was about theoretical math…. ..he talked about Millennium Prize Problems and his determination to solve the Hodge conjecture. I doubt any AO understood anything about what he wrote….he didnt care…….clearly someone in the MIT math dept read it…..he also got an interview w Princeton (applied RD) and instead of the typical alumni interview, it was just a long call with someone from the Math dept. it was supposed to be -30 mins but it lasted almost 90 mins….pretty confident he will get in. He only applied to 4 schools. 3 in the US and Oxford.

Congrats!

BTW, he applied to Oxford with zero APs… long story…. but he aced the MAT before the interview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone's DC get in without national awards?

My son got in. Never participated in any national awards. No APs and no IB.
He scored 1600 on the SAT in one seating and 36 on the ACT in one seating. ZERO ECs or National awards…

Zero ECs?

He just sits all day around trying to solve the Hodge conjecture?

[Anonymous]

Zero ECs that mattered…he plays piano, soccer and practices BJJ. But nothing extraordinary like hundreds of the ECs I’ve seen here…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zero ECs that mattered…he plays piano, soccer and practices BJJ. But nothing extraordinary like hundreds of the ECs I’ve seen here…

Your kid sounds amazing and congrats. I do think some of your posts are hiding the ball. You say he got in with no APs and no ECs, when he actually has coursework that is equivalent or better than APs, and he has some traditional ECs and on top of that spends his time doing theoretical math in a way he can concretely prove, which he basically can write about as an EC and did. It just shows that the rest of us need to read posts knowing we are unlikely to be getting the full story when there is what seems to be an outlier story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every one of these threads should request posters to specify whether the applicant is an athlete or not. I feel very annoyed by recruited athletes getting a boost.

+1

Spots at schools like MIT are too valuable for the country for recruiting to tilt the scales on athletes with little to no pro potential.

That an individual excels on the field and in the classroom indicates that they are bringing something extra to the table. It's not "tilting the scales" it is seeing the entire person and valuing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zero ECs that mattered…he plays piano, soccer and practices BJJ. But nothing extraordinary like hundreds of the ECs I’ve seen here…

Your kid sounds amazing and congrats. I do think some of your posts are hiding the ball. You say he got in with no APs and no ECs, when he actually has coursework that is equivalent or better than APs, and he has some traditional ECs and on top of that spends his time doing theoretical math in a way he can concretely prove, which he basically can write about as an EC and did. It just shows that the rest of us need to read posts knowing we are unlikely to be getting the full story when there is what seems to be an outlier story.

The outlier is this kid is obviously a math genius. These types of kids do not need Crazy ECs or a “hook”. Their hook is their brain. This is not normal. Only schools like the ones he applied to (MIT, Princeton, etc) would see through an application like that. I bet that if this kid applied to another t20 outside these top Math programs, he might not have had a chance with the lack of amazing ECs and AOs who dont understand the subject…