Does top colleges like MIT take students from Langley on academic grounds.

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I have seen Langley high students getting in to Ivys, MIT, Stanford for their sports achievements. How about on academic merit ? Didn’t see any student in last 5+ years from Langley in MIT based on academic merit.

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen Langley high students getting in to Ivys, MIT, Stanford for their sports achievements. How about on academic merit ? Didn’t see any student in last 5+ years from Langley in MIT based on academic merit.

What did you look at to determine this?

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LHS rarely sends kids to MIT. Why are you focused on one college, OP?

[Anonymous]

MIT grad here. There aren't feeder schools for MIT. MIT takes more from TJ, but IMO not enough to justify going to TJ with the cut throat competition.

You must be the absolute best student at your school, almost perfect SAT scores, take the hardest classes, be a leader, be unusual and have national awards for even a chance in the "lottery" to get in at MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:MIT grad here. There aren't feeder schools for MIT. MIT takes more from TJ, but IMO not enough to justify going to TJ with the cut throat competition.

You must be the absolute best student at your school, almost perfect SAT scores, take the hardest classes, be a leader, be unusual and have national awards for even a chance in the "lottery" to get in at MIT.

Agree on all of this.

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Anonymous wrote:MIT grad here. There aren't feeder schools for MIT. MIT takes more from TJ, but IMO not enough to justify going to TJ with the cut throat competition.

You must be the absolute best student at your school, almost perfect SAT scores, take the hardest classes, be a leader, be unusual and have national awards for even a chance in the "lottery" to get in at MIT.

Another MIT grad here. Yep. My guess is the sports is the cherry on top of an academically perfect student that puts them into the lottery.

Luckily for me, I was part of the GenX slacker generation, so I had an impressive, but nowhere near perfect, academic record and still got in. I’d have no chance with the same application now.

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Also - if you’re that determined to get your kid into MIT - move to “fly over” country (not a college town or one with strong tech/biotech/chem industry - i.e., where a very low percentage of the population has PhDs or other advanced degrees) and have your kid take the hardest classes - virtually if necessary and rely on geographic diversity.

Slacker GenX grad here - who likely benefited from the geographic diversity aspect.

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No

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen Langley high students getting in to Ivys, MIT, Stanford for their sports achievements. How about on academic merit ? Didn’t see any student in last 5+ years from Langley in MIT based on academic merit.

As opposed to?

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The rationale I've heard from a top college admissions guy is basically that TJ already has the top 10% of the class.

A hefty number of Langley grads go off to UVA (used to be about 10% of Langley senior class would be accepted to UVA, not sure if this number has held up recently). But UVA is at the top of the list in bang for buck.

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Anonymous wrote:Also - if you’re that determined to get your kid into MIT - move to “fly over” country (not a college town or one with strong tech/biotech/chem industry - i.e., where a very low percentage of the population has PhDs or other advanced degrees) and have your kid take the hardest classes - virtually if necessary and rely on geographic diversity.

Slacker GenX grad here - who likely benefited from the geographic diversity aspect.

Imagining people actually deciding to pack up and move to <insert random non-college town in a state in the middle of nowhere> in order to increase their odds of their kid getting into MIT. Are people really that crazy and intent on getting their kids into Ivies?

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Anonymous wrote:Also - if you’re that determined to get your kid into MIT - move to “fly over” country (not a college town or one with strong tech/biotech/chem industry - i.e., where a very low percentage of the population has PhDs or other advanced degrees) and have your kid take the hardest classes - virtually if necessary and rely on geographic diversity.

Slacker GenX grad here - who likely benefited from the geographic diversity aspect.

Imagining people actually deciding to pack up and move to <insert random non-college town in a state in the middle of nowhere> in order to increase their odds of their kid getting into MIT. Are people really that crazy and intent on getting their kids into Ivies?

Absolutely! Have you been reading DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LHS rarely sends kids to MIT. Why are you focused on one college, OP?

No one school sends kids to MIT with any real frequency, except for maybe the very top STEM magnet schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also - if you’re that determined to get your kid into MIT - move to “fly over” country (not a college town or one with strong tech/biotech/chem industry - i.e., where a very low percentage of the population has PhDs or other advanced degrees) and have your kid take the hardest classes - virtually if necessary and rely on geographic diversity.

Slacker GenX grad here - who likely benefited from the geographic diversity aspect.

Imagining people actually deciding to pack up and move to <insert random non-college town in a state in the middle of nowhere> in order to increase their odds of their kid getting into MIT. Are people really that crazy and intent on getting their kids into Ivies?

Absolutely! Have you been reading DCUM?

Yes. No one does this. It isn't a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Also - if you’re that determined to get your kid into MIT - move to “fly over” country (not a college town or one with strong tech/biotech/chem industry - i.e., where a very low percentage of the population has PhDs or other advanced degrees) and have your kid take the hardest classes - virtually if necessary and rely on geographic diversity.

Slacker GenX grad here - who likely benefited from the geographic diversity aspect.

Ha I grew up in one of those middle of nowhere towns and I credit my MIT acceptance to the fact I got a scholarship to boarding school and did well there for my last two years of high school. I know part of my acceptance was because of my essay on my robotics club experience (there was a handwritten note on my acceptance letter) and that didn’t exist in the no name town I grew up it. I think MIT does a pretty good job of leveling the playing field with regard to expectations but seriously folks: it’s a lottery and your kid will get as good an education at many many other schools.