MIT in 15 mins
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| A girl from Stone Ridge got in according to the class instagram page. |
Anonymous
| College Confidential now has two people reporting getting accepted. |
Anonymous
| Missouri Institue of Tech, right? Accepted |
Anonymous
| A few top kids I know from DMV area - all rejected. |
Anonymous
Athletic recruit. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
Even athletic recruits meet the threshold |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
LOL! Today’s blog post from MIT Admissions: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-regular-action-decisions-now-available-online-7/ |
Anonymous
Sure! -- but they don't have win the Regeneron talent search or USAMO! They can get in with just grades and scores. |
Anonymous
What sport? Also, we've heard from a few sources that MIT only considers athletic recruits who meet the same admission requirements as other students. Once someone meets those requirements, then their status as a high level recruit might be the thing to push them into the admit category. But MIT doesn't lower it's admission standards for athletic recruits like many other schools do. True? |
Anonymous
| A kid in Texas got in. |
Anonymous
+1. If you're in at MIT, you're amazing. That's it, that's all. |
Anonymous
MIT and Caltech are exceptions. Athletes might get a little help but not much and they also don’t get the pretend or likely letter process. Someone who chooses to roll the dice for a spot on the crew team MIT for example is probably giving up a sure spot at Harvard. At an Ivy or a Nescac the GPA/rigor/scores might be the same but athletes can count their sport as basically all their EC credit. Plus they have the advantage of knowing if they will get in before they choose where to ED/SCEA/REA. |
Anonymous
MIT has a higher threshold for athletic recruits than usual top D1 elite/Ivy schools. |