Did anyone from DMV get into MIT this Fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp whose daughter was accepted here:

Private school is reason for few AP classes. I am probably talking her down because I read these boards and (wrongly) have compared her to the kids on here. Plus, her friends have been pressured about college for years and we really tried to stay away from that. Based on her ACT score with few hours prep and grades in classes, she is intelligent. She just isn't one of these TJ kids I read about or science Olympiad winners.

Her EC are mostly yearbook. Junior editor last year and now editor. She spends too much time on it. She has tried various sports but was never that great. But, to her credit, she did put herself out there by trying many.

She is interested in hiking, math, and graphic design. Plan is degree in engineering and some architecture courses.

Maybe they focused more on the holistic process this year. She will do well because she is a hard worker. Assume her teacher recommendations were powerful. Although I have told people, she has kept the news quiet.

Congratulations to your daughter! I am sure she will be very successful there.

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Anonymous wrote:"DMV" is local African-American vernacular for the area. If you don't know this term, you clearly don't know any black people or listen to local black radio stations.

Look at the website for 93.9 FM:
https://kysdc.com/

They have an entire section called "DMV News" and subsections: "The DMV" "DMV Music" "DMV's Own" etc etc etc.

Donnie Simpson and Russ Parr - "The Real Sound Of The DMV"


My white in-laws in MoCo never use the term. I'm a transplant. I used the term once and they were so confused, they thought I needed to get a new license. LOL.

So basically white people who use it are poseurs.

I'd be curious to hear from the Black PP above about this fairly insane comment.

For my part, I'll just say that it's always jarring to hear things this --- people who didn't even know "DMV" was a term try to immediately pivot to gatekeeping it. It reminds me of the white parents who laughed when they heard what school my white kid attended and said "you don't LOOK like the parent of a kid at that school" or the parent who -- apparently in all seriousness -- asked my kid if his Black teammates "make fun it him" when he heard that my kid played for a sports club in PG county.

Many White people who are uncomfortable around Black people seem to assume that they would not be accepted by them. When they hear that white people can interact comfortably with Black people, they assume that those whites are somehow posing or tying themselves in knots to fit in rather than the obvious explanation that most Black people interact with whites on average much more than the reverse, particularly at work, so they are used to it. My experience of my family being the only white family in a situation has been that it's a complete, total non-event. We had no need to try to fit in or act differently or pose. It's just not a thing for white people in majority black situations. I think there's actually a term for this....

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Anonymous wrote:Why are all these people calling this area the DMV. Do you know what that means?

District Maryland Virginia...very commonly called DMV

Only by transplants and not natives.

I disagree to everyone outside of this area the DMV is the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Now I am wondering what District Maryland Virginia locals call the Department of Motor Vehicles, if not DMV. And if DMV, how do the locals distinguish DMV 1 from DMV 2? It’s one of those mysteries of life the enquiring minds need to know.

In MD it is officially called the MVA. Motor Vehicle Administration. Not sure about DC and V.