Is MIT RD decision coming out today?

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MIT is looking for innovation and inventiveness. By-the-book high stats won't get you in. And of course comp sci and engineering majors are capped, doesn't matter that they don't admit directly to the major.

This is literally true for every T50 school. It's interesting that when kids are denied at MIT, it's "just a tough admit," but when high stat kids are denied at other top schools, it's yield protection or some kind of discrimination.

Because it’s kind of true?

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You do not understand yield protection if you are spouting off, in this case.

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MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:It's true that kids are applying to the same T30 schools and the problem is there are more qualified kids than seats. Everyone can't be admitted and each school has their own institutional priorities. How is that hard to understand?

One of the reasons there are so many qualified kids is that grade and SAT inflation that has made it difficult to discern the strength of one applicant from another.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy smokes nobody got in. Should’ve got your kids into fencing!

Fencing or rowing or diving FTW

Or football!
That's a great way in.

At MIT? I would appreciate if people who know nothing about certain schools would stop posting. You are embarrassing yourselves.

Ok, you're being an a$$ but does MIT not have football? I know kids who were recruited to play there over the past 2 years--as in they posted on Instagram "committed to play football at MIT". My own kids are in lower high school.

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Anonymous wrote:MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.

+1

I know one athlete who was accepted EA. 1590 SAT. 4.5GPA at a very rigorous school. Impressive ECs beyond athletics. Very, very smart kid, and also an exceptional athlete.

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Ok, I know a kid recruited to play football at MIT.
Potomac school 2 years ago.
He (and all their recruits) are just as smart and qualified as the rest of the school but this puts them over the admissions top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.

I get that but doing a ridiculous niche sport gets them over the final hurdle

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Anonymous wrote:MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.

MIT athletes are great students too but this comment is just wrong if you are solely talking about test scores and GPA (which I don't think is right to focus on too much anyway but is what I think PP meant).
MIT goes to great length to say they don't provide likely letters to athletes (like the Ivy League, Hopkins, and Chicago will) and that they don't have select athlete slots but being a recruited athlete is part of the review. You should definitely not confuse MIT with CalTech, which treats being a basketball player basically the same as a violinist and hasn't had a winning season in memory.
Being a strong athlete is a great way to get into MIT (and almost any other really high academic D3 school other than CalTech) and if your kids are really recruited, they'll talk quite a bit more with the coach about approaching admissions too.

MIT and many of their alums care a lot about competitive sports teams and do what is needed to field great teams. You'd probably recognize the Koch name for example, which has helped their basketball program quite a bit (one brother even endowed the title of the MIT basketball coach).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.

MIT athletes are great students too but this comment is just wrong if you are solely talking about test scores and GPA (which I don't think is right to focus on too much anyway but is what I think PP meant).
MIT goes to great length to say they don't provide likely letters to athletes (like the Ivy League, Hopkins, and Chicago will) and that they don't have select athlete slots but being a recruited athlete is part of the review. You should definitely not confuse MIT with CalTech, which treats being a basketball player basically the same as a violinist and hasn't had a winning season in memory.
Being a strong athlete is a great way to get into MIT (and almost any other really high academic D3 school other than CalTech) and if your kids are really recruited, they'll talk quite a bit more with the coach about approaching admissions too.

MIT and many of their alums care a lot about competitive sports teams and do what is needed to field great teams. You'd probably recognize the Koch name for example, which has helped their basketball program quite a bit (one brother even endowed the title of the MIT basketball coach).

As long as you recognize that none of this happens without the proper admission stats, then we are on the same page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.

MIT athletes are great students too but this comment is just wrong if you are solely talking about test scores and GPA (which I don't think is right to focus on too much anyway but is what I think PP meant).
MIT goes to great length to say they don't provide likely letters to athletes (like the Ivy League, Hopkins, and Chicago will) and that they don't have select athlete slots but being a recruited athlete is part of the review. You should definitely not confuse MIT with CalTech, which treats being a basketball player basically the same as a violinist and hasn't had a winning season in memory.
Being a strong athlete is a great way to get into MIT (and almost any other really high academic D3 school other than CalTech) and if your kids are really recruited, they'll talk quite a bit more with the coach about approaching admissions too.

MIT and many of their alums care a lot about competitive sports teams and do what is needed to field great teams. You'd probably recognize the Koch name for example, which has helped their basketball program quite a bit (one brother even endowed the title of the MIT basketball coach).

As long as you recognize that none of this happens without the proper admission stats, then we are on the same page.

What do you mean by proper stats? It is an advantage to be a recruited athlete period. A recruited football player can get in with lower stats than my engineering applicant who is not being recruited to play football. Which is kind of rediculous considering how bad the team is - compared to Harvard, for example. Why should there be a prefernce at all? Like no one is donating money because of MIT football.

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any DC kids admitted this year?

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There’s a guy on YouTube who has perfect SAT and got into MIT to play tennis. Ironically he was rejected from 3 ivies, Duke (with sibling legacy) and waitlisted at Harvard. So admissions is extremely random and he could’ve gotten into any school off academics alone

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What do you mean by proper stats? It is an advantage to be a recruited athlete period. A recruited football player can get in with lower stats than my engineering applicant who is not being recruited to play football. Which is kind of ridiculous considering how bad the team is - compared to Harvard, for example. Why should there be a prefernce at all? Like no one is donating money because of MIT football

Because sports are an institutional priority. Like all IP's, it may not be important to you, but it's something the university values and feels adds to the student experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.

MIT athletes are great students too but this comment is just wrong if you are solely talking about test scores and GPA (which I don't think is right to focus on too much anyway but is what I think PP meant).
MIT goes to great length to say they don't provide likely letters to athletes (like the Ivy League, Hopkins, and Chicago will) and that they don't have select athlete slots but being a recruited athlete is part of the review. You should definitely not confuse MIT with CalTech, which treats being a basketball player basically the same as a violinist and hasn't had a winning season in memory.
Being a strong athlete is a great way to get into MIT (and almost any other really high academic D3 school other than CalTech) and if your kids are really recruited, they'll talk quite a bit more with the coach about approaching admissions too.

MIT and many of their alums care a lot about competitive sports teams and do what is needed to field great teams. You'd probably recognize the Koch name for example, which has helped their basketball program quite a bit (one brother even endowed the title of the MIT basketball coach).

As long as you recognize that none of this happens without the proper admission stats, then we are on the same page.

Why? Because you said so? What are proper admissions stats?

There is a range of stats for accepted students. If an athlete is at the lower end of the range then undoubtedly there are rejected students with higher stats. So is that a compromise or not?

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What do you mean by proper stats? It is an advantage to be a recruited athlete period. A recruited football player can get in with lower stats than my engineering applicant who is not being recruited to play football. Which is kind of ridiculous considering how bad the team is - compared to Harvard, for example. Why should there be a prefernce at all? Like no one is donating money because of MIT football

Because sports are an institutional priority. Like all IP's, it may not be important to you, but it's something the university values and feels adds to the student experience.

I hope you don’t complain about legacies or other hooks then.