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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about for DS who is interested in MIT? [/quote]
Play a sport well[/quote]

For MiT? Uh no.[/quote]

If you believe that MIT doesn’t have favorable admission rates for athletes, you’re in denial. [/quote]

it’s Division III![/quote]

DP. MIT is Div 3 for all sports except crew (Div 1). It's not about getting recruited for a sport or for being a cheerleader, but rather that you are able to do something else extremely well on top of the STEM stuff. Saying MIT has favorable admissions rates for great athletes is a little like saying MIT has favorable admissions rates for teens who have published novels or played at Carnegie Hall.

No one can tell you what to do because for your DS to do it well enough and come across as genuine in essays and the interview, it actually needs to be something he really enjoys (like stuff they spend time daydreaming about, reading about for pleasure during school breaks, etc.), not something chosen for a statistical advantage. I don't know if I'm saying this clearly, but the process should be that he already has some passion he would spend time on anyway, and any awards or leadership positions are almost a byproduct of him looking for opportunities to test, improve or demonstrate his skill in that arena. What you seem to be asking for is the reverse, where a kid identifies an award or leadership position and then work towards that as the goal. I'm sure some people manage to brute-force it that way to get in, I just don't know how that works.[/quote]

Actually it's also not div 3 for fencing because there is only one fencing division. I was in athletics at MIT and coaches can make recommendations to the admissions committee but it really is only a suggestion. You can be a gold medalist or George Steinbrenner (owner of the Yankees but also the son of a famous alumni that gave a lot of money to MIT) and still not have the stats to be admitted. [/quote]

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