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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.[/quote]

Esp if you're a female or athlete![/quote]
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Mit athletes get no admissions boost whatsoever from
Coaches. Yeah, admissions gets a notice who the coach supports but 2/3 of those kids still won’t get in. The 1/3 that do are because they are qualified. No one unqualified is getting into MIT no matter what your athletic abilities are.[/quote]

It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.[/quote]

No one gets in unless qualified. No one. Coaches know ther hands are tied and tell athletes that: no guarantees, no true prereads, no commitments, and if you want to get security, we understand but go elsewhere. They also tell students they will want a 1580 sat with a minimum 790 in math. [/quote]

100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?[/quote]

Recruited? Or
Admitted? This info is directly from a long time coach there who recruited my kid (kid stopped interacting after understanding there was no guarantee). Teammate committed to swim at JHU when the same thing was told to her. Bird in the hand. So this came from swim
Coaches at mit. Who told you differently -
Identify the MIT coaches. [/quote]

Mine recruited, admitted and currently attending so I’m limiting some things.

Female, her HS team was nationally ranked and she had multiple D1 offers (not Ivy)
780/780 so test scores were fine
4.6 GPA, 12 or so AP classes if I recall correctly mostly 5’s some 4’s

Coach said that they were supposed to tell her 50-65% chance of getting in but the coach also said that they didn’t see many rejected with her academics

Coach started talking seriously only after she gave them her SAT score which was the summer after her sophomore year. Coach asked for her junior schedule at that time and asked if it was the hardest available. Never asked for any additions or changes.
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But you are glossing over the fact that they wouldn't even talk until the test scores were in. That tells you exactly what you need to know. Sports do absolutely nothing. [/quote]

It has been repeated as nauseam that there is no relief on academic requirements. But if you have the academics 65% is a whole lot better than 3%[/quote]

Gosh people really are dense on here. The reason they won't talk until scores are in is because they have no say in the admissions process. [/quote]

Dense it what you see in the mirror.

They don’t talk prior because they have a minimum bar set by admissions which they need to meet. Once that bar is met getting on the coaches list takes you from 3% to roughly 50-60% and the coach picks who goes on the list. Any applicant would love that boost.[/quote]

No it doesn’t- no MIT coach is getting in 50-60% of the applicants that would play a sport there. None.[/quote]

You might not like it but they do get 50-60% of the kids that they support. That is the way that it works because otherwise they would not be able to field competitive teams and competitive teams are important to MIT. My family has went through the process while you are arguing back because you don't want to accept the reality. Spend a bit of time on CC or just doing some basic research. It won't make you happy but maybe you be better able to accept that MIT recruits hard and that athletic recruits get huge bumps even if they don't get the guaranteed admissions that some schools give.[/quote]

Name the coach and sport at MIT who said this. Directly contrary to what we were told.[/quote]

Why would I do that? I will tell you that the coach has been at MIT for a long time, knows the system better than and coaches a program that is among the best at MIT.

If what I have told you is contrary to what you were told what I can tell you is that your child wasn't high on the coaches list relative others in their sport. The coach was just keeping you around in case they lost the people that they actually wanted.

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