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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT AOs are not myopic. They want admits who will graduate. MIT has a fairly broad range of required courses for everyone. A one trick pony math kid who can't read literature, write essays, take 3 nonmajor science courses is not what they want. Sure sime kids take economics so they can have mathy "humanities" but even so they need to absorb principles.  [/quote]

PP, I understand what you’re saying and largely agree, though I suspect you’ll get a lot of pushback from people with more one-dimensional thinking. I’d like to point out that the main reasons people care so much about MIT—especially Asian immigrants and middle- or lower-middle-class families with academically strong children—are:

1. MIT does not consider legacy status.
2. While MIT does recruit athletes, it rigorously evaluates academic ability; athletic talent alone is not enough for admission.

I believe most of the top schools in the US look broader intelligences than just math.[/quote]

As to 2, there is a bar but you don’t know what percentage of applicants cross over that bar - it could be much much higher than the admitted percentage. In that case the athlete advantage is significant [/quote]

It is. We know that most of them would not get in without being an athlete. [/quote]

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