Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 10:03     Subject: Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 10:02     Subject: Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:also an alum. my kid was rejected - smarter than me by a mile, more accomplished, higher stats, better ECs. I am honestly a bit relieved because kid would have gone and I don't know if I want that life for them.


I knew my kid had no chance and I was glad. But I was also glad we could afford to pay a pointless application fee so MIT could tell him no.

(I have a brother who likes to brag that he talked our nephew out of applying to MIT, and that nephew was an even less-likely admit than my kid. My brother went to college forty years ago and just can't seem to grasp how much things have changed, not that I think perfectly intelligent nephew would ever have gotten in to MIT)
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 09:59     Subject: Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:also an alum. my kid was rejected - smarter than me by a mile, more accomplished, higher stats, better ECs. I am honestly a bit relieved because kid would have gone and I don't know if I want that life for them.

And what kind of life is that?


It is well known that MIT undergrad is pretty cutthroat...

sounds lovely.

Obviously, schools like these are prestigious, but they sound miserable.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 09:56     Subject: Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:also an alum. my kid was rejected - smarter than me by a mile, more accomplished, higher stats, better ECs. I am honestly a bit relieved because kid would have gone and I don't know if I want that life for them.

And what kind of life is that?


It is well known that MIT undergrad is pretty cutthroat...
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 09:10     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Kid didn’t apply but just curious. What get the kids who are admitted in to MIT? I mean non athletes. Obviously there are so many high stats kids who are rejected.


Luck


… and possibly good statements.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:56     Subject: Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:51     Subject: Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:Holy smokes nobody got in. Should’ve got your kids into fencing!


Fencing or rowing or diving FTW
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:49     Subject: Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:also an alum. my kid was rejected - smarter than me by a mile, more accomplished, higher stats, better ECs. I am honestly a bit relieved because kid would have gone and I don't know if I want that life for them.


My DD (UVA) spent last summer in an internship program with a bunch of MIT students. They all told her they hated it there. No idea why.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:43     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:Kid didn’t apply but just curious. What get the kids who are admitted in to MIT? I mean non athletes. Obviously there are so many high stats kids who are rejected.


Luck
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:29     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Kid didn’t apply but just curious. What get the kids who are admitted in to MIT? I mean non athletes. Obviously there are so many high stats kids who are rejected.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:29     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes, 6:28pm according to their Instagram page.


Lame. Should’ve been at 1:59.

and @2 sec, and 653 ms
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:28     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes, 6:28pm according to their Instagram page.


Lame. Should’ve been at 1:59.


Do you mean 1:57?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:25     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, 6:28pm according to their Instagram page.


Lame. Should’ve been at 1:59.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:24     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
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?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2023 08:23     Subject: Re:Is MIT RD decision coming out today?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Some poster on college confidential was going on for a good couple of hours that athletes were to blame for kid's denial. Even happens to MIT.