Anonymous
03/15/2026 09:41
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
-100
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.
It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.
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.
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?
Your kid was unqualified?
Anonymous
03/15/2026 09:40
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
-100
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.
It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.
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.
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?
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.
women's soccer.
its not a bird in hand. it wasn't during early round. if you wanted a bird in hand you had to go elsewhere. (although "committed to the process" is always the language). but it was a large boost.
anyway, my dd graduated already. but the soccer coach is still there and I'm familiar.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 09:38
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
-100
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.
It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.
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.
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?
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.
we've all heard about how you know this one coach in one sport who talked to your one kid. we get it.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 09:38
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
-100
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.
It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.
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.
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?
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.
DD was being recruited there. Those numbers (SAT and math sub score) were close, but higher than the recruiting bar for her sport. Not all sports have the same bar, nor the same “pull”? I wouldn’t make general statements that seem to apply to all recruits. Every school, not just MIT, the metrics needed are sport specific.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 09:27
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
-100
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.
It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.
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.
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?
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.
Ah, I see. You believe that anything short of a 100% guarantee is “no boost.” The rest of us, however, can see that even a 1-in-5 chance of admission is a substantial “boost” over a 1-in-50 chance of admission.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 08:55
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
-100
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.
It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.
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.
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?
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.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 08:47
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
our high school only gets kids in via Questbridge or MITES. we get in a couple kids a year, but only through those paths. maybe once every few years a swimmer.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 08:42
Subject: Re:MIT Regular Decision
how do i help kid move past being waitlisted? was so excited about gtech prior to this, now questioning everything and very upset....
Anonymous
03/15/2026 08:31
Subject: Re:MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rejected. Had coach support, which kept some sliver of hope alive, but we knew it would be tough.
If you don’t mind me asking, what were DCs stats? DD is headed up for junior day soon and not sure how much of a long shot this is going to be.
If coach is experienced (there for awhile), approx 30% of ones they offer up get admitted.
That's not true. My coach of 30+ years says far more athletes that he endorses get rejected than accepted. No where near 30%
depends on sport at MIT
My sport and coach is one of the only division 1 sports. He's a decorated athlete and professor, highly respected. Our team is highly decorated and we just won an alumni donation challenge like we do most years. If it isn't happening for my sport, it's not happening for the others either.
Sorry but you're wrong. At least for football and basketball.
this person has posted before. apparently her son didn't get a spot. but sports are handled differently at all colleges, including MIT. MIT wins their division in several sports and it doesn't happen by accident. also, female sports (some) are easier to get admitted to than male sports. also, if you've done MIT and are an athlete, that's a big hook
Anonymous
03/15/2026 08:02
Subject: Re:MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rejected. Had coach support, which kept some sliver of hope alive, but we knew it would be tough.
If you don’t mind me asking, what were DCs stats? DD is headed up for junior day soon and not sure how much of a long shot this is going to be.
If coach is experienced (there for awhile), approx 30% of ones they offer up get admitted.
That's not true. My coach of 30+ years says far more athletes that he endorses get rejected than accepted. No where near 30%
depends on sport at MIT
My sport and coach is one of the only division 1 sports. He's a decorated athlete and professor, highly respected. Our team is highly decorated and we just won an alumni donation challenge like we do most years. If it isn't happening for my sport, it's not happening for the others either.
Sorry but you're wrong. At least for football and basketball.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 07:59
Subject: Re:MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rejected. Had coach support, which kept some sliver of hope alive, but we knew it would be tough.
If you don’t mind me asking, what were DCs stats? DD is headed up for junior day soon and not sure how much of a long shot this is going to be.
If coach is experienced (there for awhile), approx 30% of ones they offer up get admitted.
That's not true. My coach of 30+ years says far more athletes that he endorses get rejected than accepted. No where near 30%
DC is in, and the 30-40% lines up based on the numbers coach said he was supporting vs who got in.
Anonymous
03/15/2026 00:04
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
of course they recruit. this is nonsense.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 23:56
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
-100
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.
It's not a huge boost, but it's a tip and with so many ultraqualified applicants, that tip can determine who gets in.
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.
100% incorrect. My kid is a recruited athlete at MIT, why do you keep posting stuff that you have no clue about?
Anonymous
03/14/2026 23:54
Subject: MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT, the fairest, middle classes friendly and true merit based school. Good luck to everyone.
Esp if you're a female or athlete!
Nah. All the kids win their spot by academic merits.
It's hard to explain the demographics if it is purely merit.
Please elaborate.
Anonymous
03/14/2026 23:51
Subject: Re:MIT Regular Decision
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rejected. Had coach support, which kept some sliver of hope alive, but we knew it would be tough.
If you don’t mind me asking, what were DCs stats? DD is headed up for junior day soon and not sure how much of a long shot this is going to be.
If coach is experienced (there for awhile), approx 30% of ones they offer up get admitted.
Again, this is incorrect.