MIT (2024-2025)

[long spruce]

So like not that impressive compared to building a full electric car, but I was proud

[fallow cliff]

it does show ingenuity though

[haughty token]

Should I use FTC as part of mine? Like I won design and programming awards and did everything myself, but it's an EC

[long spruce]

Sure yeah

I wish I had included all the swerve drivetrain code I wrote in my maker portfolio

[fallow cliff]

but it's an EC
do they say not to do that?

[long spruce]

Since that took forever

[haughty token]

No I was just unsure if that meant anything, like maybe they were looking for self-driven technical projects

[fallow cliff]

youre fine submitting it then im pretty sure ive seen profiles on youtube related to FTC

sio2 what were ur stats?

[haughty token]

Ooh I derived equations for swerve kinematics and built a 3dp swerve module and coded it. Never ran it though so I'm not sure if it worked lol

[haughty token]

Cool, I'll probably include something relating to it - after all, it's like 20 hours a week I spend on it

Well, during the season

[long spruce]

Tbh I just don't feel like writing all my stats out again

Just kinda depressing

[chrome quarry]

It's not that deep lil bro

[long spruce]

But as for numbers just your typical 4.0/35/17 dual enrollment

[chrome quarry]

ur smart asf you'll be fine

[long spruce]

No don't 😭

[chrome quarry]

LTG reference?

[fallow cliff]

damn bruh

i dont get MIT

i seriously dont understand how it can be so competitive

[chrome quarry]

Not over until it's over

[fallow cliff]

like who are these kids getting accepted ⁉️

[long spruce]

Eh pretty much every person applying has that or similar so 😭

[chrome quarry]

you'll cook up a storm rd

[chrome quarry]

MIT in particular has a lot of super cracked people who apply EA

[long spruce]

Furina think about it this way

[haughty token]

That's better than me I only got 3.98/34/13 dual enrollment, am I cooked?

[long spruce]

Someone will get accepted rd after being deferred

Just gotta make sure it's us

[long spruce]

No

At a certain point it doesn't matter

[haughty token]

Yeah ig they care more about uniqueness

Or something who knows

[long spruce]

😭

I'll never know

Tbh that's the worst part of this process; you can never know what caused you to get a certain decision

[manic imp]

@sour path stop dooming

[haughty token]

ikr, feels like you send your application to a black box and it returns a random result several months later

[fallow cliff]

i wish they recorded the committee discussion so u can see what's going on while they review ur app 😣

[manic imp]

there are many other colleges in the sea

omg hi!

glad to see you're doing alright

vry positive mindset from you

[long spruce]

😭

If you don't get into MIT just go to Harvard instead

[manic imp]

its one school like you'll be fine

genuienly

yes

HARVARD

JOIN ME

[long spruce]

I'm praying jazzy 🙏

[manic imp]

join me too

i like u

ur jiji and ur

silicate

or smth

[haughty token]

Go to Harvard and cross register for MIT classes and you'll be set

[manic imp]

black kitty supremacy

not a lot of ppl cross register ngl

[long spruce]

TRUE black cats are literally the best

[manic imp]

its fun to point and laugh at the rich kids

also how does the campus creep u out?

its like

sosososo cozy

i feel so safe here

i run around like an idiot at 3am

even if its a little haunted thats chill

[placid prairie]

The only part of Harvard i liked was my tour guide

[manic imp]

and i was lowk the opposite

mit was too nerdy and scary and too right in the city

i was like im gonna get lost or shot

[placid prairie]

I toured both of them in July so my only opinion is that it was HOT and i died

[manic imp]

hot?? boston??

my brother in christ de donde eres

[placid prairie]

It was July…

Well idk about my mit tour but i clearly remember being horrifically sweaty and dying during Harvard tour

Gotta love Ctrl i

[manic imp]

did u jump on the rocks with the fountains

did they have the fountains on

[fallow cliff]

yeah hang yourself and then theyll send the acceptance letter 🙂 💯

[placid prairie]

Wait which campus because I KNOW i remember rocks but idk… was it Harvard??

I dont remember water tho

So i think they were off

[manic imp]

it was right next to the same science center

there are fun rocks

[placid prairie]

Why red flag

Oh

[fallow cliff]

guys lets be real MIT is probs putting everyone's application into AI for weeding 🤩

[haughty token]

Imagine putting weeks into your essays just to have some AI decide they don't even deserve the attention of the AOs

[fallow cliff]

tbh id rather have an AI determine my acceptance than a person

it's more objective and they can just feed in all of the applications at once to actually determine the top 4% of applicants

[outer mountain]

I would assume that would be too stat based

[haughty token]

Maybe the school could adjust the weight of stats so it focuses more on essays or something?

[outer mountain]

What would an objective view on essays look like though

[manic imp]

was it for the suicidal tendencies 💀

[long spruce]

💀

[manic imp]

ell thats what it is

[fallow cliff]

yeah but AI can probably do it in the "most" objective way

[manic imp]

tbh i loved asking chatgpt to read my essays

to see if it liked it

i'd keep going until it liked it, or i found myself arguing with it as to why it didn't like it

thats the last thing i trust it with 💀

[molten mauve]

The thing with using chatgpt is that it just chucks it into the system and spits it out for other people

[placid prairie]

I let my apush teacher read my personal statement and he just left one comment on one word that just said “reword” 😭

[fallow cliff]

im ngl i dont think any teacher wants to review a personal statement

[placid prairie]

He was the only person who read it 💀

It’s ok he was chill with it

I only freaked out initially because that was the only comment but he talked with me later and said he liked it

[sudden dome]

brain rot

[full lynx]

yea go for it

you got this furina

[feral coyote]

wait focus on other schools lol

[sudden dome]

well

wanna learn how to kick a football?

[full lynx]

feller

[sudden dome]

this

[full lynx]

peep the new username .

[sudden dome]

rez do you know how to kick a football

[full lynx]

why

i played football for a while

[feral coyote]

i dont deal with suicidal messages lol

[sudden dome]

😂😂

[full lynx]

obviously not serious brh

💀

[sudden dome]

if you're good enough it helps with admission

[full lynx]

being a kicker??

[feral coyote]

regardless not the sort of rhetoric i want to have to read on a thread about MIT admissions..

[full lynx]

okay

[sudden dome]

yeah

[full lynx]

check dms babe

[quaint ferry]

Hello, for anyone who got in ea I was wondering if you know where we are supposed to submit our winter semester transcript, I can’t find it in the portal.

[sudden dome]

nice profile pic

[quaint ferry]

Thx it’s my favorite album 😁

[sudden dome]

that is a pretty sweet album

however i cant find the original version on youtube music anymore it's so sad

[quaint ferry]

Yeah that’s true

I think on YouTube all the songs are combined together

[sudden dome]

yeah it is

which kinda sucks cuz i cant listen to the ones i like on repeat

although the whole album is pretty fire

[quaint ferry]

Hmmm

What’s your favorite song, mines is epitaph

Oh ok thank you so much

Congrats to you too btw🥳🎉

[quaint ferry]

I think my favorite in general by king crimson is starless

O mb I thought people saying that you got in

I’m really sorry

You’ll get in for rd for sure

Did anyone solve the detective problem btw

[pale sierra]

real

[normal stag]

Gl

[outer mountain]

I thought it’s like 2.5% based on last year’s stats

Not much better though

[normal stag]

Ngl I've never really done anything "for collegeapps" but I might be locking in atp for the FUN form

[rocky notch]

is it time for MITsimp

jk don't kill me mods

[gentle vessel]

might be cooked
do you guys think cross supplemental references work? they're all different topics but thematically they all reference each other?

[proven reef]

depends on how well it’s executed

[gentle vessel]

fair
i just really love my commonapp essay but obvi mit doesnt take those so

[haughty token]

Three 225 word essays is not enough imo

[gentle vessel]

not even a little 😞

[haughty token]

I have like 3 responses to every prompt and I'm having a real hard time deciding which one to revise and submit

Also trying a new style of writing from my Stanford essays so I'm a bit anxious

[haughty token]

For the prompt about doing something different from what was expected on your educational journey, is it bad to write about two math papers I wrote in my junior year? For context, my college classes were over and I had around 4 free hours in my school's library. I decided to learn LaTeX and write some math papers for the fun of it (one on finding the osculating circle before learning calc 3 and one on modeling the launch trajectory of a ballistic rocket including air resistance). They are very... crude. I didn't know much but tried writing it anyway, simply because I didn't have anything else to do at the time.

[placid prairie]

i think thats an interesting topic, shows you're doing something productive with your free time and learning something out of it

and it's showing you're learning stuff more advanced than you already knew

[peak jacinth]

This is worth a lot more than you think tbh

I submitted some of my pretty crude astronomy notes from one of my research projects to caltech and i think paired with something more official it works well

It shows an understanding of the material tbh

[olive kettle]

if you want me to do something, actually ask me.

(i was searching my name for fun and saw this)

[haughty token]

Oh I just kinda neglected it because I didn't think it was interesting enough, I'll write a draft now and see how it turns out, thanks!

[peak jacinth]

ofc

always good to keep your options open yk

[haughty token]

Yeah I've decided to just keep writing new essays as I come up with ideas and decide which one to refine in the end

Allows me to explore more options

[peak jacinth]

definitely a good idea

[lavish scroll]

skibidi

[normal stag]

Bruhh

I'm quitting math league this year bc the captains have explicitly engaged in racist behavior for the entire club

wonder what colleges are gonna think about that 😔

[full lynx]

you can make an EC out of stopping them and saving the day !

very extra curricular .

[normal stag]

lol

I almost became captain then maybe I could have dnoe more

I had first place in the poll but then the caoch decided to add sohmpres to it lsat minute so I got second :​\

[fresh mirage]

how do people make math league racist 😭

thats crazy work

[normal stag]

"alright so for the end of year party we are going to be filming a reel...."

[gray dawn]

maybe idk “ur Asian so good at math”

But that’s lowkey positive racism

[normal stag]

no it was worse

the cpatains told everyone in the club to film a reel which was basically making fun of asian acccents (~85% of the club is asian)

[gray dawn]

insane work

Do yall not have an advisor

who would immediately condone ts

[normal stag]

nah the rest of the club meetings are similarly cursed, but most of the time its not official/condoned by captains/forced upon the entre club

[full lynx]

oh i thought it was gonna be like way worse

[normal stag]

yeah true it could have been much worse

[normal stag]

we do but he doesn't do anything

[normal stag]

also captains on the basis of a popularity contest has led to a very disorganized club :\

[manic imp]

mention that in your additional information

or deferral letter thing

or like an interview

this is definitely good to mention

bc it screws over racists

:)

[normal stag]

for mit specifically ig it doesn't matter bc you can only put 4 ecs so I didn't mention competition math at all

but thanks for the advice

I will do so for other schools

[fresh mirage]

wait my rec letter talks about how i want to do CS/math/linguistics but now im leaning towards course 11-6... is this fine??

11-6 being urban planning+CS

[normal stag]

I can't imagine it would matter than much but what do I know

[woeful coral]

For MIT, should I add a maker portfolio when that one project is already in my EC list?

[wicked pond]

I mean if it's a cool project and you feel you could showcase it better, I don't see it hurting you at all

[woeful coral]

Alright 👍

[wicked pond]

I would say not to feel pressured to submit it if it doesn't show them anything new or your best work though

[woeful coral]

Alright got it

[shy girder]

idk if this applies to you but research was my first extracurricular and i submitted a research portfolio

[peak jacinth]

real

same

not for mit ofc but i think it applies to both fairly equally

[manic imp]

I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING 😭

i mean

hii ;3

[untold mango]

For the mit maker portfolio, if we want to submit a coding project, but don’t want to give a public github repo, where do you upload the code on slideroom?

[waxen cloak]

probably in the portfolios

if I had to guess a pdf

but call up the office to make sure

[fallow cliff]

instead of just copy-pasting my entire codebase i made a document outlining the project & highlighted specific/important aspects that showed ingenuity/technical skills

and explained how the code functioned, both technically and practically

[haughty token]

Is it bad to write about content in your maker portfolio for your supplementals?

[untold mango]

Ah so like a pdf with a few code blocks and then some comments of me explaining it

[elfin forum]

I got in EA 🙂 sorry I'm late but I just joined

[stray plume]

For your source did you just pull this out of ur ass

[cursive hazel]

W skele

[waxen cloak]

Bro is trying to question us when we did the math lmao

[stray plume]

⁉️⁉️

[waxen cloak]

Us im referring to you and me oops

[stray plume]

oh LMAO

[waxen cloak]

We did the calculations rmbr

Do you not remember me :(

[stray plume]

https://tenor.com/view/youweremybrother-anakin-i-love-you-gif-5049175

[normal stag]

https://tenor.com/view/armstrong-made-it-up-gif-25653819

No my actual source is someone else on this thread said 0.85%

idk where they got their numbers from

[stray plume]

⁉️⁉️⁉️

[normal stag]

reddit says 3% but I'm not sure reddit is any more reliable than discord so idk

[stray plume]

Fear not I used the actual numbers

[elfin forum]

yeah I'm in the mit admits server and ppl were talking about how the mit defer -> acceptance rate is p much zero

[stray plume]

You have the same shot

[elfin forum]

actually most defers who get in are recruited athletes who had some academic issues and then they got those resolved

like after the EA deferral the coach was like "ok so admissions told me you need xyz" and then they resolve it

[stray plume]

Where did u get this from

[normal stag]

from where

[stray plume]

Search “MIT Class of 2028 admissions statistics”

[elfin forum]

1. the coach of the sport I tried to get recruited to (but failed 😦 ) and 2) a sophomore at mit in the admits server who was one of said defer -> accept

[normal stag]

bc deferral->acceptance rate does not nessisarily the same as RD acceptance rate. While it is true that the applications are considered equivalently, you have more information because you know deffered students weren't cracked enough to get in EA

[normal stag]

okay so 2.5%?

bet

[elfin forum]

🤓

I never said this was 100% true this is just the experience I know about

[wise glacier]

they literally don't see if you were deferred

[normal stag]

hmm so if this is purely just what a few people said, then "practically 0" is a wide range. I mean, one could consider 5% practically 0

[elfin forum]

listen there's nothign wrong with being hopeful

I know you guys want to think you have a chance and I believe you do

but I'm just saying what I know

[normal stag]

yes but if you were, say, an imo gold medalist you would have gotten in ea. Therefore, one would expect the deferral->accepted rate to be lowered because all the extremely cracked students are filtered out

[wise glacier]

Sure but it doesn't affect you admissions wise

Functionally, getting deferred EA and applying RA are the same thing

[normal stag]

when I said additional information I meant to use as trying to approximate the acceptace rate not to AOs

[wise glacier]

Everyone fills out the FUN

Even if you are accepted EA, you have to fill out the FUN

[elfin forum]

literally there are two purposes: 1) helping recruited athletes have a second chance and 2) artificially lowering the RD acceptance rate

[wise glacier]

7486 people got deferred this year

[normal stag]

Well it tells us that we weren't good enough to be accepted EA. If we had applied RD, we wouldn't nessisarily know that. Therefore, while the true percent chance is the same (as in, to AOs it is the same) but to us trying to estimate if we will get in or not we need to lower our expectations

imo

[elfin forum]

imo you guys are overthinking it and there are millions of more useful things you could be thinking about rn

just wait and see that's all you can do. and send in feb updates

[wise glacier]

Why are you calculating the expectations you should have? If you get in, you got in. If you don't get in, you don't get in. Why does speculating matter?

If you got deferred, it's literally the same as applying RA

[normal stag]

human nature is going to human nature

[elfin forum]

so true

[normal stag]

I respect your ability to be stoic about it

I am definitely going to overthink, even though it doesn't effect anything

[wise glacier]

I'm just saying: they don't see whether you were deferred or not

They just see an applicant

And also I have some suspicions that that will change this year as MIT upped the income thresholds for aid after the EA deadline

Probably gonna have a huge influx of RA applications

That's what I'm saying like more applicants probably doesn't mean more competitive applicants

So defer->accept rate might actually be higher this year

Also MIT is very conservative in EA acceptances anyways

So if you got deferred, that doesn't mean you were a bad applicant

[waxen cloak]

What's the argument again

[wise glacier]

People think deferral = doomed but its the same as RA in reality

Everyone writes a FUN

RA applicants, deferred EA, and accepted EA

Yes

You can put a joke OR updates iirc

Yes

[wise glacier]

Yeah I just checked

If you don't have any updates, tell them a joke

[sudden sand]

troll ahh uni

[elfin forum]

I wouldn't be surprised if RD apps surge to 20k after the recent news about the financial aid promise

that news made it to the new york times

[wise glacier]

acceptance rate is gonna plummet

[elfin forum]

yeah

I am so lucky to be in the only pool to benefit from 4 years of the new promise without the fallout of probably up to 2x the applicants

after getting rejected from literally every summer program on earth I still can't believe that I got in

[normal stag]

That's a W

Congrats!

[haughty token]

Praying this is me lol

[elfin forum]

thanks

[sterile pebble]

hey everyone, do we have a rough idea of EA vs RA acceptance rates for MIT?

[simple oracle]

#1268141479440683019 message

[haughty token]

I think they want acceptance rates for EA applications and RA applications alone, not the acceptance rates for RA among deferred applications and ones applying RA

[simple oracle]

ah, I didn't pick that up

[haughty token]

All good

Kinda curious myself lol

[vivid tulip]

Snow!!!

[haughty token]

They claim applying early doesn't provide any benefit in the admissions process

Also generally speaking stronger applicants will apply EA so the stats a bit skewed and not really representative of your chances

[steady swift]

how many athletes do they actually recruit

like say I’m a top tier men’s field hockey player but I’m not a recruited player, will it help at all

but in rd will AOs know that they wanna accept athletic kids alongside other stuff or nah

like

surely MIT can’t recruit enough for its teams

like will they actively look for players to fill in rd

Or do they fully recruit full teams thru ea

like the same as other Ivy leagues

Yo who just deleted that

abt getting recruited in rd

yh im just tryna see bc I thought it might be helpful to boost admissions

I’m technically an athlete but I never had the time to do the proper recruitment stuff and I was academically strong enough to apply normally anyways

[steady swift]

I’m intl

And I don’t wanna be recruited

[hidden axle]

mit dgaf

It’s d3

February updates and notes

It’s a form you have to do if you either got accepted early or deferred early and want to be considered for regular

[simple oracle]

There's often shortfalls in sports that are filled by walk-ons

[hidden axle]

It’s fine but you still gotta do the form

Bc it includes grades

You can’t submit it yet they’ll email you once you can with more instructions

[simple oracle]

I'm guessing that's up to the coach, but they still need to meet the academic bar

[keen girder]

when is maker portoflio rd due

[coarse parrot]

so its the same rate?

[coarse parrot]

same rd deadline

[keen girder]

😭

[outer mountain]

Yes

[little sequoia]

me too

what u on

[waxen cloak]

y'all need to stop spreading misinformation

[stray plume]

Yes

[normal stag]

Idk don't listen to me

I was quoting someone else but ig I was misinformed

Sorry about that

[normal stag]

Mb for spreading propaganda

[waxen cloak]

Nah actually ur good than >90% bc you actually own up

[coarse parrot]

booo

[placid prairie]

Oh

[crude flare]

Throwback to when I forgot dorms ≠ dorm buildings and posted this on r/MIT

[rocky notch]

yes

I have data that I posted on r/mitadmissions

trying to find the link hold on

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WWCaO3DRum5FFF8sGnB6dKQ_oVZVQJ4jdYYS7tNOPjY/edit?usp=sharing

there it is

what's interesting is when you separate whether an applicant was deferred, regular action is the same acceptance rate either way

since if you were deferred, about 200 are accepted out of a pool of about 7500

if you are an RA applicant, about 400 are accepted out of a pool of about 15000

so it's the same percentage either way

that's why we gotta hope with what sansk was saying that it's the same either way 🙏

[cursive hazel]

should i apply to mit as a 100% humanities girlie

[haughty token]

Wait why did the acceptance rate drop so much this year

2.3% instead of 4.9% bruh

[sudden sand]

they b doing a lil trolling

[haughty token]

Did they decrease their class size or something

[rocky notch]

this is by class not year

that's class of 2025 that dropped to 2.5%

which is most likely because of covid

[haughty token]

Omg I’m stupid

Sorry lol

[rocky notch]

nah ur not

no worries :)

[misty badge]

i'm doing this too!

but like 50/50 stem humanities

[full lynx]

Are any of you guys writing LOCIs?

[lavish scroll]

Doesn’t mean the rates will be the same as rd

If you would’ve got in rd

You probably would’ve ea

[wise glacier]

Yes

[wise glacier]

No, they're much more conservative in EA

[haughty token]

But they filled like 60% of their class with EA?

[forest perch]

omg humanities & engineering? 21e?

[misty badge]

yess! or potentially smtg w sts

i'm struggling w the why this field essay tho 💀

[forest perch]

i think i reused mine

[simple oracle]

what field are you interested in?

[misty badge]

6-4 w sts, maybe also course 9

a weird blend of cs, neuro, policy, and philosophy

[simple oracle]

that sounds like an interesting problem to have

I would probably try to find a way to tie all of that together concisely

[misty badge]

i'm not sure if i should approach the 100-word essay anecdotaly or just cut straight into what stuff at mit is relevant to all those things

[simple oracle]

what's the actual prompt?

[misty badge]

Tell us more about why this field of study at MIT appeals to you. (100 words)

[simple oracle]

I'd probably start with mentioning course 6-4, and then weave in all my other interests. But 100 words is not a lot so it'll probably take a few iterations

[misty badge]

gotcha i'll try that, i did one approahc where i just focused on 6-4 instead of sts but i'm not totally set on studying AI, which is why i swapped to sts

[simple oracle]

My advice would be to prioritize making you sound interesting than addressing the specific field

[misty badge]

interesting, so mentioning what i've done or?

[simple oracle]

No, selling the interesting things you want to do

[elfin forum]

conservative in what sense

[outer mountain]

More careful about choosing people

[elfin forum]

they def weren't careful choosing me 😭

[outer mountain]

“MIT never makes a mistake in choosing people”

Or something like that

Idk the exact quote

[elfin forum]

yeah that's what they say

I still can't believe it tho

[outer mountain]

So I’m sure you’ll do great 👍

[elfin forum]

honestly the only diff between an MIT admit and defer is that mit saw something in the admits that probably you don't even know about

it's so random

[outer mountain]

Ig

[elfin forum]

like all these IMO/USAMO kids got deferred

and then my ass got in

and I had no olympiads and no research

[outer mountain]

That just means you have something even better

[elfin forum]

not even maxed out courseload because I didn't take a high school chem class

I only self studied ap chem

[elfin forum]

maybe it was all the personality from the essays

idk

I'll never know

[outer mountain]

Unfortunately yeah

[elfin forum]

I wish MIT released their admissions files like harvard

[long spruce]

Pretty sure they're legally required to let you view them like every other school (if you get in)

Just not your lor (and interview maybe?)

I know people who have viewed their admit file

[proven reef]

MIT's admissions file is known to be very lacking i've heard

[nocturne sable]

I need tips for MIT guysss
Anyone have any specific tips?

[long spruce]

Don't be me

💀

But actually it's a lot of luck at this point

[outer mountain]

Tips on what

[long spruce]

I would say focus on your essays

Show as much personality as you can

[outer mountain]

Let’s go gambling!

[long spruce]

Real!

[outer mountain]

March 14th Aw dang it

[full lynx]

12/17 incident

[normal stag]

Okay so I am sick wigth covid rn, so I don't feel like being productive

[chrome quarry]

Average MIT applicant

[worthy rover]

nerd

[normal stag]

Fr 😭

[long spruce]

Based thank you 🙏

Now I can be delusional!

[normal stag]

yes

trust in the totally legit 24% acceptance rate

[prime glen]

were you rejected? #1268144807180767244 ED2 closes Jan 6! apply there for a good chance at a great university

[full lynx]

Good chance

Yep

For real

[vivid tulip]

For MIT it gives an advantage but not by much really

And it also doesn't matter much unless you're a recruited athlete just in general

It is a holistic process, so ECs and Stats don't tell you everything

[hidden axle]

Attach this to your FUN form

If they let you

Idk if they will tho

You might just have to write out the results

[hidden axle]

If you waive your ferpa then no lor for you

The amount you get varies by school tho

Like those Harvard who yap abt “oh yeah I saw my AO said xyz in the comments about me” are getting those comments but not every school gives access to those comments

They are only legally required to give you what you turned in afaik

Most will give you your raw number scores but at least UCSD from my friend will omit p much all comments

[long spruce]

Ah ok good to know, thanks 🙏

[stray plume]

Follow the injury rule

If he were to be injured before his freshman year or unable to play or chose not to for any reason, would he still make a great contribution to MIT?

if the answer is no, he wouldn’t have gotten in

athletes are recruited but academics and personality still come first

[rocky notch]

this was an interesting read lol

doesn't make me confident in my application though 😭

[haughty token]

Best conclusion I’ve ever read

[mossy matrix]

this is the most MIT thing to do💀

[sudden sand]

not everyone from intl olys is in y13

[woven wave]

LOL

bro i saw integrals and i was like wtf is going on

[mossy matrix]

this was real interesting to read ngl

[woven wave]

i suck balls at math

wish i was better at it so i could actually understand this shit im ngl

[mossy matrix]

Have you applied to MIT...?

[woven wave]

i've written my essays

i js need to fill it out

[woven wave]

i do not think i'm smart enough to do well at MIT

:D

even if i somehow got in (not happening) and went

i'd be fighting for like a 10th percentile bell curve

[mossy matrix]

I haven't even written my essays I have my mid terms going on 💀

[woven wave]

good luck

my school ended a few days ago

[normal stag]

Okay yeah I didn't really explain things because it was more just a random project for fun ig. It's definitely not your bad if it doesn't make sense bc I didn't explain anything in the paper really.

So normally (when there are discrete outcomes, like a dice), when we calculate expected value, we take each possible value and multiply that value by its probability. If we are using a smooth curve for our probabilities though, there are infinitely many outcomes. We would have to add infinitely many tiny pieces, each with infinitely small probability--this is exactly the definition of an integral! When we are integrating, we are effectively calculating the area by splitting the curve into pieces of size dx and adding together the area of each piece, and looking at what happens as dx gets really close to 0.

There were two integrals because the total area under the curve wasn't 1, so it wasn't really a probability distribution. So the second integral is just dividing by the total area to make it 1.

[normal stag]

Yeah true I made lot of really bad assumptions just kinda arbitrarily bc I didn't have data. For example, I know my equation for the chance of being so deferred is wrong because it predicts that only 11% of applicants are deferred, whereas in reality it's 65% iirc

[normal stag]

Lol don't make this random thing make you feel bad at math. I had to do a lot of Google searching to write it and it might just be wrong bc I don't know what in doing either lol.

[normal stag]

No trustttt. Gl on the application

[rocky notch]

yeah I don't understand it at all either 😎

I can see z-scores and that's it

[haughty token]

Never took stats and I don’t regret it

“Math”

[long spruce]

Nah stats is sick

[haughty token]

It’s like interesting but it’s not math

Just applied math for the most part

[long spruce]

Doesn't make it any less interesting to study haha

But yeah, if you're doing pure math a class that is just probability is probably more useful

[simple oracle]

What did you use for your prior?

[normal stag]

Hmmm so the abstract said I used Bayesian analysis and thats because I thought that was going to be my plan but then I realized I didn't think that would be best but didn't update the abstract lol

To get the distribution, I assumed it would be a normal distribution in a logarithmic scale (idk, it just sounded interesting/maybe realistic), where the mean would just be the acceptance rate

[simple oracle]

oh, I just skimmed it and assumed that you used a Bayesian model

[normal stag]

The hard part was standard deviation, so I did something really rigorous and just like said "well lets say there are 30 domestic international Olympiad medalists and lets assume that's maybe 1/9 of the people who have a >95% chance of getting in" and then fit the standard deviation to give that area.... very unrigorous and if I were trying to make this more serious that would be something to improve fs

[simple oracle]

I would assume more that it's a normal-ish distribution with a long tail to the right

[normal stag]

For Bayes' theorem you need to know P(B|A), right? And besides just looking at how many deferred students got admitted (which would kinda invalidate the entire purpose of building a model instead of just looking at the data) I wouldn't know how to find P(deferred|admitted)

[simple oracle]

well, either way you need data to fit the model

[normal stag]

agreed

So when your modeling, you usually try to build a model fit to the data so that you can understand it and make predictions where there isn't data, right? But I don't know what predictions one would meaningfully care about here, so realistically there is no good reason to model the data. To me it feels oddly like cheating to just fit it to the data even though that's what should be done in practice, and I think its because this is not a problem where a model is particularly useful

[simple oracle]

I guess?

it's not like I know what the distribution actually looks like

[normal stag]

yeah

true

[simple oracle]

besides, how are you going to objectively evaluate the quality of the application

[normal stag]

what do you mean by that

[simple oracle]

nvm, you're modeling something different

[haughty token]

Totally agree, from the few things I’ve seen it’s certainly interesting

[rocky notch]

I'm in stats right now and it's certainly interesting indeed

it's a weird cross between math and something else

[simple oracle]

It's like... Numerical engineering. Data science is the same thing except model driven without guarantees

[normal stag]

yeah

data science/modeling/stats is so based

ngl I first got interested in stats as a method of coping bc I was bad at pure math so I wanted to find a kind of math I was good at lol

[simple oracle]

Sometimes that's all it takes

[pastel holly]

i held a 30 minute schoolhouse.world session once 2 years ago and got a really positive review from the person i taught but i never continued to teach

is it worth including on my mit app

i have like 5 pre-alg certifications 💀

[proven reef]

i didn’t know what schoolhouse world was until i got to that session on the mit app

how’d you find out about it

[pastel holly]

i think i just got a khan academy email randomly one day iirc

and the email introduced it to me

[pulsar laurel]

how do u know i took 7 aps?

[rocky notch]

me too it's so different than any other math

[ashen zenith]

in terms of MIT financial aid, can you still qualify if you have a second home? income is less than 200k

[long spruce]

The <200k income free tuition is for "typical assets"

[ashen zenith]

what does "typical assets" mean

avg home value?

[long spruce]

I mean it really depends on the situation

[ashen zenith]

one could have purchased a home very early and the value appreciated

but not in a position to sell the home, right

[long spruce]

But two homes is definitely not typical assets in most cases

[ashen zenith]

umm so in that case i'm most likely not to qualify?

bc my parents make international income

[long spruce]

Maybe not for the fully free tuition

[ashen zenith]

so its much much less when converted to usd

and they don't live in the us

[long spruce]

If you're international it becomes even messier

[ashen zenith]

our real estate is in a diff country

[long spruce]

I would say you should run the NPC

[ashen zenith]

NPC seems to not consider housing equity

[long spruce]

That's the only thing that will be accurate

[ashen zenith]

the college board one doesn't have an input for home equity, iirc?

the other, simpler calculator doesn't factor in home equity

[long spruce]

Actually, housing equity is not considered for MIT from what I can see

https://news.mit.edu/2016/increase-financial-aid-benefit-students-families-0304

[ashen zenith]

i just tried for fun, i put a 10mm home equity, but i got near full aid

lol

also, are second homes considered an investment or home equity

bc ik primary residence is not considered fs

[keen girder]

if only i still lived in my old home in socal when applying for college 💀

i would have gotten hella aid from mit

ehhh whatever mit is a long shot anyways, no point hypothesizing

[long spruce]

It's alright don't forget the 24% deferral acceptance rate 🔥

[proven reef]

petition to make 24% canon

[normal stag]

exactly

[sudden sand]

can i put a third teacher reference as my supplemental?

[rocky notch]

about to raise the class size to 2600 😎

I feel like having more space would take away from the school

the culture of the school being so tight-knit is something that adds to its appeal

oh that's true

maybe that's why they accepted more early action than years before

oh I guess that's true

but they haven't accepted this many kids EA since 2011

so maybe just maybe the class size will be bigger 🙏

us defers can get in

[long spruce]

Surely they won't just make the rd acceptance rate smaller

Surely

[rocky notch]

...

!cooked

[knotty geyser]

It’s so over…

@rocky notch is absolutely doomed.
@rocky notch feels this server is the place to bring it up time and time again.
@rocky notch is truly A2Cooked.

Used 633 times.

[rocky notch]

actually I'll just ✨ manifest it ✨

I finished reading about a dozen blog posts from people who were originally deferred, might as well get my hopes up until it happens

or do what the bloggers did and just forget about it until March comes around

[long spruce]

That's what I'm trying to do, yeah

Getting invested in other schools as well, but the cold reality of them all having like 3% acceptance rates is kinda sad lol

[outer mountain]

I mean getting deferred from MIT probably means you have a good shot at them too

[long spruce]

True, I finally have a good reason to call MIT mid

[long spruce]

Possibly yeah, but that's one thing I don't like about how MIT does deferrals

Idk if my app was pretty good but just not quite there, or if it's actually pretty bad but they could possibly see tiny opportunity for me to slip in

[normal stag]

I don't think it's like that

From what I've heard pretty much everyone who is deferred has a good enough app that they are qualified enough to get in

There are just so many qualified people that, aside from the very top few, the differentiation between those who are admitted and those who aren't is so small it feels random

[fallow cliff]

how many mit applicants have very strong academics? like near perfect GPAs, many APs, strong SAT

[normal stag]

I'm not sure

but given that 65% ish are deferred and 5% admitted, probably at least 70%?

[proven reef]

i'd probably guess above 70%, it's really not that rare to have high GPA + SAT and to take many APs in hs

[fallow cliff]

then how does MIT make their admit decision with such confidence (considering they say stuff like all their decision are intentional & they make no mistakes)? how do they differentiate admits vs denials?

[normal stag]

Also depends on the definition of "strong." As in I would bet nearly all a smart students who have above average acedmics, because why else would one apply to MIT. But that doesn't nessisarily mean near straight As and a standardized test score above the 25th percentile of admitted students

[normal stag]

There are two types of confidence. There is confidence in lack of false positives, and confidence is lack of false negatives. Basically, they are confident that they don't admit (or admit very very few) students who aren't prepared enough to succeed. This does not mean they are confident that rejected students were not prepared or even nessisarily prepared less well. If, say, the top 70% of all MIT applicants were extraordinary students who could succeed at MIT, they could admit a random selection of the top 70% and still be confident they didn't admit anyone who wouldn't be prepared to succeed. (which is not what they do ofc but you get the point)

[rocky notch]

there's a lot of really great schools outside of the T20

RPI is one of my favorites I love its curriculum and rigor, its people, culture, etc

a lot of the top 100 are really great schools and many of them have decent (but not easy) acceptance rates

financial aid is a different story though 😔

[normal stag]

yeah😔

[rocky notch]

I need that sweet MIT free tuition, lol

[normal stag]

yeah fr

Obv caltech isn't any easier to get into than MIT but I saw this recantly

[rocky notch]

oh sweet

can't go to california though but still

[long spruce]

Oh for sure, there's a ton I would be happy to go to

Just can't afford any 😭

[nocturne sable]

You guysss
Do you think essays are that important for MIT?

[long spruce]

Like MIT + ivies really do just give such good financial aid

Yes

[nocturne sable]

is this to my question

[long spruce]

Yes

[nocturne sable]

If I am a national rep for an olympiad but win no medal/honourable mention, is it good?

Sorry for the multitude of questions but MIT is such a weird skl

And I got rejected REA from Caltech

[outer mountain]

Just put whatever high honors/award you have

National is pretty good

[full lynx]

RPI is great - everyone I've spoken with have called RPI the MIT without the name lol

[naive acorn]

Bonked rezhx#0

[long spruce]

Yeah I really like RPI

[haughty token]

What did you guys write about for the diversity essay? I just wrote mine about how I discovered my passion for teaching people but I don’t think it adequately addresses the prompt. I have an idea for writing about my life in Norway and how I learned from a large variety of cultures there but I was going to put that in an optional essay prompt

[outer mountain]

Which one is that again

[haughty token]

MIT brings people with diverse backgrounds together to collaborate, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to lending a helping hand. Describe one way you have collaborated with others to learn from them, with them, or contribute to your community together. (225 words)

Pretty sure this is just another diversity essay

[keen girder]

usually countries have a preliminary national olympiad so u should say that and add "qualified for international olympiad" in parenthesis

[outer mountain]

Oh I actually didn’t realize that when I wrote it so I might be cooked

But I just wrote about working with different people on a coding project and how their difference made an impact

[haughty token]

Interesting

[haughty token]

Well it doesn’t specifically ask about diversity so you might be fine

You could argue that you have experienced diversity of thought

[outer mountain]

I hope they see it that way

Wait I’m actually so cooked

It’s so bad now that I’m seeing it from this perspective

[haughty token]

Wait why? I mean you addressed the prompt no?

[placid prairie]

My prompt was about having class discussions and how it introduced me to a bunch of new/random ideas, ig thats where my “diversity” came in (though it doesn’t really feel like that to me)
I feel like yours is the same in that the different people contribute different things (idk if thats what you’re writing about, but thats what i took away)

[haughty token]

Yo mine is actually so similar rn

I think I should change it

[placid prairie]

😭

Im too lazy to change mine 😔

[haughty token]

This is like my dream school so idc how much effort I have to go through to increase my chances lol

Maybe I'm just paranoid and it's fine as is

[long spruce]

You are just paranoid I promise lol

I think overanalyzing my essays was my downfall

[haughty token]

Maybe then I should just keep what I have

I showed it to my librarian and she told me to just submit it

And that was without revisions and stuff

[molten mauve]

I watched like 100 mit essay vids and modt of them said to write it this way

Like they value collaboration over anything

[haughty token]

Is it cliche if that collaboration is related to understanding academic material from a course?

[long spruce]

No?

I wouldn't say so

[outer mountain]

Pretty much yeah

[outer mountain]

Oh I thought I should’ve connected more to the campus

Well there’s nothing I can do so I shall forget about this essay and lock in for others

[rocky notch]

that's exactly what I felt about it after visiting!

unfortunately I have made the foolish mistake of loving MIT

and RPI is so expensive ;-;

[full lynx]

They give a lot of merit stuff I heard

[rocky notch]

I hope so 🙏

would love to go there

[rocky notch]

I wrote about how a couple students showed me how this map in my school was offensive such as ukraine was part of russia and we organized a protest to get it taken down and it actually worked

[misty badge]

this is so real

[rocky notch]

fr

like why did I get so attached to a school with a 5% acceptance rate (2% now that I'm deferred)

[rocky notch]

I think this answered the question well since that was genuinely a highlight of my junior year but I don't think it conveyed the magnitude of what we did, my school is catholic private and it never changes things

sorry if I'm messaging too much I haven't read these essays since I submitted them in october and now I'm interested

[fallow cliff]

i wrote about minecraft 😛

[haughty token]

I mean if you can tie that into the prompt it would probably make for an interesting and unique essay

[fallow cliff]

can i submit my makers portfolio before i submit my application?

[haughty token]

I think so?

[pastel holly]

ik caltech allows us to be nerdy/use jargon in our essays but is mit cool with it or nah

[haughty token]

Should I list awards I won in FTC? We won the control award twice, a design award, and a 3d printing award. I pretty much carried the team (I designed, programmed, and printed everything at home on my own time), should I include this in like non-scholastic distinctions or something?

[keen girder]

that's what i did for my FTC team

if they're regional awards that's good to include

[haughty token]

3 are regional, 1 is state level

(One of the control awards)

[keen girder]

texas ftc system?

yea it should work

[haughty token]

Uh I'm in Minnesota so I'm not sure what that's like

[keen girder]

so you mean League Tournaments and MN states?

i would include MN states for sure and league tournament/qualifier if you have space

[haughty token]

We had league meets, then qualifiers, then the state championship to qualify for worlds. The last one is where I won that award

[haughty token]

Ok cool, I'll do that. Should I put one for each award I won? And would a 2nd team selected finalist alliance be worth mentioning?

[keen girder]

just put finalists, don't worry about fac/fa1/fa2

[haughty token]

Gotcha

Thanks

[haughty token]

Just rewrote this with the topic being how I learned to collaborate with a robotics team consisting of 3 members (myself included) where both of them had differing skills (one is a graphic designer and the other a builder/designer). So I basically just talked about how challenging it was to balance everything given our time schedule but how I learned to invite them into the design process and what I learned from that. I also talked about how I learned to document everything I was doing and design parts to be serviceable after talking with them. Does that adequately address the prompt?

[latent stag]

How important is the maker video ?

[stray plume]

Uhhh

I wrote about how my teacher made a simulated tyrannical classroom and we all worked together to revolt

[naive gulch]

would anyone volunteer to skim through my MIT essays? im applying from syria and i dont have a lot of people to proofread --especially people who understand the process

[naive gulch]

https://tenor.com/rKYdZSmtmxT.gif

[elfin forum]

sure dm me

[naive gulch]

thanks! I dmed you, but I think the way Discord is now, I'm probably in the "message requests" section rn

[misty badge]

would anyone be willing to read my essays?

[haughty token]

I got Dean’s list semifinalist

Alright, I’ll do that

[haughty token]

For summer activities, should I put 168 hours per week for traveling? Like I'm spending my entire day away from home

[simple oracle]

uh......... prolly not

[haughty token]

Yeah that feels kinda wrong but what am I supposed to put?

If anything at all

Cause that was like a month of my summer

[wheat mural]

I can! :)

[outer mountain]

Iirc I put it exactly like that when I traveled for 2 months

[normal stag]

I mean what do I know but don't they explicitly say they just want to know what you're doing over the summer, not what academically specifically? Idk I put reading down I see no reason you couldn't put travel

[outer mountain]

I was referring more to the hour part

[fallow cliff]

btw if its a summer activity that is not related to your application at all you should not add it

why would they care what u did on some random summer if it adds nothing to ur app

like cool, you traveled to some country, whatever

travelling is one example

[long spruce]

Yeah it really doesn't matter that much

I put down everything I could until I maxed out the slots

[torn marlin]

because (shocker!) we exist outside of our college applications and MIT just wants to know more about our character

[outer mountain]

It would show you have multiple dimensions beyond academics and you’re an authentic human

[torn marlin]

words cannot describe how much i hate these supps

i dont have a single clue what to write for any of them

[outer mountain]

Low key MIT is the only one I enjoyed writing about

[fallow cliff]

fr

[torn marlin]

reallyyy???

i genuinely cannot think of any prevalent examples in my life for the prompts

[outer mountain]

They are my first essays so I may have a bias of not experiencing the fatigue yet

But I got to be creative with them, sort of

[long spruce]

I agree ngl

MIT and Harvard had fun supps

[torn marlin]

my fav essays were UCs easily

also my first ones

[wheat bluff]

I liked umd's ones

Aside from the diversity one

[haughty token]

For those who put travel on their list (or any other activity that lasts a full day), what did you put for hours? 168?

[long spruce]

I didn't put hours

I just said how many weeks

Felt like it made more sense

Maybe that's why I got deferred though 💀

[haughty token]

Oh the hours are optional?

[long spruce]

Maybe?

I put stuff in the hours box I think, I just put weeks instead of hours I believe

I might've left it empty and just put the description though

[haughty token]

Interesting

Doubt they would defer you because of that I mean it’s not that deep

[long spruce]

Yeah I was just joking haha

[haughty token]

Ok I might just leave it blank

[outer mountain]

Yes, 168 hours

[haughty token]

Maybe I’m thinking too much about this lol

[long spruce]

Yes lol

[outer mountain]

I think as long as they get the idea you spent a month in a foreign country you’re fine

[fallow cliff]

@elfin forum (just out of curiosity) did you have some significant "spike" in your application

[molten mauve]

I mean you could lowkey recycle the UC supps

They’re pretty similar from what I remember

[haughty token]

Should I replace any of these with FIRST awards (design, 3d print, inspire, finalist alliance, etc)? Like are some of these way too generic?

(Red boxes so I don't dox myself lol)

[normal stag]

Only a little

[outer mountain]

Wait I thought FIRST Deans List is school wide

They seem fine though, I would prioritize personal awards over team ones but it seems like you’ve contributed a lot to the Controls Award

Actually idk, I thought scholastic means grade based so I only put the ones from school/collegeboard/you get the idea and the ec awards in non scholastic

I can be very wrong though

[haughty token]

Idk I saw this and thought it belonged there

But the same article also says this

[haughty token]

Actually I think you're right

I just remember it being mentioned at state

[full lynx]

I had to add quite a bit ngl

Especially for the why major one

Barely fit shit in 100 words

[haughty token]

Careful not to cram too much technical jargon into your essays as that is not the place to demonstrate your technical knowledge

Also AOs generally don't have STEM degrees, so don't assume they know everything you may mention (although you can assume some technical knowledge because it's MIT)

[outer mountain]

Bruh I’m throwing so hard

[haughty token]

I honestly don't think they care that much

[outer mountain]

Maybe

I only listed three scholastic when I could go for five though

💀

[haughty token]

Uh

How many non-scholastic?

[outer mountain]

5

[haughty token]

Ok good

If the 3 you mentioned are your top 3, you should be fine

[outer mountain]

Maybe I can note on the fun form? Idk I’ll figure it out later

[outer mountain]

No they’re awfully generic

I’m pretty sure one was the AP Scholars thingy

[haughty token]

You could definitely bring it up

[haughty token]

Idk maybe that's what they want (?)

It's extremely subjective after all

[outer mountain]

True

I would’ve put something that’s more important to me though

[haughty token]

Put it in your fun and you'll probably be fine

[frank lance]

this has probably been shared but i read this and i cried and i haven’t even applied yet https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/its_more_than_a_job/

[keen girder]

i put FIRST under non-scholastic

[haughty token]

I'm kinda lost on where that belongs tbh after reading this: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/application_question_scholasti/

Like it says FIRST is a scholastic distinction but that feels wrong

[keen girder]

idt it matters ngl

there's a lot of gray area

for example, if you're on a school team, it would make sense to put it under scholastic

whereas community team members might put it under non-scholastic

[haughty token]

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too

I want to mention all my FIRST awards because I basically won them on my own against another cracked team in our league with like 7 active members, would it look bad if I mention them in both scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions?

Maybe I should move all of them to non-scholastic and add another scholastic distinction

[torn marlin]

i did piq 3, 4, 5, and 6 idt they fit

[haughty token]

Alternatively I could do this but like

Is this bad?

[ebon jacinth]

am i able to submit a music portfolio if i got deferred ea

[elfin forum]

HELL NAH

DM me if you want to know my profile

[fallow cliff]

Okie dokie done

[long spruce]

https://mitadmissions.org/pages/ea-deferred-faq/

[rocky notch]

I agree

I put a small little travel trip that I liked as one of my summer activities and I got deferred

[molten mauve]

I mean 4 is like the educational journey one
5 is the overcoming obstacles one
6 is why major

[molten mauve]

I put my sport for 40 hours a week and got deferred 😭

[rocky notch]

😭

thats dedication though

I sport during winter

also little thing I found for all you MIT folks

[hidden axle]

https://www.instagramez.com/reel/DD9de39Oxww

[rocky notch]

oh thanks

[haughty token]

Which description is better?

For FTC as an activity

[haughty token]

I rewrote it after reading what I put down previously (1st one) but wasn’t sure if it was any better

Like if it looked like I was cramming more into the space than was needed

Yeah I kinda figured lol

[haughty token]

For hours of volunteering should I put how many our team has, or how many I did myself?

Ok I did like most of it so I'll just put how many I have

[spare nexus]

what exactly is in the maker portfolio?

I have something I made that I'd like to showcase

[haughty token]

It guides you through the process in slideroom, and you can submit up to 3 projects

https://mitadmissions.slideroom.com/

[spare nexus]

Do i need to first submit my mit overall app? (also dyk how different this is compared to some other colleges that also allow maker portfolios)

[haughty token]

tbh I don't know, but I think it doesn't matter since they ask for your application reference number and should be able to link your portfolio with your application easily

[fallow cliff]

doesnt matter you can submit either or first just make sure theyre both turned in before the jan 6th deadline

[spare nexus]

😭 wait ik theres the video to submit and then there's also like a writing supplement that describes your project right

[spare nexus]

oh really? There's no more video?? dyk if this is th esame for other schools

im prob j gonna do one project

3 seems a bit 😭

[haughty token]

Each project has like 7 responses, each 900 characters (~200 words)

It's like more writing than the supplements lol

Idk how important it is to write well though, I just think they want an idea of what you made and why

[keen girder]

if you're going to talk about robotics which one should it be

writeup is honestly hella crazy

i thought it would be more like caltech

wtf is this for

there are 2 responses on "what you did" and something else i forgot and then you have a place to upload

[keen girder]

still kind of disapointed on how caltech gave us a few extra days to do portfolio while mit isn't

[spare nexus]

oh...snap...

but it's prob more techincal right, not like the supps

[haughty token]

Yeah they don't care about prose

Obviously don't write poorly on purpose

[spare nexus]

do you have the questions?

or should i j use slide

[haughty token]

Just use slideroom, they give you the questions there

[spare nexus]

i need to check which other colleges also take a stem portfolio 😭

[haughty token]

Caltech is the only one I know of

[spare nexus]

oh really

okay then thats not too bad

[haughty token]

It's a lot less writing I've heard

[keen girder]

it's just caltech and mit

caltech stem portfolio is chill

[haughty token]

Bro why is MIT so much more writing like I'm not submitting a lab report

[spare nexus]

they make up for it with like 9 supps or smth...

[keen girder]

yea but everybody has to go through the same suffering

same cannot be said about mit's portfolio

[outer mountain]

Wait does this mean I can submit one if I didnt do so during the EA cycle?

*a portfolio

I’m considering a Maker Portfolio or Research Supplement. I didn’t make one during EA cause I didn’t find them impressive, but I’m thinking I should still do it

[haughty token]

Does the order of the portfolio matter? Like does the first project assume a higher priority than the other two?

Also if my project is highly code based, how would I describe the build process?

[haughty token]

Ah yes the perfect description

[outer mountain]

Idk if I should. They’re nothing grand (really, I’m not being humble here), but I can say a lot of things about them. Any opinions?

[fallow cliff]

no you cant add anything to your app

[fallow cliff]

if it doesnt add much to your application, it can harm you instead of benefit you

You should submit a Maker Portfolio to MIT if you have a strong portfolio showcasing your creative, hands-on projects and making skills

[outer mountain]

It wouldn’t necessarily harm you

Also I’m not sure what defines adding much. How impressive they are, or the explanation of my process behind them?

I do think it’ll provide better information and a much more rounded context of my projects. The only thing I’m concerned about is if it’s still worth documenting them when they pretty much pale in comparison to some of the Maker Portfolios out there?

[haughty token]

Is it bad if I put my FTC robot for the question "What have you made that holds the most personal meaning for you, and why"? I feel like a lot of people are going to have a similar answer, but I'm not sure how important it is to stand out here

[long spruce]

I would just be honest

They really just want to know what holds the most personal meaning to you

[haughty token]

Ok I'll just put that then

I spent so many hours on it and it had a lot of emotional meaning to me

[long spruce]

For sure! That sounds like a great choice

[latent stag]

For the summer activities session , it asked for approximate dates of participation. Do you need to put in mm/dd/yy? or just mm/yy?

[wooden stag]

wait dont u need mmddyy-mmddyy

[haughty token]

It lets you put whatever

[glacial lion]

for the summer activity, does going to the beach and having a slumber to just chill out count?

cause most of the things i did in the summer fall under jobs or activities

so its kind of empty i only have relaxation related things to add

[cloud axle]

yeah i think a mix of "serious" stuff and things that show you had fun/relaxed is good

[haughty token]

Keep in mind you can only list 6 summer activities so choose them wisely

Does anyone know if MIT only wants activities from the most recent summer, or do they accept activities from the past 4 summers while you were in high school?

[fallow cliff]

can i submit my MIT app without my letters of rec thru?

[long spruce]

Yes

[fallow cliff]

ty

[restive dawn]

do I need to make a request through the portal for my counselor to send the school report?

or do they just send it and it shows up there by itself?

[little sequoia]

I only had a couple hours and I put it on

[little sequoia]

Basically your parents own an average ish home and don’t own some insane business or property

[woeful coral]

for MIT Why Major essay, I went for a simple answer, didnt really try to be creative or wtv

is that fine?

[keen girder]

ofc its fine

[woeful coral]

alright, It was a 100 words so i didnt wanna waste space

[woeful coral]

alright thanks

[wooden stag]

did yall connect it to MIT

or just the major itself

[outer mountain]

Connect it to MIT

It’s a combination of why major and why MIT

[glacial lion]

i connected it to mit

mainly bc there isnt a direct opportunity to talk about mit rlly in the app

except if u get an interview

[wooden stag]

hmm mkay

[rocky notch]

I did the why major in that space since it's only 100 words and then prayed I got an interview for why MIT

[outer mountain]

I wouldn’t rely on the interview for the why MIT

[rocky notch]

yeah I didn't want to but I don't believe 100 words is enough to write something meaningful about both, and I wanted to write about major

also I feel like it's different than Common App colleges since MIT is another platform it shows that you want to go there more than other schools (to an extent)

[tight shore]

I only said one sentence about MIT for that one

It was in the end

I don't think it matters though?

I used like ten words for that

Maybe ask other accepted people

@plalts

Wtf

?

Did she leave

[placid prairie]

💀

[long spruce]

Honestly based

If I got into MIT I would leave as well

💀

[full lynx]

she was chill

from nyc

[tight shore]

She said she was locking in

Locking in for waht idk lmao

[rocky notch]

rip 💀

I don't think overanalyzing all of these questions is the right answer

as the wise petey once said,

to apply sideways is wisdom. to apply forwards is folly. to apply backwards is heresy
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[little sequoia]

maybe i should leave

[simple oracle]

What about upside down?

[fresh mirage]

applying backwards

lol

"do NOT accept me"

[simple oracle]

How about in a car

[rocky notch]

if you apply backwards while upside down would you technically be applying forwards?

in that case you should still apply sideways then even if you're upside down

[simple oracle]

Sam I Am?

[rocky notch]

I do not like that Sam I Am

[simple oracle]

What about ham?

[rocky notch]

I do not like them, Sam I Am

I do not like green eggs and ham

-# regular ham I have no issues with

[cursive hazel]

i’ve finally made an mit account yay

[rocky notch]

hooray!

you still have like 10 days

[molten mauve]

I did more Why MIT during my interview

My interviewer said it was the most comprehensive answer she’s ever heard 💀 idk if that’s good or bad

[limpid walrus]

My interview was buns and I got in you’re chilling

[molten mauve]

oh well i got deferred

tbh my interview went pretty well overall since i had a good list of questions to ask

and we had some stuff in common as well so we talked for a good hour

ill just wait till march

[long spruce]

Same, my interview went really well so I got false hope lol

Seems like they unfortunately don't consider it much though

From what I've seen online

[normal stag]

Honestly I keep stressing about my interview so I'm kinda glad of this

All I can think about is all the times I was really awkward and didn't know what to say

I feel like I struggle to get my point across when it's verbal and opposed to written

[long spruce]

Yeah that's valid

Idk I just wish it was weighted equally as essays

Cause I'm not the best at public speaking either, but once I start talking about something I'm passionate about it all just flows

[fallow cliff]

what were your questions?

[molten mauve]

Why major, why mit, what would you change at your school, what worries you about MIT, what would you redo in your high school career

[fallow cliff]

Oh I meant the questions you asked

But thanks for that

[molten mauve]

Oh my bad

She did crew there so I asked a lot about that

And I asked about Greek life as well

And other questions I thought about during my visit

[fallow cliff]

Thanks

[molten mauve]

Also we were talking about AI so I asked how she implemented them in her work

[full lynx]

@sour path hello mit class of 2029

mituzz?

[civic sail]

For the MIT maker portfolio, are all coding projects required to have me attach a github repo with the full code for the project?

[haughty token]

Pretty sure