The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.
If you have not yet done so, you will need to register for a MyMIT account. The account provides a number of benefits, including:
- Access to the online application
- Contact information for your EC (interviewer)
- Application document tracking
- Financial aid document tracking
- Online decisions
- Registration for an overnight visit at MIT
- and more...
Here's this year's calendar of application-related dates:
Early Action
- October 20: Last day to contact your interviewer and set up an interview
- November 1: Deadline for Early Action application (postmark deadline for mailed materials)
- November: Last month to take standardized tests for Early Action application
- Mid-December: Early Action applicants notified of admission decision
- February 15: Receipt deadline for all Financial Aid materials
- April 1: All applicants notified of financial aid package
- May 1: Deadline for enrollment decision of accepted students
Regular Action
- December 10: Last day to contact your interviewer and set up an interview
- January 1: Deadline for Regular Action application (postmark deadline for mailed materials)
- January: Last month to take standardized tests for Regular Action application. If you take the January test, you must list MIT as a school to receive your scores when you take the test or we will not receive them in time for our review.
- February 15: Receipt deadline for all Financial Aid materials
- Mid to Late-March: Regular Action applicants notified of admission decision
- April 1: All applicants notified of financial aid package
- May 1: Postmark deadline for enrollment decision of accepted students
We'll be talking more about the application in depth over the coming months. Stay tuned...
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Do you happen to have the time they will post it? You know, just to make the camper's lives a little easier.
Posted by: Burst on August 3, 2008
Of course this does mean that I'm going to be checking MyMIT constantly at work tomorrow. Is there a release time yet?
Posted by: Bethan on August 3, 2008
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Posted by: mina on August 3, 2008
4 days' delay is not a big deal in numerical sense, anyway. But it reflects a certain kind of attitude.
God please, the number 13 is already bad enough. Why do we have to take more?
Posted by: Steven Hsi on August 3, 2008
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Posted by: 0 on August 3, 2008
What exactly is the time... of tomorrow?
since it's an 24 hour time frame...
it is going to be the last nano second of Monday huh... xDDD
Posted by: Mgccl on August 3, 2008
Much appreciated.
Posted by: 0 on August 3, 2008
Posted by: Weezy Baby on August 3, 2008
oh and, @ahana: begins. the anxiety is definitely only beginning.
:D
Posted by: Shamarah on August 3, 2008
Posted by: kasey on August 3, 2008
Best of luck to everyone!
Posted by: Paul on August 3, 2008
Posted by: Omar on August 3, 2008
Now expect hundreds of thousands of hits to the MyMIT portal in the next 24 hours...
Posted by: Noelle on August 3, 2008
RELAX, you have 3 months to finish this thing.
Posted by: '11 on August 3, 2008
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Posted by: Alex on August 3, 2008
Wow, I'm old, and excited.
Posted by: Meagan on August 3, 2008
So are the 2012's kicked off by my.mit tomorrow?
</3
Posted by: Yuzhi '12 on August 3, 2008
Also, second on Yuzhi'12's question; I'll miss my myMIT =S
Posted by: Ty'12 on August 3, 2008
Applying online is a LOT easier, though, so I definitely recommend transferring your responses from the paper to the internets afterwards. It is nice to know that once you've hit 'submit' the admissions office for sure has your application and there's no chance that it got lost in the mail.
Posted by: Karen on August 3, 2008
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Posted by: JML on August 4, 2008
clock is ticking.
only 23 and a half hour left, soon... soon...
Posted by: Mgccl on August 4, 2008
Posted by: Tong '12 on August 4, 2008
It's also interesting that the next class (2013) is already applying, before the previous class (2012) has even arrived on campus.
Best of luck to all!
Posted by: Erika '12 on August 4, 2008
Posted by: Aditi on August 4, 2008
I, for one, support Barack and wish you would stop being so mean to him.
Posted by: Snively on August 4, 2008
Oh, I feel so sorry, Paul. Maybe I've just been too cynical on this. Well, in my country, things almost all go like what I previously said, and I am so frustrated by that, you know.
Yeah, I understand there has also been a hard situation in MIT. But at least we should have been informed on the possible impact of the staff changes. A lot of guys like me are crazy about the Tute, and this admiration is not just being some kind of frenzy, it is a belief, that MIT is really sometwhere different, and a place where we could explore with fascination and excitement we've never experienced before.
You know I come from China. Of course, from my email address you could see that. And actually several days delay won't significantly affect my application. But what you don't know is that I've been striving 3 years to earn a pilgrimage to the Tute, for my parents could not even afford me to take a virtual trip to USA with a total family saving of 50,000 RMB or roughly $ 7,000 in US dollars. I know in the US applying to MIT is a pretty cool idea. But for a poor boy from China, it is a totally different thing. You may imagine how many sneers and obstacles I have received during 3 years, from both peers and teachers. But actually you can't. Just as I could not have figured out the real attitude of you guys on a Chinese basis, you have a good chance to have no ideas about the ordeals in Chinese high schools as well.
In China, it has long been a privilege to the rich families to design their kids to attend top universities in the US, even most of these institutes offer need-blind or need-based scholarship for international applicants. One reason is simple enough, that acquiring relative language training has to cost a considerable amount of money, let alone "international exchange students" programs. Students like me from poor families are initially deprived of these opportunities. Making it worse, since transcripts from Chinese high schools have long enjoyed a notorious reputation for not being reliable and veracious (maybe not the applicants' fault, the mechanics is decided by the educational system and schools' purposes), the only dependable academic standard left is SAT scores. But how could these students from poor families earn a decent score in SAT without having the opportunies I mentioned above in the first place? Also, flying to Hongkong to take a test is not a small expenditure. Such students are often daunted by the expense at first glance so they just decide never to go abroad.
Coming back to myself, I applied to MIT 2 years ago when I was 15. But because of my so-so grades and performance, I was denied. Then I came back to junior grade again to prepare for the application, in a different school. And I feel neither proud nor dejected to say that it has been my fourth year in high school now (Chinese high schools have 3 school years in total.) Yeah, it must have been a joke for my teachers when I told them that I was going to apply to MIT again.
Truely, my performance in the last year of my former high school had been awful, due to the fact that a large amount of time was spent on preparing for SAT. But they didn't give me even a last piece of respectation or dignity. They knew I had no money and I hadn't been doing very well on my grades in former years, so when I told them this, they bullied me with a possible expel from my new school for "messing around."
Since last year, I've been working extremely hard and as result, I became top in the grade and ranked NO.1 in last final examination. But I know this will give me no advantage at all, because every applicant from my country is a "top student" in the school report, and a lot of Americans really believe in that! So I got to get down to the SAT again but certainly had no time. My teachers forbade any sort of "irregular activity" of me, and I even had to sneak to the music room to practice the piano at 4.30 in the morning simply because they thought it has nothing to do with my study (plus, I study in a boarding school, and we have lessons 7 days of a week, with a half-day break on Sundays)! This situation had last until this May, when my teachers and I finally reached an agreement that as long as I kept top in the grade, they wouldn't interfere with my application. Therefore, I got a hectic month at last, and finally I received a score of 2,200 in June's SAT I and 2,390 in May's SAT II.
After all this, I am applying to the Tute now!
Paul, I am not trying to convince you and there is nothing for me to brag about if I applied on the first day. But this is how MIT means to me. If you really had known how much a boy from a normal Chinese family had endured in fighting a way here, you would have understood his disappointment when he missed the first day.
Good luck!
Posted by: Steven on August 4, 2008
I've built an SMS platform before and I'm ready to offer it to MIT for use to alert prospective applicants when vital information is made ready!
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looking forward to it..
my senior year is really getting to me now
Posted by: Eddie on August 4, 2008
@ '11 yes, we know we have 3 months, but if we start now we can perfect it, so maybe we can actually get in instead of just dreaming of getting in. and its so much better to be doing something than just sitting and waiting!
Posted by: Rebecca '13...hopefully! on August 4, 2008
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But soon...
Posted by: Ahana on August 4, 2008
Posted by: Rebecca on August 4, 2008
I support Senator Obama too. I'm just messing with the fake impostor :p. I seriously doubt that the real Obama would be here. LOL
Posted by: Alex on August 4, 2008
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Posted by: Alex on August 4, 2008
waiting a few hours for the application isn't going to hurt you.
i'm sure MIT will take a class of 2013 and that you will all have time to do up your applications and check them over well and have your best possible chances at admission.
don't get me wrong, i've refreshed a few times too, but i'm not letting it get to me... i have too much AP summer homework to focus on... and paintings to paint and ice cream to eat.
good luck, and stay calm!
Posted by: JU on August 4, 2008
but I suppose I'm getting ahead of myself...haha.
Posted by: Amelia on August 4, 2008
go fix yourself something nice to eat, grab a good book, and enjoy the summer a bit instead
Posted by: JU on August 4, 2008
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But who knows... Maybe we crashed the server or something.
Posted by: Alex on August 4, 2008
I've been waiting all day for this! I drove my colleagues crazy checking this all the time.
Posted by: Bethan on August 4, 2008
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Posted by: Alex on August 4, 2008
My name is Matt and I'm a rising junior at MIT. I couldn't help but hear about all the commotion on the blogs about the online application. I would just like to suggest that anyone out there who's checking every hour for the application to calm down. Your chances of getting in do not increase because you're going to send your application 3 months early. I understand that MIT is probably one of your top choices and getting in would mean the world to you but you should enjoy relax and enjoy your summer. Please understand that people in the admissions office are working hard and any delays on their part have proper justification. Well...good luck and maybe I'll see you in Sept. 2009.
Posted by: Matt on August 4, 2008
Good luck everyone, I wish you the best.
Posted by: Meghan '12 on August 4, 2008
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Posted by: Alex on August 4, 2008
http://web.mit.edu/admissions/common/toobusy.html
Thanks for hogging the server,guys:P
Posted by: Ahana on August 4, 2008
Posted by: Alex on August 4, 2008
Hurry up, foo!
=P
Posted by: 0 on August 4, 2008
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bite bite bite...
oh it hurts!!!
the flesh is out!!!
Posted by: Pranabes on August 4, 2008
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Posted by: Dima '12 on August 4, 2008
Is it usual to get an EC you already know? Is that a good thing? Is it also a good thing to have an interview with someone interested in your field? I don't know how the interviews go - would it be good to have someone you can "talk shop" with (which would be awesome :D) or does it not matter?
Also, do the teacher evaluations have to be on the forms on the application page? I've already got letters of recommendation on mostly-similar-but-not-exactly-the-same forms. Will the Admissions Ninjas hunt me down for this?
Posted by: Jonathan on August 4, 2008
I'd for your EC, so long as they're someone you can easily have a conversation with, you're in good shape. The more you have to talk about and the more comfortable you are talking with them, the better! Though already knowing your EC may cause bias...
And for teacher evaluations -- the checklists do have to be on those forms, but the free response questions can be replaced by a letter or your school's own questions, I think. There are instructions about that on the page.
Good luck!
Posted by: JU on August 4, 2008
But you probably knew that.
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Sorry about that.
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Posted by: nickwasy on August 4, 2008
GOLD!
yes, by doing some single displacement reactions.
Posted by: Mgccl on August 4, 2008
In conclusion, relax.
Posted by: esaite on August 4, 2008
Good luck hopeful '13s!!!!!
Posted by: Shari '12 on August 4, 2008
Posted by: Noelle on August 4, 2008
When I applied last year, I didn't even start looking at, much less to say begin!, the MIT app until late Nov. =p
But then again, I didn't EA.
Posted by: Oasis '11 on August 4, 2008
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Posted by: saad on August 5, 2008
I think some relaxation, mulling, and plenty of chocolate are definitely in order. I can absolutely see the thrill of having the app out and in your hands (I was there too), but I read the essay questions once, jotted down a few ideas, and then left everything alone. I think just letting it all ferment for a while really helps - even if it's just a day or two!
Posted by: Shivani on August 5, 2008
Posted by: saad on August 5, 2008
Now I feel like such a slob for procrastinating.
Good luck again prospies
Posted by: Aditi on August 5, 2008
You should know that the admissions people are flexible and understanding with the app. They will take care of you so just relax a bit.
If you haven't already, read some of Ben's old blogs about admission, and read last year's admitted/deferred/declined blogs.
Use this, your senior year, to grow up a bit. I don't mean this in a mean way, I'm just saying that you will mature a lot by going through things like college apps, graduation, seeing your friends leave. This time next year you'll be in my shoes, trying to help out the '14s in whatever way you can.
If you are creative/artistic, let it show in your app! The essays don't even have to be "essays" per say. I submitted a poem, many stanzas long, as my final "give us anything else you think we should know" response.
Love MIT. It will love you back. Feel free to IM me or email me at mferraro@mit.edu if there is any way I can help any of you guys.
Posted by: Matt '12 on August 5, 2008
Posted by: anon '12 on August 5, 2008
Thanks a lot for the advice...I see what MIT means when it says everybody likes to help around:)
I'm finally cooled down, and probably I can think better. I obsessively went through Matt and Ben's blogs last night waiting for the application!
Posted by: Ahana on August 5, 2008
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Posted by: Kim on August 5, 2008
I like the app a lot! It's genuine and reflective of MIT and all of it's individuality. I'm mostly focused on what I want to do with that blank gaping optional writing section.
I have one question: for the optional supplement section, I want to submit some creative writing pieces. Although I'm now compiling a portfolio for the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, I've never submitted any work to a competition or gotten any particular recognition for creative writing. And so, should I do it?
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If your creative writing is something that you think will allow the readers to see you more wholly and personalize you, I would DEFINITELY include it.
Posted by: Jeremy '12 on August 5, 2008
Posted by: esaite on August 5, 2008
(I imagine if you're going through tons of apps you eventually pick one up and sigh and go "oh, maaan, another long one", or "Yay, this one's short!)
As in, is it more risky to say too much or to leave something that may look strange unexplained?
Posted by: JU on August 6, 2008
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Posted by: Omar on August 6, 2008
Posted by: Ahana on August 6, 2008
Omar was right when he said that the readers are lax about the word limit for the main essay. But as Jeremy '12 mentioned, making your application go on and on may not necessarily be in your favor, so don't go too far over.
However, breaking the word limit only applies for the main essay where you upload the file. The two optional essays, you copy and paste the essays onto the application (if you do it online) and the program checks the number of words (i think its 500 per essay) and won't let you send off the application until they meet the word limit.
Posted by: Lauren '12 on August 6, 2008
A few words of advice:
Appreciate this application. It's by far the best; it's fun and easy to fill out, and by the time I was done I knew that the people in the applications office would really get a sense of who I am. You won't always have that feeling with college applications, so appreciate it!
Be honest. This seems like a really dumb and obvious bit of advice, but it's so important. I was not the "typical" MIT applicant; I haven't won a thousand robotics competitions or math decathlons and I didn't get straight A's in high school. However, I took the time to clearly talk about myself and my situation and things worked out. This honesty thing applies to form as well as content; my essays were not the standard college essay, but again, I wasn't the standard college applicant. If you think that you can best convey who you are in a five paragraph essay, go for it, but same goes for a series of haikus or whatever. Actually I imagine the haikus might be a little annoying... =P
Recommendations are so important! Make sure the people writing them really know you, and can speak to all the facets of who you are. I also wouldn't shy away from sending supplementary ones, if you really think they add something to your app.
Basically, everything I've said can be summarized by saying make sure you are conveying who you are as a *person*, not just as an applicant.
So yeah, if you want to talk to someone about college stuff, drop me a line at hadley at mit dot edu. And good luck!
Posted by: Hadley'12 on August 6, 2008
I Know I'm a latecomer to this whole debacle, but I read your story and found it pretty inspiring. I wish you the best of luck in your apps, as I wish all the prospective students.
time flies, I can't believe it's that time of year again!
Posted by: Chris '12 on August 6, 2008
I've been working with the QuestBridge folks to get that site up, so you should expect to see information up there in the next week or two.
Posted by: Mikey on August 6, 2008
@JU: Werd to Omar and Lauren.
@esaite: Glad I could be of service!
Posted by: Jeremy '12 on August 6, 2008
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Thanks!
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"Road Signs of Unspeakable Chaos"
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Not only is that a very amusing set of 3 page titles, but my search engine knows what I want to major in! My oh my...
Posted by: JU on August 7, 2008
3/2+7-9+7/8-1/3 = ?
If you can answer this in less than 4 secs, you are in the game.
Chk out www.numberiq.com In 90 seconds, you will know how unique is your number skills.
The 99.9999 percentile (1 in a million) score is 276.
All the best!
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