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Originally Posted by Michael Blake
STILL, it wasn't enough for those, at M.I.T. and Yale, who are represented to "love" and "want" Dean's List Finalist applicants...
--Michael
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As a high school student planning on applying at MIT, this is something I've personally had to make piece with. I had a chance to talk to some interviewers, and the fact is, as so many people have already said, there are simply too few spots for too many qualified applicants.
I think this interviewer told me something along the lines of "after a certain level, it's not what your grades or your extracurriculars were, it's what time the readers looked through your application."
She also told me that most of the applicants to MIT would be well suited to it. There's a certain caliber of student it takes to even consider applying. As a Junior waiting in the calm before the storm, I can't help but look in with dismay-- it looks like chaos from the outside, and from what I've heard from survivors, it sounds like chaos on the inside and afterwards.
I completely agree with Tuesday:
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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday
I think it serves underscoring that college admissions at the highest level is a crapshoot. Your son got unlucky, pure and simple.
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