Thread: Does M.I.T./Yale Success = FIRST Dean's List Finalist/Winner?
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Re: Does M.I.T./Yale Success = FIRST Dean's List Finalist/Winner?
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Originally Posted by Michael Blake View Post
Siri... "top schools want DLs"?! SHOW ME the evidence supporting this _desire_, or stop posting on this.

WHAT is the actualization, WHAT is the _results_ of the statement "top schools want DLs"?!

--Michael
For 2010 and 2011 Dean's List winners, at least 8 (of 20) attended MIT, WPI, or Yale. At least 2 were accepted by MIT, and decided to attend elsewhere. 1 also had a spot reserved in Yale's graduate school, upon completion of their undergraduate degree.

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Jeff... there ABSOLUTELY is a known base-line in the objective measurements, both M.I.T. and Yale publish their data. ALL I'm talking about is the middle 50-percentile range. If you hit the numbers it's NOT a factor that has to be outweighed with other strengths or explained with a story.
For MIT's 2012 class, those numbers included an approx 17% acceptance rate for people scoring 2400 on their SAT's. Which means that more than 4 out of 5 still wouldn't be admitted. As has been mentioned, there isn't some magic number that makes admitance automatic.
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