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Unread 25-12-2014, 10:30
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On to my 16th year in FRC
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Re: I'm an MIT Admissions Officer & longtime FIRST person, AMA.

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Originally Posted by Petey View Post
A few years ago we manually tabulated involvement with FIRST on every enrolling student's application and I think came up with something like 10% of the class that we allowed FIRST to quote publicly. To be honest, I'm not sure how meaningful that number was or is.
What are the other 90% of the admitted doing that's better than FIRST, assuming there's a substantially larger number of FIRST students who apply than who are getting in?
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