Getting into MIT is impossible

According to Rick Osborne:

"I disagree and can speak from experience.  I was denied admission to MIT
even thought I had a 3.82 GPA, 1440 SAT (one try), and had taken 9 AP tests
with two 5's, four 4's, two 3's, and one 2.  As for being well-rounded, I
was on several academic teams, sang in Chorus, acted and stage managed in
Drama, and played Tennis."

People get into MIT--or don't get into MIT--for lots of reasons. Most
intelligent people apply to several schools, knowing that admissions
practices are subject to the vagaries of reality.

In my case, my SATs were about 1500, with some 800s in achievement tests.
And the usual bullshit high school clubs, political offices, etc. etc. I
was accepted by MIT, but not by Caltech. I didn't lose any sleep over the
way things turned out.

And I decided not to go to MIT, either.

"The only thing I didn't have that the next MIT applicant had was money.  I
made the mistake of letting them know that I was dirt poor and would need
full aid/grants/etc, and to quote "The Great Escape" it was "Zzzt! To the
Russian front!""

My guess is that "other factors" were involved. 

I noted with some interest, but little surprise, that the guy claiming MIT
required a 4.0 GPA and a 1600 combined SAT score could barely spell, and
had major problems making a coherent point. Methinks this is why MIT
rejected him, not his lack of a "1600."

">For what it's worth, I wanted to go to MIT my sophomore year in high
>school, too

"Lucky you.  It had been a dream of mine since I was an annoying
overachiever of 6.  Sux to be white trash, I guess."

MIT offered me a substantial economic aid package, in the form of loans,
grants, and various campus jobs. What does this tell you?

"MIT may be a great school, but they tend to be snooty assholes for the most
part.  (DISCLAIMER: Not all MIT grads/attendees are necessarily "snooty
assholes", I'm just saying that I've yet to meet one that wasn't.)

I've known about a dozen or so MIT grads, and only one of them was a snooty
asshole, and it was a _she_, one of the first MIT women grads (and she was
_very_ impressed by this). 

Most MIT grads are perfectly reasonable.

Xanthar




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wasn't Dolph Lundgren an MIT grad? I seem to remember something about him 
having a degree in Chemical Engineering  or something along those lines. 

clint barnett
lord of the cosmos
emily carr institute

On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Anonymous wrote:

> 
> 
> According to Rick Osborne:
> 
> "I disagree and can speak from experience.  I was denied admission to MIT
> even thought I had a 3.82 GPA, 1440 SAT (one try), and had taken 9 AP tests
> with two 5's, four 4's, two 3's, and one 2.  As for being well-rounded, I
> was on several academic teams, sang in Chorus, acted and stage managed in
> Drama, and played Tennis."
> 
> People get into MIT--or don't get into MIT--for lots of reasons. Most
> intelligent people apply to several schools, knowing that admissions
> practices are subject to the vagaries of reality.
> 
> In my case, my SATs were about 1500, with some 800s in achievement tests.
> And the usual bullshit high school clubs, political offices, etc. etc. I
> was accepted by MIT, but not by Caltech. I didn't lose any sleep over the
> way things turned out.
> 
> And I decided not to go to MIT, either.
> 
> "The only thing I didn't have that the next MIT applicant had was money.  I
> made the mistake of letting them know that I was dirt poor and would need
> full aid/grants/etc, and to quote "The Great Escape" it was "Zzzt! To the
> Russian front!""
> 
> My guess is that "other factors" were involved. 
> 
> I noted with some interest, but little surprise, that the guy claiming MIT
> required a 4.0 GPA and a 1600 combined SAT score could barely spell, and
> had major problems making a coherent point. Methinks this is why MIT
> rejected him, not his lack of a "1600."
> 
> ">For what it's worth, I wanted to go to MIT my sophomore year in high
> >school, too
> 
> "Lucky you.  It had been a dream of mine since I was an annoying
> overachiever of 6.  Sux to be white trash, I guess."
> 
> MIT offered me a substantial economic aid package, in the form of loans,
> grants, and various campus jobs. What does this tell you?
> 
> "MIT may be a great school, but they tend to be snooty assholes for the most
> part.  (DISCLAIMER: Not all MIT grads/attendees are necessarily "snooty
> assholes", I'm just saying that I've yet to meet one that wasn't.)
> 
> I've known about a dozen or so MIT grads, and only one of them was a snooty
> asshole, and it was a _she_, one of the first MIT women grads (and she was
> _very_ impressed by this). 
> 
> Most MIT grads are perfectly reasonable.
> 
> Xanthar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
>

> I noted with some interest, but little surprise, that the guy claiming MIT
> required a 4.0 GPA and a 1600 combined SAT score could barely spell, and
> had major problems making a coherent point. Methinks this is why MIT
> rejected him, not his lack of a "1600."
 
...  Not to point out something obvious about this but the person who
wrote this did not have "guts" enough or, just likes his privacy a bit
more than the average person, to come out and write this non-anonymously.
But since that isn't why I am writing this, I'll leave off of it for now.
...
The reason I am writing this is because I am "the guy claiming MIT
required a 4.0 GPA and a 1600 combined SAT score."  I was informed this by
my school counselor, along with many other things which are as equally
"obnoxious" to my possible college acceptances.
--  I did point out though, in my letter, that my connection was
experiencing sever lag for some reason.  I did narrow that down to being
because my servers call in server and account server where on two
different networks.  
Another point to this is that in my family I am the best speller.  It is
possibly genetic, but it is mostly because of where I grew up and the
other "backwoodsy" things of my "youth".  Now I realise this sounds like a
bunch of excuses and such, and yes I guess it is, but I can if I sit down
and think about something for a milli second longer than normal, and don't
let my left hand out race my right hand, type things with propper grammer
and spelling to my current extent.

Now if the one who did post that "anonymously" would be so kind as to say
such "brave" statements outloud without his or her precious "anonymousity"
it would be much appreciated.

Other than that, I do believe that is about it to this later.

Goodnight and fare you "well"

Erp


ps -- please excuse the quotes, I was using them for mor eaccenting and
well for words that fit in my own way.  


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