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I felt it personaly. The idea that university in the US take the "best" students really bother me. I got reject from both, CalTech, MIT and Stanford. My curr
by siscia 14y ago
I felt it personaly.
The idea that university in the US take the "best" students really bother me.
I got reject from both, CalTech, MIT and Stanford.
My curricul very shortly is:
Italian student, best of his class. (italian school is a "little" harder tha American)
AFS/Exchange student in America for the school year 2011/12 (GPA 4.0 that year)
Some project on github (does it count ?)
Very good letters from my teacher.
Interest in about every single field (scientific or not)
ACT -> 29
SAT Math2 -> 770
SAT Chem -> 720
Toefl -> 102
Now, I am sure that there are plenty of students better than me, but I feel really bad about that.
On the other side POLIMI, best tech university in Italy, took me in very quickly, but I really wanted to come back in the US.
Sorry about that, but I needed...
- hga 14y agoMIT caps the foreign students in a class at about 15%, so you were competing for one out of a bit over 150 slots. You very possibly made the "Can you do the work?" cut; overall, before applications shot up from 13,000 to 18,000, about 1/3 made that cut, but MIT has room for only a bit over 1,000. It's nothing personal, and the people involved in admissions do not like turning down qualified applicants, but they don't have any choice.
- siscia 14y agoI knew that it was hard, but still really suck when you are rejected no one but three times. Thanks anyway... "Good luck, Bad luck, who knows ?" XP
- tanzam75 14y agoActually, it's even harder than you state. MIT's quota for international applicants is not 15%, but 8%. Sources: (1) http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/international_men_women_of_mys http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/international_men_women... (2) http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/admissions-2011-0404.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/admissions-2011-0404.html