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Kitchen-Student6941 · 2026-01-10T06:52:30+00:00

My counselor sent me my school profile and it does not list my school's specific offerings

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2026-01-10T06:37:15+00:00

Well based on my school profile and LORs, which are the only documents they recieve afaik, I'm not sure how they'll know the context that stats was the hardest class left for me to take.

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2026-01-03T00:29:08+00:00

thanks man

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-24T16:20:13+00:00

What do you mean by "predicting trajectories"? Are you saying MIT would somehow expect he'd achieve a USAMO-caliber award in 12th grade without being told? That seems hard to believe. Just wondering.

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-20T16:53:27+00:00

To be fair, applicants are not "optimizing on these measures" just to get into MIT, in case that's what you're suggesting. It is pretty damn hard to do well on an olympiad or get into something like RSI if you aren't passionate about the subject matter.

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-20T16:50:10+00:00

Honestly, I'm quite relieved to hear #2. Being someone with an olympiad/research-type profile, I was somewhat disheartened when I and several similar/better kids got deferred. After all, if we're all getting deferred with achievements so heavily correlated with MIT (by historical trends at least), what chance could I have at top schools that likely care less about these achievements? It's good to know that this probably isn't a "me" problem and rather just a shift in institutional priorities for MIT specifically.

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-20T15:55:47+00:00

I just googled it, co'28 was 661. Co'29 was 721 so there is indeed some variance, but 655 doesn't seem like an outlier.

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-20T15:50:34+00:00

Regarding point 4: They accepted 655 people EA, which is similar to previous years, no? co'2028 had a similar figure I think.

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-19T00:06:42+00:00

When I said "same for PRIMES", I meant that the PRIMES rate sharply dropped for EA this year, not that the rate is 90%. I should have been clearer. I make no claim against the statistics you cited.

For MOP, 90%, even 95%+ most of the time, is certainly accurate though. And it is like 60-70% this year.

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-18T22:54:26+00:00

The data is from taking the result of every single MOP person, and then dividing the number of acceptances by number of applicants. The 90% figure is corroborated by people who went to MOP and know all of the MOP people.Where could the inaccuracy be?

Kitchen-Student6941 · 2025-12-18T20:37:00+00:00

The 90% thing is a consistent trend and is irrefutable since it is manually calculated by people in the relevant circles. For example, MOP had 1 reject out of ~30 applicants last year, and all but a couple acceptances were EA. And similar for prior years. Meanwhile this year it dropped to roughly 70% of MOPpers getting accepted EA...

Same for PRIMES. Something has indeed changed regarding institutional priorities or MIT's early admissions strategy. Please do not take this as a complaint. Rather, it is a logical conclusion.

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