在 CC 上看到的，女娃，进 M 不奇怪，怎么会被其他名校都据了呢

okay so i got rejected from all the ivies plus stanford and jhu (i got into my safeties which is great). but somehow i bagged a spot at mit??  i just want to know if this is normal or what, so I’m going to list my stats below.

gpa (uw/w): 4.0/4.7
sat: 1600
act: 35

major: physics/math double major

female, wasian, middle class, not legacy, small college town in oregon

i took 15 aps total during high school (including ap stats and ap calc bc in freshman year which i thought would give me a boost)

ecs:
math club
math circle at my state uni
started a research writing club in sophomore year
high level piano for 10 years (won national awards + went on a radio show)
not too many volunteer hours, but i started a program giving recitals at nursing homes
nonprofit tutoring which raised a decent amount of money

research/internships/summer programs:

• mites junior summer
• super competitive nasa internship
• promys math summer program
• jhu cty program (i thought this would get me into hopkins )
• physics research at university of oregon
• physics research at a top20

awards (not too many)

• usamo qualifier
• national honor society
• ap scholar

I had great LORs and essays. interviews went pretty okay (especially for princeton so i really thought i got in lol)

so yeah as you can see, decently impressive application (awards were pretty skimpy but i did a ton of research). i didn’t have super high hopes for an ivies or mit, but somehow i got into mit which seems crazy to me since i didn’t have a “hook.”

anyway thanks for reading this!

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• 她这个Profile去哪儿都够了，只是不一定有把握。 在Borderline上，头部学校都报了， -qiandongshenxia- ♂ (42 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:00:34

• JHU不录正常，YP。我朋友家女儿也是今年，profile比这个还强点，哥哥JHU在读呢，被脆锯 -成功的三少爷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:07:12

• JHU的YP真不算大的，它家的RD yield rate很低，好像才百分之四十多。 -phoenix05- ♀ (50 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:09:26

• 那这几个女娃很牛都不收啊？ -成功的三少爷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:13:18

• YP 是啥意思？麻烦扫扫盲。 -littleoak- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:25:01

• Yield Protection. 就是怕你太好了录了也不来，就索性拒了你。 -phoenix05- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:29:34

• 任何情况都可能 -bagel_bites- ♂ (467 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:07:14

• C'mon，MIT不如哪个藤校？ -成功的三少爷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:10:04

• 不是说不如 -bagel_bites- ♂ (112 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:15:43

• 不见的不是她首选，这样profile的女孩在有选择情况下去M可能性也很大。只是录取出乎预料而已 -wd6- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:20:38

• 我对她这段话的理解是打了个M的枣 -bagel_bites- ♂ (285 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:24:04

• 每个人理解不同吧，我理解她主要在带情绪地说就M录了她 -wd6- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:30:21

• 哈佛 -走过岁月- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:14:57

• This is the new normal.把成绩做到头，你能够取得一张彩票。west asian 为何不写穆斯林？ -无言无语无声- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:07:46

• White + Asian吧。混血？ -Bailey4321- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:12:37

• Oh. -无言无语无声- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:18:21

• What? 啥叫wasian? -trivial- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:14:30

• 就是父母一方是白人 -bagel_bites- ♂ (36 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:16:25

• I know. 我是在问层主 -trivial- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:26:58

• Wasian? lol 混血娃？她这就是STEM 女生，其他EC不强。只进M正常啊。 -Bailey4321- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:11:39

• 看钢琴，可能是参加过from the top show的，EC也蛮强的 -wd6- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:17:27

• west asian？ 西亚。AMO厉害所以别的学校认为她肯定去M？ -成功的G- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 14:11:13

• 挺好，省了纠结lol -babyface99- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:15:39

• 这么强的女娃只有MIT录了？ -天意悠悠- ♀ (52 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:16:04

• 所以坦里也不用整天唠叨小中女容易录了。大家都不易 -wd6- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:18:54

• 奇了怪了，今年有几个超牛的小中女很suffer。我朋友家的，早申S被脆锯，所有学校都脆锯，只有最后打开的康大收了 -成功的三少爷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:21:28

• 说不定爸是中国的，一看姓就被扔到亚裔的pool去了 -bagel_bites- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:21:49

• 要是没有申买买提呢？ -成功的乌龟- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:19:58

• 这个profile，如果再不太会写，确实离大藤都远了些，只有MIT对口，录取的profile很靠谱 -windyLL- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 10:42:31

• 缺出彩的文艺和社会活动leadership,我觉得她就差一点点,research的成果也看不出强。最强的是竞赛成绩 -HappyWed- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 11:07:36

• 没有什么奖。 而且PSAT应该不高。连NHS都写上了。 -BLA6- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2024 postreply 11:55:29