How I got accepted to MIT for grad school
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- This is the beginning of a series of videos where I document my 10 year journey towards getting accepted into my dream school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As an international student, we don't all get access to resources and guidance as easily as kids do in more developed countries like the US. My chances of getting in was low, but I eventually build my knowledge and skills up to be ready to contribute to future innovations at the MIT Media Lab.
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Let me know if you have any feedback or questions. Would also love to hear your story.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I wonder if by any chance I can get your advice for the SOP.
@@seungkihong4830 of course, planning to share my SOP in another video and provide some tips. Are you applying soon? What is your timeline?
Hi! Thank you so much for sharing your story! I have the almost exact situation! I’m a senior right now, same dream to work at the media lab and bring ideas to life. I did okay in school and would say I was a good student in terms of gpa and grades. I am involved with sports for two years and in nhs because that was mainly all the clubs and extracurricular offered. But same as you I never did anything related to build on my passions in stem. I was the same as you in terms of failing the act and sat being below average. I am/was so discouraged and heartbroken about my scores and now it’s too late for this application season to bring them higher. I want to apply but I know my scores would be an absolute turnoff in terms of admission. But your story gave me something to look forward to and that there’s still some hope to continue to work hard and try again in the future. Thank you so much! ❤
Is it possible for you to write me a recommendation letter for their grad school?
Thank you for the video. It really motivated me to do my best till the end. So, I have like 3 gpa in my undergraduation(I was suffering from some health problems and was depressed and now I'm not feeling confident about applying to top universities like MIT😅) and I wrote 2 research papers and didn2 projects all in machine learning and i did 1 internship and participated in 1 hackathon(did not select for second round though) and my hobbies are writing books and I published one book...so can you recommend me what else should I do so that it can increase my chances at doing masters at MIT in machine learning?... thank you so much
Extremely inspiring. This shows that you don't need a fancy education to achieve your dreams. PERSISTENCE and HARDWORK is the key. Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you!
This inspires me so much and I want to give you my thanks. My dream is to go to MIT, but I've been dealing with a lot of things like mental health problems. After joining two clubs in highschool, I stopped going and I got even more depressed. Now I'm back and fired up, and my goal is to start small and take a big leap and get into MIT for graduate school. Going for UMASS Amherst as my first goal, I hope I can ignite my passion over there.
Thanks a lot for sharing your journey. It inspires a lot of students like me here in India.
Thanks for the nice message! Wish you luck in everything
I’m not pursuing computer programs but thank you for inspiring while trying to get to any dream grad school abroad. Pray for me. I’m glad you persevered!
Good luck!
It has been my dream for over 10 years to go to MIT Media Lab for Grad School. I am still trying. Hopefully, I will get in soon and work with you shortly.
What a beautiful story, you were Like Leo Messi you never gave up your dreams and that’s a tremendous thing to take as an example
I live in Kenya, which means that if you are not reallllly rich you’re not going to get the guidance you need because the schools literally everyone else goes to and I go to really only care about your grades. I’m leaving Kenya to finish highschool in Canada so I have about 2 months of no school, I decided to learn programming and arduino because I never really won anything when I was younger and never really took any chances, I felt so behind in everything when I would look at students’ MIT maker portfolios and all. This really motivates me to put in the work now, thanks for the video🙏🏽
Thanks for sharing your story! Good luck
I'm Sooo thankful to you from the bottom of my heart. I'm an 18 yo kid in india having a dream to get into mit. But i couldn't crack Olympiads i couldn't get into the best private high school. My dream crashed and i was totally depressed that im not going to go in the top universities of india or even mit. But watching this video i feel so relateble and i will make the most out of the 4 years of engineering ahead from a decent engineering college in india not the best but ya still pretty good opportunities and clubs. If u are able to share more details on ur journey please do will be grateful to you regarding harvard and max plank internships or hackathons. Pls a humble request. Again thanks for giving hope again.
Thanks for sharing your story! No matter what happens in the end, there are still so many things we could do to be successful and find happiness. You don’t need an mit degree to be successful in the end. I feel like I didn’t end up using my degree at all 😂
Congrats. My story is also similar to you. I too want to be an inventor, get my hands dirty and build something. But I'm too stupid. I too never was able to clear the round 1 of any of the olympiads, never excelled in school. My english was aweful at that point to apply for unis in US. So I dropped the thought of it, planned to apply for masters later on, and decided to become fluent in english along with 4 yrs of undergrad from my country. But that too isn't going quite well. I failed getting into top notch uni in my country. So I had to settle for a lower one. I'm in my 4th yr of my UG, all my friends got their dream job with dream salaries, and I'm still unemployed getting rejected over and over again since July. I'm just way too stupid for anything. Prior to all of this, I decided that I'll spend 1-2 yrs earning money from the job to do masters as it is hard to get scholarships for masters. But I don't think that plan is going quite well. I feel crushed inside, seeing my dreams getting shattered every now and then. I cry every late night. I'm barely living. I'm a loser. Also, I'm growing old and the responsibilities to earn money to support family are kicking in. I have way too much pressure, and my brain and luck aren't on my side. I want to live my dreams as well. I don't know. I just want to give up life. Thats all I ponder every now and then.
I feel you. Sometimes, you just have to stop following the same steps that everybody else is doing. You do not need to be good in your classes to be good at building things. There are a lot of tutorials out there teaching us how to do cool things. In my next video, I will talk about the first side project I worked on and how that taught me that even though i am not that good at engineering, I can still build stuff. Honestly, some of us are better at learning when we do projects without grades. I built a 3D printer following a bunch of tutorials online. That gave me the confidence to go on learning and keep building. Also, you don't need good grades to get your dream job. For example, if you are an electrical engineer, you can learn to build a robot using arduino or raspberry pi. Then you learn more about the different sensors you can add to your Arduino. All that by following tutorials. If you are a computer science student, it's even easier. You can watch youtube videos on different concepts and use website like Leetcode to learn different algorithms. Once you have practiced enough, you will start seeing patterns that you can use during your interviews. Will cover more about all these in my upcoming videos. Stay strong, Edwin. You will get there. I will be rooting for you.
@@ApprenticeDiary Thank you for your kind words. Yes. I have stopped following others. I'm moulding my own path to success but it is discouraging sometimes seeing others. The problem is, I'm interested in other fields as well despite having computer science as my major. Sometimes I do get confused which path to follow in the future. Although with the little time left (whenever I find), I manage to learn about those fields as well. Before, I thought I would study about them for the majority time once I got a job. But the added delays to my plans really upsets me. Thank you for sharing your journey. I'll be definitely be this to my inspiration list.
That is truly inspirational and made me emotional. I applied to MIT grad school and I am currently anticipating the results. They should come out this week and there is nothing I want more
Good luck!
@@ApprenticeDiary I got admitted 😍.
@@restevomfeste8180 congratulations 🎉!!!
Exciting news, congratulations!
Really inspiring! You're a genius! Keep your head high always, ma'am! ❤
Appreciate the kind words! Thank you so much for supporting.
Wow that's so motivating! I am so happy for you, what we can imagine is the only border for ourselves!!!
You are so inspiring! Your story is so encouraging ! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much!
This is so surreal, I have always wanted to go to MIT media lab and was asking for a sign today for what I should pursue and do with my life. What are the odds that I ended up on this video, of another girl who happens to be from panama who also loves HCI ❤🇵🇦
Good luck!!! You can do it!
Elena me encanta tu canal!
Eres inspiradora y dedicada en tus metas y sueños del presente y del futuro =)
Muchas gracias Milton!
3.50 gpa for senior year in high school? That's pretty good, imo. I didn't even get that kind of gpa while I was in high school.
Not high school, college 🤣
I can feel you. I'm in my 3rd year at uni and can't do well in academics. My cgpa is only 2.5 out of 4. There's not too much remaining time available to re-enroll into previous courses and gain good grades.
I don't even know what tf I should do now.
When I saw you were about to break inside during the first half of video I can feel that as I remember what tf I did my whole life.
Glad that you were able to achieve your goals.
Hey can the improvement of grades effect our admission in masters?
@@hassanshah482 yes it can let you catch someone's eyes. Many teachers will also look for lower grades but with academic papers and other experiences. But with good grades you can be on top of others. Like, if someone has the same qualifications as you but also good grades to show their continuous working capabilities then why should they take you instead? It's a normal thing!
Actually ivy leagues and harvard like universities actually degrade the students who looks for admission there but the repeating or improving of grades badly effect our admission there..this info was given to me by a harvard alumini
@@hassanshah482 many private schools won't add that you taken an improvement course in the certificate. So unless they contact your undergraduate schools specially to know about this then you're safe!
They required the transcripts and there every grade improved or repeated shown thats the real problem and according to my opinion they should encouraged students like that..infact they all upon those who have consistent good grades without repeatation and only this channel lady can guide us
this is inspiring!! thank you :")
Thank you for the video :)
Yes! Thank you.
Can you image the previous Dean has a scandal? Marilee Jones, then dean of admissions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resigned after the university confirmed that she had claimed academic degrees she never earned. She had claimed at various points to hold degrees from Albany Medical College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College -- she didn't hold degrees from any of those colleges. what a shame on MIT! And how dare Marilee Jones!
No idea... politics is beyond me
I am so happy to find this channel, and I hope you can respond to several questions please, I want to know if your process during enrolling at MIT starts from preparing your documents until in application process.
Thanks for the support! All the application info is on the mit website.
Thank you, this is very inspirational. I just got deferred from MIT EA a week ago:/
Good luck!
I just very surprised bout your journey to the MIT . Cause MIT is my dream university and I believe that one day I’ll go to the MIT . Anyway…
I wanna ask you a question:
Have you ever tried Khan Academy ?
Cause It’s one of the certain references to learn anything; even for SAT !
I used to reference it back when i was in college. Good for math!
🎉🎉❤❤
Hi everyone I want to be good at programming and coding. But I want to take a mathematics major . Because I love equally passionate physics, mathematics and computer science . I want to confuse either computer science with physics or computer science with mathematics. So I want to major in physics with mathematics and become a programmer. What you give suggestions please.
Robotics maybe?
MIT grad is my dream
Then go for it. Good luck
Can u please do a video on how you got the scholarship 😊
I have a question does the improvements or repeating of subjects at university effects our admission at MiT for masters programme plz guide
Those are very specific and I am not sure how that could affect. All I can think of is, if I were competing with a bunch of other candidates who are way stronger in grades than me, what can I do to stand out. Maybe work on projects that are similar to the research group, work with professors or students who are connected to the research group of interest, etc.
Thank you very much so I have to create a strong research profile along with good cgpa
nice
👏👏👏👏
Can you tell me how to get into MIT
❤
What's the minimum gpa requirement out of 4.0 for masters at MIT
Honestly, GPA does not matter much. I had a 3.44 GPA in undergrad and was not a stellar academic student. Mainly connections thanks for my Harvard experience. network network network!
How did you work at max planck institute
Emailed a few professors who were at the Media Lab and one of them was doing a temporary project there but originally from MPI in Germany. Good timing, his PhD student was working on 3D printing stuff and I was interning at Harvard doing 3D printing stuff.
Can u help me to get mit as scholarship and u from India will u help me i m in 12 grade now
I am applying to phd program in universities,
and i am confused about the type of Sop or cv i should write to do so...
Every graduate program is different. Most of them requires you to write about your motivation and research of interest. It’s better if you get to know the program or research group you want to get into and contact the professors and their students to get a better idea of what they are currently working on. Use that as the basis to help you write your sop. Make some suggestions as to what you could do and show you got the skills to do them. It’s important to also show your ideas align with their current research… that is why it’s good to talk with their current students.
Hello! What is the scholarship that allowed you to study for free in any uni in the world?
It’s a scholarship from my country Panama. Mainly for studying engineering at top universities outside.
Hola, espero que estés bien.
Tengo una duda, ¿es posible entrar al MIT con cualquier edad? ¿Ya sea para una carrera o un posgrado?
Yo creo que la educación no tiene edad con tal de que tengas algo que contribuir. He visto gentes en sus 40s comenzando el doctorado.
Especialmente si es maestría o mba, cualquier edad puede entrar. Ya que una maestría usualmente la toman para cambiar de carrera o algo similar.
@@ApprenticeDiary espero hacerlo en un futuro cercano jaja muchas gracias 👍
OMG so I’m not crazy for the Iron Man dream lol
I’m thinking of applying for masters can you help me out with some stuffs related to masters in US
Not sure if I could help. Feel free to post your questions here and I will get to them when I am free.
😂 even your dad call it is scam
I knowwww!
Hi , My name is Afzal Khan . I am 14 year old from India . My dream is to Study in USA and my favourite college is MIT i wanna do bachelors in 'Computer science' , presently i am in 8th grade and i started to do prepare for my Abroad education and i thought you are the someone who can help me with my doubts and question and guide me . I hope u will help me if you are agree to help me just give me your Email so we can talk there . Thanks