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Just_Assignment9246 t1_izhchx4 wrote

Email and see if you can schedule a zoom with someone with admissions. Guessing by your post that you’re trying to develop a personnel contact to increase your chances, “not how to contact them.”With any organization you have to do some investigating and try to use some finesse when reaching out. If you get in be prepared for very long hours, my advisor went there for undergrad and graduate school and he said he was putting on average over 70 hours a week. I put in around 50ish hours in my grad program so a super prestigious degree also requires a lot of pain and sacrifice. FYI, one of my cousins didn’t get in there for undergrad or PhD and he won the Texas science fair for high school-age students and graduated from Stanford with a master’s degree and he works on rockets, so expect to be rejected unless you’re in the top 0.3 percent of your class or have something really making you stand out. Also, a ton of international students at MIT so I don’t think they’ll discriminate against you because you’re from India. Maybe someone in this subreddit goes to MIT, almost all of my professors are MIT graduates and they love to remind us that they went to MIT (I go to Tufts nearby a very good school but not super elite like Harvard or MIT).

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