Just sharing this in case it hasn't been shared here.
I was just reviewing it and saw that in 2021 alone, they received about 85K initial apps, and only about 5K apps were actually approved. The other 80K are just pending.
That's at least $42M in filing fees.
So upsetting they get to keep all that money and all those initial apps are in limbo.
Anyone know what to do when you get deferred? I'm currently debating if I should send my 1130 SAT score rn, i'm currently stressing out rn :/
Intended major (MIT doesn't factor major into decisions): Computer Science
Demographic:
From India
Living in the Portland Area of Oregon
American Citizen
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Unweighted GPA: 4.0 Weighted GPA: 4.22/5.0 | consider that my school only has 19 weighted courses total. Also, they’re all AP courses locked behind prerequisites that make it impossible to even take all of them in one HS career.
SAT: 1500 (710 EBRW, 790 math)
AP’s:
Calculus BC: 4
Calculus AB (subscore): 4
Computer Science A: 4
Computer Science P: 5
Microeconomics: 5
Macroeconomics: 5
AP Physics 1: 5
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10-12th grade Skill Surge Tutoring | Co-founder and CTO | An organization 2 friends and I created to support student education during online school due to the pandemic. We’ve helped well over 1,200 students so far. My responsibilities are managing the software and technological development and strategizing ways to enrich the community.
11-12th grade Study Buddy | Creator and Lead Developer | An application that provides a comprehensive and completely free set of tools to help students in the digital age become better organized and productive so they can one day make a positive impact in the world.
10-12th grade (even earlier, really, but MIT’s max range is 10-12) Self-taught Programming | Self Taught | Self-taught in programming languages C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Java, and Python; in non-programming languages HTML and CSS; and Computer Science concepts such as graph theory and machine learning.
(11-12th grade) Programming Freelancer | Freelancing | Made 3 websites, 2 node applications, and several smaller works. I freelance because I believe that my work will help my clients to one day make a positive change in the world.
(There are more, these are just the 4 I gave to MIT)
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Self-Studied Japanese to the JLPT N4 Level (unofficially) | July to August 2021 | 20 hours/week
Took Harvard’s CS50x Intro to Computer Science Course on Edx | June to July 2021 | 10 hours/week
Read Papers about Neurology and Artificial Intelligence by Various Research Labs in MIT | Summer 2021 | 10 hours/week
Developed Skill Surge Tutoring | Summer 2020 and 2021 | 20 hours/week
Pursued Cooking as a Hobby. | Summer 2020 | 5 hours/week
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If you are deferred through early action will Schools give admission preference to those students after they receive their spring grades or will they truly have to compete with those students that applied regular admission?
Introduced: Sponsor: Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
This bill was referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration.
6 cosponsors are on that committee.
Basically what the title says. Has anyone else experienced this? Typically its the other way around.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ2]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on House Administration which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
2 cosponsors are on that committee.
I am currently overwhelmed by the large number of tasks classified as "next actions". As a result, I want keep separate track of the next actions I want to tackle within the next 3 days ("short term next") vs all the rest ("long term next"). What's the best method?
My current setup on Todoist:
- Projects are stored under "Projects" - with several levels (projects/sub-projects/sub-sub projects).
- One off tasks stored as a single project under "Projects"
- Tags: "next", "waiting"
Possible strategies:
- Tag-based option 1: Apply an additional tag to either the short or the long term next tasks
- Tag-based option 2: Keep "next" tag only on the short term next tasks
- Calendar based: schedule all short term nexts on dates within this week and leave the others without a date.
- Any other?
All these options have a big downside to me which is additional overhead, which I expect to give me more resistance to manage my GTD. Any ideas or perspectives of someone who has dealt with a similar problem are appreciated.
I what is regular deferred action?
Just wondering because I can’t find any information involving this
Just wondering if any paralegals or attys or applicants on this thread have gotten any deferred action approvals or final approvals on u visas.
The last deferred action notice our office received was on 07/15/2020 for a case that was submitted on 11/30/2015.
The last final approval notice we got was on 7/16/2020 for a case submitted on 06/30/2015.
Is this what everyone else is seeing for their pending apps? I guess I am just trying to see what everyone is saying to their clients. For example, if I have a client that applied in 11/2016, I tell them that hopefully in like a year, more or less, they will get deferred action.
Does what state you are located in affect this? Our office mainly works with clients in PA and NJ. I recently saw someone post that they are located in Cali and their case from 02/2016 already got their pre-approval.
Also, does anyone feel like cases at NSC are getting RFE'd more frequently than cases at VSC? or that the NSC officers are much more strict than officers at VSC?
Just wondering for myself!
