Sloan (MIT) Class of 2016 Calling all applicants

Yep. For me, the Sloan AdCom has always stood out because Sloan seems to go by the beat of their own drum. They seem to care less about the stupid rankings game and average GMATs of incoming classes. And they're realistic about people's career goals changing once they get into school, hence they don't ask for them.

I think there's always been a misconception that Sloan only cares about your numbers because of their formulaic scoring approach to reading applications. For example, HBSGuru always says in his series on Poets and Quants that if you get a 760, you're a shoo-in because you'll score high in MIT's formula.

Yes, Sloan does use a formula, but they make room for intangibles for a reader to say "hey this person is interesting, let's invite him/her to interview." The reason I say this is because I was fortunate enough to have a waitlist feedback session this past summer with one of the AdCom members, and while she of course did not show me my application, she had my application directly in front of her on her laptop, and she read to me the comments that readers made. I was very surprised at how much the comments reflected the committee members' desire to get to know me.

At any rate, I am sure everyone's video, slideshow or whatever people submitted will be carefully read and evaluated.