Common App Application: Fill & Download for Free

I was at a forum with Dean of Admissions Stuart Schmill when he was asked this question. His answer was that MIT looked carefully at the possibility of using the common app with an MIT supplement. They started by listing what they would want to ask on the MIT supplement, realised that it was very, very close to the MIT application at present, and concluded that there was no benefit to using the common app.What was not stated, but I am sure was part of it, was Yang Yang’s excellent point that MIT has no interest in increasing applications from those who do not match well for MIT. The school is fairly self-selecting. We get fewer “what the heck” applications than say Harvard does, and we want to keep it that way.For example, MIT stopped going to college fairs. The theory was that the students who matched well for MIT could probably find MIT on the web, and the students who could not find MIT on the web probably did not match well for MIT. The school found that college fairs largely (though not exclusively) increased applications from those who did not match well, and that was a waste of the applicants’ time and the admissions officers’ time. As a result, it is extremely rare to find MIT represented at any college fair.

Several things irritate me about this story, mostly about what is not said:To apply to Stanford you have to write eleven (yes, eleven) additional essays plus the general Common App essay. One of those 11 has the prompt is write 100 words on a cause which is meaningful to you (which he did, in a highly unconventional way).Most commentary I have read seems to assume this was the only essay that he submitted - he of course submitted ten others, plus the Common App essay. But for some reason nobody is curious about what he wrote in his other eleven pieces of submitted written work. It is the very definition of taking a tiny part of an application and judging the whole application on the basis of that tiny part.Mr Ahmed was also admitted to Yale and Princeton (for whom he didn’t write about the BLM movement). So by all accounts, most elite universities seem to agree he was an outstanding student regardless, whom they would have liked to see enroll.Mr Ahmed was an otherwise a generally outstanding candidate. Top grades. Long history of community service and other extra curriculars. In 2015, he was named among MTV’s Top 9 Teens Changing the World, and in 2016, he was named one of Business Insider’s Top 15 “young prodigies”. Very, very few of the press reports take the time to make this clear.I dislike the misleading slant the media has taken pretending that writing BLM 100 times was what got him in to Stanford. That is almost certainly false, but it is an appealing narrative for journalists because (a) it will provoke an emotional response from some people (most people?) - key giveaway: why mention that he is a Muslim unless you are trying to trigger a response? Religion has nothing to do with either university applications or BLM. And (b) it feeds into idea that there is a “hack” that if you think of a clever trick like writing BLM 100 times (and nothing more) then you too could have gotten into Stanford.This Muslim teen wrote '#BlackLivesMatter' 100 times as an answer on his Stanford application — and he got in

Thanks for A2A.For common people, it’s probably Android. But most interesting mobile OS in my opinion is Blackberry 10.Why?It’s based on QNX, real-time Unix-like operating system which means it has real-time microkernel in comparison to Android which has monolithic kernel (modified Linux).It can run Android applications compiled for API levels 10–18 and some Adobe AIR apps.Applications are minimized into the “Active Frame” which allows running in the background and showing some informations from the app.It’s sad that Blackberry chose to give up on it.