Gee, Will...

[pat]

You know, you really need to get your stories straight. It might be nice if you weren't posting on your website that you turned down a scholarship to MIT after you told Wired that you didn't even apply to the place (although you said they were recruiting you).

MIT is always on the lookout for qualified minority candidates, but they don't actually offer scholarships to people who don't apply. Recruiting =! scholarship, necessarily.

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[princeofwands.livejournal.com]

I don't even know who the subject of this post is, nor do I have any experience with MIT's admissions/recruiting/scholarship process, but I do know that my brother in his recent admissions process was offered well in advance of applying a full ride to all of his top-five choices, including Stanford (whose offer was explicitly conditional on his getting through admissions).

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Your brother is a world class athlete. Will Smith was not.

Also, MIT does not offer athletic scholarships -- nor do they offer academmic scholarships that I know of. They offer aid-blind admissions -- or did, during the time that Smith would have been being considered -- meaning that students were recruited with a promise of financial aid. Different from a full ride such as your brother would have gotten.

Has he decided where to go? (Your brother, that is, not Will Smith.)