<p>The world knows that those who go to MIT have the most passionate, driven minds that there are to offer.
I'm currently a sophomore in high school, and I've become sucked into GPA's, SAT Scores, and making myself unique for prestigious schools like MIT.
I have a 3.9 GPA, Asian, live in Wisconsin, and intend on taking a ton of AP courses (the consensus norm to get into MIT). However, I'm scared that I can't find one thing that I only want to focus on in science.
I studied a lot of chemistry last summer out of pure curiosity and ended up really enjoying it. I thought I'd end up being a chemistry engineer of some sort and then I discovered Neil Degrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan....now I'm sucked up into learning astrophysics and about the universe on my free time. My grandpa use to teach physics in his village so he's encouraging me towards this.
HOWEVER, winterbreak started and I began experimenting with Computer Science and Repair and now I've become addicted to this! I work a couple of hours after school every week in my Robotics team.</p>
<pre><code> My future STEM Ap loads include Physics, CS, Calc, Physics B&C, Chemistry, Stat, Econ.
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<p>I honestly don't know what to focus on. I feel like I could seriously love any of the aforementioned subjects. I really want to enter into some competitions to show that I really enjoy science to MIT admissions. I know that MIT students also love STEM in general, what should I do?</p>
<p>There’s no need for you to specialize yet. Just take a lot of math and science classes for now. You don’t have to declare a major for 3+ years and you will likely have a better idea of what you want to do then.</p>
<p>Way too soon to worry about what major or majors you will be doing. Admission to MIT is to the university and not to any department. (They ask but it is mostly just for information and you are definitely not held to it).</p>
<p>Keep doing what you are doing. It may be useful to get help from your teachers at school in pursuit of your interests. That way you will have some independant documentation as well as their guidance in your endevours .</p>
<p>MIT likes to see people who are curious and who take advantage of opportunities afforded them.</p>
<p>If you don’t have an unusual affinity for some activity, the best advice is to:</p>
<p>1) master your subject matter, taking the full slate of math and science AP’s if possible as well as some humanities APs
2) try different ECs for a couple of years
3) try to have significant involvement in one or two ECs such that you get a lot out of it. That is, don’t be a passive member of a club. This could mean like 1-2 years of involvement where you actually try to accomplish something. If this was robotics, then try to become a leading member of your group.</p>