<p>I'm a rising junior, and am toying with the idea of applying to MIT. Can someone take a look and let me know if I'm in the ballpark thus far (or how to improve)? I'll give as much info as I can (it's long). Thanks.</p>
<p>Sex-Male
Ethnicity - Hispanic
Location - CT
Prospective Major - Biology (premed)
School Type: Public, best in area
GPA: 5.723/6 - school only does weighted (a 6 is impossible to get b/c certain required classes are not at honors/AP level, GPA is effectively out of about 5.8-5.85)
UW GPA: 3.87/4
Rank: top 5% </p>
<p>SAT: taking in Oct
PSAT - 222 as a sophomore, taking again as a junior
SATII - US History - 720, will take more probable Math2, Chem, Spanish
AP Scores - AP US History (5)</p>
<p>Classes: (Note: School has a partnership with the University of Connecticut, so in lieu of many AP courses we have UCONN courses that you get Uconn credit for. These are denoted with a *)</p>
<p>Freshman: (No AP allowed, all classes at highest level offered)
-Honors Biology
-Honors Geometry
-Honors Algebra 2
-Honors English 9
-Honors Spanish 2
-Honors Geography (half year)
-Pre-AP History of American Politics (half year)
-Health (req)
-PE (req)</p>
<p>Sophomore: (only 1 AP offered, had an exception made for Uconn physics,all classes at highest level offered)
-Guitar (req music)
-MS Office (req computer class)
-AP US History*
-Advanced Pre-Calc
-Honors English 10
-Honors Spanish 3
-Advanced Physics*/UCPHYS 1201Q&1202Q
-PE (req)</p>
<p>Junior: (all classes at highest level offered)
-AP Calculus BC*
-AP Statistics *
-AP Chemistry*
-Honors Spanish 4
-Honors English 11
-AD World Civilizations<em>/AP Economics</em>/AP Euro <- scheduling difficulties, so I'm taking one of these 3, just haven't figured out which fits in my schedule best
-possible AP Psych self-study</p>
<p>Note on classes and grades: I freshman year averaging 1-2 B+ a semester, the second semester of my sophomore year fixed that to a 4.0, so biggest upward trend possible.</p>
<p>ECs</p>
<p>-Crew - made varsity as a freshman, will be varsity all 4 years
- Model UN (9,10,11,12)
-Student Congress - elected representative
-Ski Club
-Hockey (only did as a freshman)
-Spanish Honor Society
-Mu Alpha Theta
-Volunteered at charity bike ride - 3 days overnight
-Starting volunteer work at local hospital this week
-Founded a small non-profit organization that sends money for books and supplies to a library that I helped build in rural Panama. I work closely with 3 people in the US and 2 in Panama. </p>
<p>Other: I speak Spanish fairly fluently, but not a native speaker.</p>