<p>All feedback appreciated!</p>
<p>GPA: 4.25, 4UW</p>
<p>Rank 1/250</p>
<p>SAT: M800, CR790, W800- </p>
<p>SATIIs: M1:800, M2:800, Chemistry: 780, Physics: 770</p>
<p>12 APs 10 5s and 2 4s</p>
<p>Valedictorian </p>
<p>Soccer all four years, team captain this year</p>
<p>Student body president</p>
<p>Sparrow Club Member</p>
<p>Pianist-(I've won awards)</p>
<p>Counselor told me I would probably get in.
Agree?</p>
<p>… what do you mean by MIT honors?</p>
<p>Your stats certainly indicate capability - which applies to something like 80% of applicants.</p>
<p>MIT’s a long shot for anyone. You’re certainly in the running, but I think your counselor might not understand MIT admissions if she’s saying you’d probably get it.</p>
<p>i wouldn’t be so confident, for several reasons</p>
<p>lots of people are deferred or rejected with similar or better stats. i was deferred with similar academic stats, but they mean nothing if you don’t have interesting extracurriculars. i’m sure tons of MIT students played sports 4 years, were student body president, and have won musical awards. if you don’t seem genuinely interested in something, i don’t know that ECs are going to do anything for you. MIT-caliber ECs are like competing in national science fairs, that kind of stuff. not that you HAVE to do that, but compared to that kind of thing “student body president” doesn’t look all that great. and please don’t take this the wrong way. </p>
<p>summary: your academic stats are good, but unfortunately they don’t guarantee admission unless you have great ECs. which you didn’t really focus on in your post.</p>
<p>but then again, i don’t know any more than you do. this has just been my experience.</p>
<p>also, MIT honors?</p>
<p>^ ECs don’t have to be national competitions, but showing something beyond laundry-listing is important. You haven’t explained anything about your story, the teachers that know you, the types of essays you might write, etc. Remember that MIT Admissions is holistic. They’re interested in you the person, not a bunch of stats.</p>
<p>hmm… those stats would probably fit best at stanford columbia or princeton. perfect numbers are not mit’s focus. like those above me said, you would have a better chance if you had an engineering/science championship gold medal or a book published. doesnt matter where you go though; with those stats, you cant go wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong>: you lied about your grades and scores. nice.</p>
<p>jakey54:</p>
<p>Chance Me Please! UM is Top choice! </p>
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<p>I’d love to go to UM and I’d like to know what kind of chances people think I have.</p>
<p>Applying: Regular</p>
<p>From: Oregon</p>
<p>HS total GPA: 3.66
Freshmen: 3.53
Soph: 3.53
Jr: 3.86
Senior First term: 3.8</p>
<p>Graduating with honors diploma.
class rank: in like the top 27th percentile. </p>
<p>Taken 4.5 years of english including AP english
Taken 4 years of math up to algebra 2
Taken 4 years of spanish
Taken 5 years of science including chemistry and physics
Taken 3 years of history/social studies including AP US History
For the most part I have taken academic electives</p>
<p>SAT:</p>
<p>Reading: 620
Math: 610
Writing 710
R and M-1230, including writing-1940</p>
<p>Awaiting SATII but expecting like 600 on Math 1 test</p>
<p>ECs
Sparrow Club
Key Club: Membership committee chairmen
New Student Ambassador
Soccer: First team all league senior year; league player of the year senior year.</p>
<p>Good letters.</p>
<p>What are my chances? Good, fair, poor? What do you think?? </p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>Just to clarify, MIT does not have an honors program, does not have valedictorians at graduation, gives only need-based scholarships (not academic nor athletic) and gives very little credit for legacies. These factors are all part of it’s unique character and environment. If you can gain admission on the merits, it’s fairly egalitarian after that. I’m sure someone from Admissions can correct me if my perceptions are inaccurate.</p>
<p>I did not lie about my stats. More than one person uses this account and they were posting their stats in that post.</p>