<p>Mitch it was much easier to get into schools like caltech in your best friend’s father’s time.</p>
<p>I kind of agree with them in everything they are saying. I do believe you should increase your SAT score if you can, plus you need a couple of 800s in the SAT Subjects so that you show you can study there.</p>
<p>However, don’t get discouraged! I feel that people over here are very critical and while they are spot on, sometimes they demoralise a bit.
So this post is more or less to remind you that yeah, it is a high reach but hey, great essays can get you in anyway! So focus on them, try to come up with great topics and maybe you’ll get in (I say maybe because noone has a guaranteed spot here xD)</p>
<p>And if you are rejected, there are other awesome schools</p>
<p>Ow Cortana is painfully direct, but correct. I know a guy that got a perfect ACT, preformed at carnegie hall, went to state in USAMO, took calculus BC as a freshmen and was a siemens semifinalist and still got rejected.</p>
<p>Acceptance rates are getting lower, students have to go the extra mile, its getting way more competitive. Apply ed to cornell</p>
<p>@kill16 No, great essays can’t ‘get you in anyway.’ And it is more important to give a prospective applicant their realistic chances so they don’t waste their time and have false hopes.</p>
<p>Schools will have to do something about this, they are rejecting amazing students every year, it just seems stupid</p>
<p>I hope they spend some money on housing to accept more applicants</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem stupid at all. They don’t have enough spots to accept every qualified applicant that comes their way.</p>
<p>@cortana431 yes, I agree, that’s why I focused the first part of my post on that.</p>
<p>But people have gotten in and sometimes it’s not clear why. Adcoms are sometimes random and not applying would be a mistake, hence my little hope</p>
<p>well whatever im gonna try anyways, theres no harm in that right? if i get accepted, awesome (but from the looks of it thats a no), and if i dont hopefully i will in cornell, carnegie, or johns hopkins.</p>
<p>Oh yeah one more thing, my one friend was on the football team and to be blunt he stunk:( But the cool thing is he got calls from yale and other ivy leagues telling him to come play for them but in reality they just want him to improve their GPA, in the end he took yales offer and basically just sits the bench… I also had another friend do this for the princeton track team, is track skills werent close to the others but he was used to bring the teams overall GPA up… any chance i would be able to do that on MITs team? theyre a Division 3 lacrosse school and really arent that great…</p>
<p>Don’t limit yourself. Do something special this summer that will make you stand out. You have plenty to be proud of.</p>
<p>maybe ill build a robot made of leggos or something, who knows;/</p>
<p>Yeah I basically agree with the others. You have good grades, but course rigor is not up to par. Most of these kids have taken AP Calc… by sophomore year. ECs are also weak. 100 volunteer hours? Its great that you are helping out your community, but do not think this is very prestigious in regards to college admissions. It is pretty common to see applicants with 200-300 volunteer hours. 100 volunteer hours would be considered below average. It is still a great achievement, though, you should feel proud! Improve your scores to 2250+. Your current SAT is not competitve for any top schools, but your PSAT looks promising. I don’t think you have top notch ECs. Science Olympiad is good, but only if you won anything. The self-started community service project is great. However, everything else probably isn’t even worth mentioning. If you can get recruited for lacrosse, your chance is much much much higher :). Call up the coaches at the schools you are considering. You play at elite clubs, so you should know the quality of players getting recruited and where they are going. Otherwise sports don’t carry much weight.</p>
<p>YOU CAN’T SPELL. THEREFORE YOU CANNOT GO TO MIT. </p>
<p>Sorry. Typos/misspellings/grammar errors reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally bother me, especially in chance me posts for top schools.</p>