Chance a weary prospective MIT applicant (:

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So i am currently a junior in a semi competitive highschool in northeastern US. Keep in mind that all the senior year grades are projections. </p>

<p>9th grade:
All As
Honors Geo A</p>

<p>10th Grade:
Honor Java A
Honor Alg 2 A
Honors Bio A
Honor History A
Honor English A
Spanish 2 A</p>

<p>11th Grade:
AP Stat A
AP Lang and Comp A
AP Bio A
Honor Chem A
Honor Pre calc/Trig A
Honor History A
Spanish 3 A</p>

<p>12th Grade:
Ap Lit A
AP Econ A
AP Calc BC A
AP Chem A
AP Physics C A
AP Comp Sci A
Spanish 4 A</p>

<p>Few classes at local college: Calc Ab, Linear Alg, Multivariable Calc</p>

<p>GPA - 3.9 UW ~4.4 W</p>

<p>Race/Gender: White, Male;</p>

<p>SAT: 2200; 750 M 710 CR 740 W; Subject Chem 800 Math 2 800;</p>

<p>Rank: top 3% of about 600 students;</p>

<p>Common Awards: Green chord Community service award x2, Technical Students Assossiation Regional/State awards (a bunch lol) ,Science Olympiad awards, AP Scholar with distinction. </p>

<p>EC:
- Varsity lacrosse 3 years
- TSA Treasurer
- Relay for life club treasurer
- Green Chord
- Science olympiad club
- community service at local YMCA (ran and organized science camps)
- community service at local hospital over summers
- about 150 - 200 hours total of community service
- tutor people on free time for SATs/biology/chemistry
- piano for a few years</p>

<p>I have a passion for legos (i know a bit immature), and i think this is what ill write one of the essays about on the application. I love to build sets, specifically star wars ones on my free time and collect the different models. I also use regular bricks for more recreational uses like building casings for technology (computers, cell phones, lamp shades (not as much "technology" lol). Basically whatever i see i find a way to make it more interesting with the application of legos (My personal favorite is how i built a puzzle of darth vader
with legos, complete with its box and all). </p>

<p>Please comment and let me know your opinions, i know for sure i can get great recommendations from my teachers since i have fairly personal relationaships with most of them. I also plan to get an interview for sure.</p>

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<p>So if you’re taking Calc BC next year, how can you take Linear Alg and MV Calc at a College if those courses involve Calculus…</p>

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<p>im taking Calc Ab summer after junior year and the others the summer after senior year.</p>

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<p>dude, you say your gpa is 3.9 but you’ve gotten all As.</p>

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<p>give or take 1 or 2 A-'s, thought it was somewhat negligible in the scope of things lol. You’re a picky person.</p>

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<p>common people all these views and no serious replies ! :(</p>

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<p>ECs are weak and GPA and SAT cant’ make up.</p>

<p>MIT is an incredibly difficult univ. to get into, and you don’t have a ton of ECs that set you apart. I’d put you at a mid reach.</p>

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<p>Low chances</p>

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<p>thankyou very much for the replies, any advice you can offer to help?</p>

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<p>I have a good friend who went to MIT. I think that you are at least as qualified as he was. Also, I think that as far as your ECs are concerned, they are competitive.</p>

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<p>thankyou! im going to have a few more local awards and such i just wish i could do research but its all so expensive :(</p>

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<p>Are you predicting grades before you’ve even started the school year in which you’ll be taking the classes? That’s getting a bit ahead of yourself.</p>

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<p>common really? lol please just take these projections as guarantees, don’t worry about my personal confliction of “getting ahead of myself” and just give me feedback. By picking apart the nuances of my post one by one your wasting your time along with mine. Why don’t you just tell me where I should put some more commas, or maybe correct my grammar and illustrate to me how to properly use hyphens for my contractions? … I can’t believe I stooped to your level and have now wasted even more of my own time (pats self on the back).</p>

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<p>sorry meant apostrophes in that last post, figured I’d correct myself quickly before comfortablecurt or tomatox1 swoop in like vultures</p>

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<p>forgot to mention that I will also be doing research at U of Penn over the summer if that may help</p>

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<p>Wow…Clarifying the content of the post to better offer advice constitutes “swooping in like vultures?” We were picking apart the nuances of your post one by one? You asked for advice…we asked for clarification on a couple of questionable points.</p>

<p>As far as MIT goes, I’d say it’s a reach. But, MIT is a reach for any applicant. They turn down applicants with perfect test scores and GPA’s all the time. Your EC’s lack a little bit in comparison to the competition. The 2200 SAT hurts too, especially combined with the somewhat lacking EC’s. Regarding the Lego thing…that could kind of go either way. It may come across as being creative and having good critical thinking skills, or it could go the other way. That would come down to how it was written though in the end.</p>

<p>And seriously, stooping to my level? I think you went above and beyond “my level.” Seriously…it was just a question. You say these grades are guarantees though…I highly recommend not getting complacent and overconfident. That sounds like a case of senioritis beginning to set in. From the looks of it you’re going to have a pretty rigorous senior year schedule, so don’t underestimate it. And before the butthurt sets in, this is ADVICE, not nitpicking.</p>

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<p>thank you very much for your post, critical yet constructive (;</p>

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<p>Try to raise your SAT score. You seem like a very unique individual and I wouldn’t limit yourself to just MIT. MIT likes to reject tons of perfect applicants and accept a bunch that are way less impressive than what you’ve put here, so I would try to find some other schools that are similar ( Caltech/CMU/Stanford/Duke). Your test scores for MIT are sitting kind of low and you have plenty of time to try and raise them. Good luck!</p>