<p>Location: East coast
School: Competitive public high school (about 450 kids)
Race: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>GPA: 98.2 (unweighted); 101.6 (weighted); (on a 4.0 scale my unweighted is a 4.0 not sure about the weighted)
Rank: On track to being valedictorian (projected: 1/125)
Courses: Most rigorous curriculum including 7 AP courses (my school offers 15)</p>
<p>Junior year (place score in parenthesis):
AP Chemistry (5)
AP Calculus AB (5)
AP Statistics (3--haha meh)
AP English Language (5)</p>
<p>Senior year AP courses I plan on taking:
AP Biology
AP Calculus BC
AP English Literature </p>
<p>ACT: 34 C; 35 E; 36 M; 34 R; 31 S; 8 essay
SAT Subject Tests: Math 1 (700-- not sending to most schools); Math 2 (770--sending); Chem (720--sending) </p>
<p>Plenty of clubs with 4 or 5 leadership positions, but all of the clubs I participate in I am really passionate about. My biggest EC (most involvement and most passionate about) is Drama Club which I am Co-president of senior year and was treasurer of last year.
Have lifeguarded the last 3 summers as well and I am a volunteer (3 years now) at a local hospital.
What do ya guys think? Chances for MIT, Harvard, UPenn, Duke, and Hopkins BME would be appreciated (my reaches).
If any elaboration on my stats is needed I can provide it but I'd like to maintain my privacy as much as possible.</p>
<p>Thanks cortana, I do have a lot of math and science ECs so that should help reveal to MIT that I am passionate about engineering and math and science.
oh also, sorry for the confusion but i am a SENIOR not a junior.</p>
<p>I think you are on the good track, but I can tell you that MIT is a high reach for everyone. You really need something that will make you stand out among tons of applications.</p>
<p>Overall, your EC’s and profile are fairly decent, but lacks the “stand-out” factor which is what MIT wants. Usually a major award/title, especially in a math or science field, will gain you a significant advantage. They want to admit as diverse a class as they can.</p>
<p>Also, note that MIT does not give credit for AP Chemistry, Biology, Stats, or Calculus AB. If you’re accepted, you can take advanced standing exams (ASE) during orientation to try to obtain credit.</p>
<p>No, legacy usually only applies when a parent or uncle went to the college, not siblings.
Also, I would try to bump that science score in the ACT up. Kinda of awkward to have your lowest score be a 31 in science. In terms of hooks, you don’t have many but you don’t necessarily have to be hooked. Only so many science awards are given out per year!</p>
<p>the thing is MIT accepts “normal” people regularly, only around 30% of their freshman students are academic stars, you just have to be the right FIT, if you get an interview and creatively answer their short answer mini essays, you have a good chance. I know kids who have gotten in you would never imagine, no awards, research, or anything that would qualify to be superstardom… just regular kids with an above average aptitude for school. Curing things like cancer is definity not a requirement. Look at the thread on here titles “Does MIT accept normal applicants” a girl posted it with no spectacular acheivements or anything to “stand-out”, she was nervous and worrying like you an I, and it turned out she was accepted. Proof that MIT doesnt just accept super science/math nuts.</p>
<p>EHhhh its a high reach. Again your app is pretty average/below average. GPA is great but Subject tests are low and ACT is belowish average for them, but fine i think. AP Stat is a joke of an exam too so the 3 does not look good… It would be great if you could give a better description on ECs…</p>
<p>lol uncle? Perhaps a rich uncle who regularly donates a million each year to MIT and writes you a kool recommendation! lol, even then, I do not think uncles are legacies. Parents who donate a million each year, sure.</p>
<p>@ImSoAmbitious- The 3 probably stemmed from the fact that my teacher literally did nothing to help prepare us for the AP… not trying to make excuses but yeah.
As for the ECs, I am president/co-president of Math Honor Society, Drama Club, School Newspaper (co-editor in chief), Mock Trial and will probably be captain of the Varsity Ice Hockey team among other things. I hope to make it apparent to MIT that everything I do I do because I love them. I hope that my well-roundness will help me with admissions. I do not have any insane math or science accomplishments by any means but I am extremely passionate about both and I believe my letters of rec (well one of them) will reflect that.</p>