Its true. I don’t want to interfere myself with her essay. My point is let her write her essay and peer reviewed by someone. Also the truth is my writing is bad and my mother tongue is not english and I belong to different generation.
She had already have some matching and safeties in her mind. All your advises are really helpful and just she need to implement them properly.
National level awards in dance are not “some awards” - don’t sell her short.
Dance is a time consuming EC, and she still manages a couple more. Just make sure that she emphasizes what goes into high level dance. Time in class, time in practice, shows (don’t forget the shows), the different types of dance, etc.
I do agree, though, that, for biological sciences, MIT is not the best choice, especially looking at her interests and ECs. Based on her profile, I would recommend a couple of liberal arts colleges, like Pomona or a couple of the NESCACs. In general, LACs may be good fits for her. I would also recommend Princeton over Harvard for biology, if she wants to have a couple of “lottery schools”.
Is she thinking of continuing to dance in college?
Yes, she wants to continue dancing in college. I agree that dancing is time consuming. It requires weeks and months of practise before any show. coming to academics, she is thinking of applying to couple of LAC such as Pomona, Swathmore and Williams. In that way, she can do minor in performing arts in addition to Biological Science as major. Thanks for your advise.
“Do you think MIT give more weightage to Math score than Reading/writing”
Yes. At least when I was there (a long time ago) the other students almost universally had SAT math scores that were significantly higher than their reading / English scores. It was very common to see students with 790 or 800 on the math part of the regular SAT, as well as on the math SAT subject test. I do not remember ever meeting anyone who had 800 on the English part of the SAT, and there were multiple students (including me) who had less than 700 on the English/reading part of the SAT.
I think that you daughter’s SAT score is very good.
Hi, I just stumbled up on this thread. Did your D make it into those schools? Which one did they end up going to?
@momofboiler1 - all the HYPS school’s are too tough to predict. Does your D have a chance? Sure, but I would put it in the less than 20%. That is not a negative comment about your D, just a comment about how crazy hard it is to get into the sub 10% acceptance rate schools.
My DS’s (twins) had similar or better stats (we are from NorCA) and got rejected from USC, rejected from Northwestern, rejected from UCLA, waitlisted then rejected from Harvard and Brown, waitlisted at Michigan. It’s a tough chore to make it into the more selective schools.
You can certainly make the argument that as a top flight student, she has better than a 5-10% chance to get into top schools. That’s still a steep climb. It’s hard to really understand it. You and your D are so used to succeeding, then suddenly you don’t. It was a tough pill to swallow.
The good news is she will get accepted to some good schools. Focus on fit.
You tagged the wrong user @usma87. My D is a college junior and thankfully we are long done with this process. Not sure who you meant to tag because the scrolling function wouldn’t take me back to the top of the page.
Oops, my bad
No worries. I think the reply button isn’t clear if you are responding to a specific poster or the thread as a whole!