Any chance that I’ll get into MIT as a junior?
SAT: To be seen, 2110 in 7th grade
4.41 weighted GPA
USACO Camp (*2)
Built for profit API with 1.5 million+ uses
Web development internship over the summer
Qualified for AIME
FTC Superregionals (First Tech Challenge), this included some volunteer work as well
Top 10 in over 5 CTFs, 4th in one
Won many highschool programming competitions
Hackathon HM
Don’t be afraid to say that I can’t get in!! I’m fine with that.
You appear qualified, or at least as though you’re beginning to become so. Assuming 740ish+ on your SAT IIs (ideally 760-800, although anything in the 720+ range is considered acceptable to my knowledge) and about a 1500+ on your SAT I (or around a 33-34 on the ACT) I’d say you’re a candidate. 'Tis most unusual for juniors to apply to my knowledge, perhaps I’m wrong and someone could correct me and explain that this is commonplace, but it’s something I’ve only heard of happening rarely at places like BU and Bard College where people come in before graduating high school.
You’ll have to speak convincingly and maturely about why you are applying before graduating high school, and how you plan to take on the resources (all of which is best to be spoken implicitly through passionate essays, well written narrative through the application questions and ECs, and very importantly but down purely to luck, effusive letters of rec from the teachers and mentors that you’ve entrusted with the task of writing on your behalf).
Good luck to you! Do let us know how things pan out!
^^^Nice.
Yes, I know MIT, Caltech, CMU and others accept juniors. The down size is that you will be compared to others who have an extra year to develop maturity and ECs. Only consider this option if your HS doesn’t have the classes you need.
Others above have made the key points. It’s impossible to say other than somewhere higher than 0 and less than 100. In general, our heuristic is to ask whether, as bookworm implied, you are both ready for MIT and whether you need MIT to continue to grow at this point. Depending on your (entire) application I could see either outcome.
Yeah, the reason I’m applying is because I’ve exhausted all of the computer science courses at my school, and I’d like to start learning more at MIT.