<p>thanks....</p>
<p>Ultra high scores are common in the MIT applicant pool. They will not, by themselves, get you into MIT.</p>
<p>Do you do anything outside of school with a particular passion and excellence? Do you do everything with great intensity? Or are you really a "slacker" as you said above, perhaps in jest?</p>
<p>The answers to these questions will be important in assessing your chances at MIT.</p>
<p>I love computer programming, I actually spend at least two hours a day just writing programs for fun.... Im serious... Im a nerd, I know :)
I love math, went to some tournaments, got some places
I am a numismatist (coin collecting)
and I have a really weird life story</p>
<p>Now you are talking. If you do something like that intensely for hours for the sheer love and joy of it, then you have the right idea. Would you be able to explain what you are up to, and your paasion for it, to others and/or in writing?</p>
<p>well... that is my problem.
Im a terrible essay writer. Can put my ideas together coherently. Gonna take a long time perfecting my essays</p>
<p>Well, could you explain what you are doing to an intelligent nonnerd?</p>
<p>yeah, i think so</p>
<p>Well, then, here is a suggestion. </p>
<p>Find intelligent nonnerd(s) who are willing to help. Tell them what you are doing in programming and/or math (not schoolwork, outside stuff that you do for fun) in nontechnical language, why it interests you, how you feel about it. See what they understand, what bothers them, what interests them.</p>
<p>But maybe you don't plan to write about these things. Then do the same thing about whatever you ARE going to write about. Whatever it is, write about something that you have an intensity, a passion for. </p>
<p>Use what you learn from these discussions to help write your essays. A well-written nontechnical essay is really just a modified conversation with an intelligent nonspecialist. </p>
<p>I believe that you CAN write some good essays!</p>