Chances at MIT/Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm currently a junior in high school. </p>

<p>ACT: 33
GPA Weighted: 4.22(4.35 recalculated without freshman year)
AP's taken: AP Gov - 4
Ap's that will be taken: AP Calc BC, Multivarible Calculus/Elementary Linear Algebra, AP Chemistry, AP stats, AP Language, AP Physics, AP Computer science.</p>

<p>EC's
National Chinese Honor Society
Physics Club
Robotics team
Varsity soccer (2 years)/On a club team that competes nationally
JETS (Junior engineering Technical Society)
Tutoring (5 hours a week, tutor since start of junior year)
Occasional Volunteering (A little over 30 hours)
Program in C++, JAVA and Python in free time.</p>

<p>On a scale of 1 to 10(10 being 100% chance of being accepted) what are my chances?</p>

<p>Anything I need to improve?</p>

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<p>And approx. SAT score - 2200</p>

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<p>Your ECs scream grocery list with no significant achievement written on there…</p>

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<p>What were your individual scores on the SAT? Whats your rank? Competitive school? And like the poster above your ECs show nothing of MIT/Stanford value. There are people going to MIT that go to math competitions in Bulgaria, people that have spent a 3 year project rebuilding a restoring a car with their father, etc. The point I am trying to make is what makes YOU different than all the other people. Your SAT isn’t that good for MIT/Stanford because there are people getting 2300+ and still getting rejected because their GPAs and ECs aren’t good enough.</p>

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<p>Ah, I see, at least now I know where I stand. Thanks for the feedback.</p>

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<p>no no no…don’t assume you won’t get in to either of those schools…keep plugging ahead and try to get in touch early with adm. department…let them know how well rounded you are and yes, perhaps select one of your favorite EC’s and expand upon that…ie…president of robotics team, involvement with JETS etc…best of luck!</p>

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<p>GPA is lowish for MIT. I mean… its MIT. Isnt the average accepted like a 4.45? and just an fyi, MVC is NOT an AP class ; )</p>

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<p>What’s your UW GPA?</p>

<p>You’re not a lost cause for these 2 schools, but it’ll be a reach.</p>

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<p>U wont get in unless ur recs + essays are amazing, cuz the rest of ur app is average AT BEST, nothing amazing</p>

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<p>Yeah my post wasn’t meant to deter you at all, you definitely have a chance, a small one but a chance nonetheless. Listen your a second semester junior, you still have a semester left to raise your GPA more which in this case will help. You have a semester to expand on your ECs, really do though, try and reach out.</p>