Chances at MIT

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>SAT: 790M and 590V (crap i know)
This is w/o studying and im currently studying a crap load to prepare for the october 8th SAT w/ up your score, princeton, and 10 real SATs (shooting for 2250)</p>

<p>ACT: 31 composite
34 reading
34 math
29 science
25 writing</p>

<p>800 on SAT II math 2
710 SAT II chem
750 SAT II math1</p>

<p>195 on psat</p>

<p>From pakistan, attending a school with 80.5% hispanics</p>

<p>Most probably goign to be 1st or 2nd out of 1100+ people in class rank</p>

<p>3.6 unweighted, over 6.* weighted</p>

<p>Taken following APs in school:
Sophmore year: human geo (3), AP comp sci (5), ap calc ab (5)
Junior: Calc BC (5,5), english lang (3), ap comp sci ab (5), ap chem (4), ap history (2), phys C-M (3), phys C-EM (3)
Senior yr: stats, bio, lit, ap enviromental science, psych</p>

<p>Taken online:
ap art history, ap govt, ap macroeconomics, ap micro economics, H chemistry, H marine science</p>

<p>Taken at local colleges:
precalc, differential equations, multivariable(planning to), physics w/o calc.</p>

<p>Taken 7th pd/nightschool/summerschool
geometry, PE, health, art, 2 research classes</p>

<p>99.5 on AMC</p>

<p>Math and science award for 11th grade in school, placed 3rd in state for java for fbla, placed 4th in state for business math, (dont think this counts) team placed 1st at state for poster for mu alpha theta. Placed 2nd and 3rd at programming competitions.
Placed 1st and 3rd at regional fbla competitions</p>

<p>In Mu Alpha Theta for 4 yrs and have been to almost every single competitions (around 25-30) at the regional, invitational, state and national lvl. Historian for the club</p>

<p>In SECME for 3 yrs, was VP junior year, gone to every competition and stuff like build-it, shadow an engineer, etc</p>

<p>goign to be part of big brother, big sister (program were kids go to local middle school and tutor and whatnot)</p>

<p>In FBLA for 3 yrs, was parlimentarian junior yr</p>

<p>The usual laundry list of clubs: phi beta chi, chess, nhs, ehs, etc etc</p>

<p>Student government secretary now, the reason why im no longer officers of a bunch of clubs. I have to give up a period for the position and I usually stay up to 3 hrs after school every couple of days</p>

<p>Attended football games (dont know if this matters)</p>

<p>Part of the MIT inventeams thing, our project got through the first stage and we are filling out the paper work to get the grant and stuff</p>

<p>Active in a youth group, gone to tampa twice to compete in sports competition w/ my group</p>

<p>Going to be silver knight nominee for a project i did which involved creating an online curriculum for people who needed help/tutoring in fcat math</p>

<p>Helped teach an FCAT math class after school</p>

<p>various community service projects, nursings homes, drives of sorts, and the usual laundry list</p>

<p>working on a programming project (not for school, but for my self) that will be hosted on sourceforge which involves creating a database for a flashcard indexing thing</p>

<p>Very strong in java, alright in c++, mySQL, html, and php</p>

<p>know of 3 people who went to MIT from my school in the past 2 years whom i keep close contact with</p>

<p>Essay will be pretty good and recomendation will be awesome</p>

<p>visited mit in the summer</p>

<p>applied for mites, didnt get in</p>

<p>my AIM is iotasquared so IM me if you want to talk or have some feedback. Im usually on 24/7</p>

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<p>Your GPA and test scores are just too low for an accepted applicant. It's a reach, less than 25% chance of admission.</p>

<p>What other schools are you interested in?</p>

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<p>Haha, you do realize that, for a school with a 14% admission rate, a 25% chance of acceptance is significantly above average...?</p>

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<p>That's why I wrote "LESS THAN" 25%.</p>

<p>I just didn't want to come up with a concrete number.</p>

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<p>Well, the unweighted gpa is low because of the fact that i take around 10 classes at one time, so im sure all the extra classes covers that up</p>

<p>Also, im assuming my SAT score will increase, the 590V was doing it with no idea what to expect and now im actually studying for that crap</p>

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<p>Quality over quantity.</p>

<p>Even if your SAT increases, I don't think you have a reasonable chance.</p>

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<p>nope... not even a reach,,</p>

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<p>I don't think an MIT admit is very likely, but the one thing that stands out (and that makes it worth completing the application) is that your class rank is extremely high. I don't think you should apply early - your first quarter and midyear grades might help (if they are good, of course).</p>

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<p>wow,, your skool is reaaaaaalllly huuuuggeeee</p>

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<p>I'd apply, but don't freak out if you don't get in. They're all competitive nerds.</p>

<p>Who wants to go reply to my thread?</p>

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<p>"Haha, you do realize that, for a school with a 14% admission rate, a 25% chance of acceptance is significantly above average...?"
the message is very interesting. Do you think the logic is correct?</p>

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<p>Well, the problem is that the 14% overall admit rate isn't really applicable to everyone -- the rate changes for various subgroups (internationals, minorities, people who interviewed, people with perfect SAT scores...). The overall admit rate hides those trends in the data -- different people really do have widely different chances depending on their circumstances. :)</p>

<p>My guess would be that the average applicant -- white male, good SAT scores (2100-2250), several ECs, strong GPA -- would have "average" chances, but vary any of those factors and it becomes difficult to predict.</p>

<p>And MIT students are emphatically not "all competitive nerds".</p>

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<p>Gosh I just make a joke and somebody's disparaging me for it.</p>

<p>Being a competitive nerd can be a good thing in some ways, anybody knows that. There are a lot of CC people who are competitive nerds, but they're headed in the right direction.</p>

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<p>Nerdiness is in the eye of the beholder!</p>

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<p>Sorry Godfather, didn't mean to get touchy. Many people say that and aren't joking, and I'm a little sensitive about that particular epithet.</p>

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<p>hey again mollie,</p>

<p>so are you saying that if 8 identical white males with good SAT scores (2100-2250), several ECs, and strong GPAs applied, one would get in?</p>

<p>and, bringing the post back to the OP, the extracurriculars seem pretty sweet, but i agree, the scores are low. did the 3 people who got into MIT before you have similar grades?</p>

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<p>Well, even if you get a pass on your crappy SATI verbal (you are taking it again, right!) your sub par AP scores really stand out and raise questions about your judgement. Why did you take so many? That 3,3 in Physics C doesn't help--it's the most heavily curved AP out there. You're all over the place. No research projects? Ok, you're a bit of a Math wiz--who's not. ?</p>

<p>P.S. That PSAT is low too. Forget you ever took it, and leave it off your resume.</p>

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so are you saying that if 8 identical white males with good SAT scores (2100-2250), several ECs, and strong GPAs applied, one would get in?

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<p>At least in theory, this is right. In practice... not so sure. That is to say, I'm not sure the admission of any particular person tracks well with the overall statistics. I mean, it's not like the admissions guys make piles of 8 similar people, then throw darts to decide which of the 8 they pick -- there's a rhyme and reason to it, but far be it from me to say what precisely that is.</p>

<p>Sorry I can't be more helpful.</p>

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<p>Everyone i talk to, including the admissions officers at MIT and ppl who go there tell me that gpas and SATs dont mean everythign. As for me, would a 3.6 unweighted diminish the fact that i have to juggle 10 aps a semester instead of 6 to get top 1, and i have to research classes also. If i was just like any other person taking 3 aps and 3 honors, a 4.0 would be a walk in the park... O and btw the 3's in physics, i was teh only one to pass through self study. Even the person who went to MIT didnt pass. ::shrugs:: what do i know, my gpa isnt high enough</p>

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<p>I think when he said sat's don't mean everything they meant not everyone gets a 1600. Take it over, and replace it with a 700 on verb</p>