Chances for MIT EA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What do you guys think? </p>

<p>Asian, low-income, California
Questbridge Finalist, College Prep Scholar</p>

<p>Rank 1, 4.0 GPA, 2290, 35, SAT II: 800, 750, 720 (retake), 700 (retake)
The Summer Science Program '09
COSMOS summer program '07
Siemens Science Competition Semi-Finalist
published research
research: 1) theoretical math 2) particle physics (currently doing)</p>

<p>National AP Scholar
National Merit Semi-Finalist
Harvard Book Award
Congressional Volunteer Award
AMC 12 School Winner, AIME qualifier
JETS team 1st place, National Finalist
Robotics 2nd place</p>

<p>Varsity cross-country, track, Student government (2 years), Hospital volunteering (400 hours) Leadership Board, Math Club Pres. (4 years), Science Club, Robotics team captain, JETS captain.</p>

<p>Solid essays. Solid recs. Solid interview. (good but not "perfect")</p>

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<p>omg another MIT EA, XD</p>

<p>I think you rock! :slight_smile:
GL this week getting stuff done (I am EA MIT too)</p>

<p>Look at me?<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/784324-c.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/784324-c.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I do have a question about your class rank vs. GPA- the 4.0 seems low if you are the top of your class. Even an unweighted GPA should be higher than that, assuming that you are taking AP, Honors and possibly, Dual Credit college-level courses in high school. Also,what courses did you take as a junior and now as a senior? While being Asian might have helped some years ago, it no longer adds much to the “diversity” of MIT, but being a Questbridge finalist may help garner some extra attention- make that work for you. It’s still a crap shoot because these schools seem to select students for reasons that are a mystery to the rest of us. One young lady who graduated with my D this past year had a higher GPA and was a National Merit Scholar applied to MIT- 5 years ago, she would have been given an engraved invitation, this year she was turned down. Another young man we’ve known for years was turned down from MIT, and from all of the Ivies (he applied to ALL of them) EXCEPT one… he’s enjoying Princeton very much now!</p>

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<p>You should have no problem. Did you send your paper to MIT?</p>

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<p>Mezzo: My UW is 4.0, Weighted is 4.4 (but I’m sure this is diff. for each high school).
Junior year classes: 3 college classes (physics, calc 3, linear algebra), AP English Comp, APUSH, AP Bio, AP Spanish</p>

<p>Senior year: 2 college classes (bio, diffeq), AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Chem</p>

<p>teskata: I want to…but how do I do it? Just mail it to them?</p>

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<p>solid candidate. good chances</p>

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<p>Seems very possible because of good scores, EC’S , etc. Only bad thing is that your asian with good scoresm EC’S, etc.
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