Chances for MIT

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Incoming Senior
Hispanic, Male.
Income: Under 60,000 bracket
Parents: Neither parent went to college
Location: Brooklyn, New York
School: Stuyvesant High School
SAT: 2220 (680 CR, 800 M, 740 W(12 essay)) – Plan on retaking it once in October.
Intended Major: Physics </p>

<p>Other Standardized Tests:
APs:
5 Physics B (Freshman Year)
5 Chemistry (Sophomore Year)
5 World History (Sophomore Year)
5 U.S. History
5 Calculus BC
5 Physics C: Mechanics
5 Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism</p>

<p>SATIIs:
800 Physics
800 Math II
800 U.S. History </p>

<p>GPA: 4.0
Estimated Rank: Between 5th and 10th out of over 800 (most likely top 2%)</p>

<p>Classes/Grades (In parentheses I have the first semester grade and then the second semester. My school does numerical grades so I’ll use those)
Freshman Year
Global History 1,2 (98/100)
Geometry 1,2 (96/98)
Spanish 1,2 (97/99)
Physics 1,2 (100/99)
Freshman Composition (96/98)
Math Research (98)
Music History/Art History (97/93)</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
Honors Chemistry (100/100, took the AP without the class)
Honors Trig (98/100)
Computer Science (99)
AP World History (95/95)
Spanish 3,4 (97,93)
European Literature (96, 98)</p>

<p>Junior Year
AP U.S. History (98/99)
AP Calculus B.C. (99/99)
Honors Precalculus (99/99) [took precalc and calc bc concurrently]
AP Physics C Mechanics (99)
AP Physics C EM (95)
Early American Literature (97)
Creative Non-Fiction (it’s a personal essay writing class, 96)
Spanish 5,6 (95/99)
Intel Research (99)</p>

<p>Classes I’m Taking Next Year:
Multivariable Calculus / Differential Equations
Physical Chemistry
AP Computer Science
Intel Research
Digital Photography
AP U.S. Government / AP Comparative Government
AP Macroeconomics / AP Microeconomics</p>

<p>EC's (it’s a bit of a shallow pool but science Olympiad is important to me and it will probably be the topic of an essay, My research is also very important to me, along with math survey. I may talk about (in my essays) how I didn’t really immerse myself in the school and its opportunities and doing Extracurrics until late in my school career and what I got out of it.):</p>

<ul>
<li>Science Olympiad Physics Division (Joined in Sophomore year, got on the best of the three teams. I was captain of the division during my Junior year and I’ll be captain once again Senior Year. 10th-12th). We’ve made it to states both years that I’ve been in.</li>
<li> Research (working at a lab at City College of New York all summer dping chemical synthesis. I'm also working on theoretical physics research on optics. I'm going to do this until the end of next year)</li>
<li>Math Survey (it’s the schools math magazine/publication. I wrote a tutorial style article on Optimization this year and next year I’m going to write another article 11th grade and 12th grade)</li>
<li>Columbia Science Honors Program (It’s a Saturday morning program at Columbia university where you take a science class at the school. I’ve taken Quantum Mechanics and Nanotechnology so far. It’s not for credit though, it’s just if you want to learn something about the topics that they offer). I started this year and I’m doing it next year (entrance was based on an exam)</li>
</ul>

<p>Unexplored/other stuff that I did extracurricularly:</p>

<ul>
<li>Math Team (only one year because of scheduling complications and I chose Physics instead, 10th grade)</li>
<li>Long Form Improv Club (9th and beginning of 10th but that’s because of conflicts with Science Olympiad and I had a feeling SciOly would have been the better choice)</li>
</ul>

<p>Jobs:
- Summer 2009: Clerical work at a dermatologists office
- Summer 2010: Trignonometry Tutor
- Spring/Summer 2011: I’m once again a math tutor, for a different student however.</p>

<p>Awards:
- New York Greater Metropolitan Math Fair – Gold Medal
- New York Regional Science Olympiad – 1st Place (out of 50), 6th place this year due to difficulties with another division. New York State Science Olympiad 10th Place (out of 55).
Event awards: Wind Power 3rd Place, Wind Power 4th place, Optics (statewide event) 5th place</p>

<p>In addition to tutoring and research this summer, I’m also spending a week at MIT for E2@MIT, where I’ll be working on an engineering project in some field with other members of the camp.</p>

<p>College List:
1. MIT
2. Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>Rest aren't in any specific order:
Columbia
Caltech
UC Berkeley
Princeton
maybe Harvard
UChicago</p>

<p>Cornell
UTAustin
CUNY Macaulay Honors College</p>

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<p>Hispanic=in everywhere.</p>

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<p>I mean its hard to predict your chances at a school like MIT, but you definitley will be a good canidate.</p>

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<p>Very solid chances.</p>

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<p>I think all of those schools would be lucky to have you.</p>

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<p>I’m going to second dblazer here, you’re in everywhere.</p>

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<p>You seem to be a very good candidate for MIT, but even MIT rejects some of the most excellent applicants, so there’s always that possibility. Being Hispanic definitely boosts your chances. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>Being hispanic AND having scores of that calibre gives you excellent chances, but of course there’s always quite a bit of sheer luck involved.</p>

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<p>You are in the best possible situation. Just keep up what you’re doing, and it’s a crapshoot at some of those places. You’re bound to get in to a good amount of them.</p>

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<p>Congrats, you will get accepted to MIT.</p>

<p>You remind me of my brother. I am Hispanic/Asian and our parents never even finished high school. My brother is very gifted and has exceptionally high inductive reasoning and spacial acuity talent. He eventually got a Ph.D from Berkeley in the 90’s and is now in the process of co-founding a biotech company that’s based a lot on his research on a treatment for a serious childhood disease.</p>

<p>My parents are extremely proud of him. As I’m sure your parents are of you…</p>

<p>Good luck, but I think you won’t need it. I suspect you’re very driven, considering your background.</p>