Chances for MIT?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Hi, I am a current junior and wanted to know my chances for MIT? (Korean-American male)</p>

<p>All GPA's listed are weighted</p>

<p>GPA Freshman Year: 4.00</p>

<p>GPA Sophomore Year: 4.33</p>

<p>GPA Junior (as of now): 4.67</p>

<p>SAT: 800 Math, 800 CR, 780 WR
Total: 2380 (single sitting)</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry (800), Math IIc (800), Biology (660) <- epic fail
About Biology: I'm not good at memorizing things. I consider myself more of a problem solver.</p>

<p>Rank:: 1st quintile (school ranks as such: 1'st Quintile is the highest GPA's, 4th has the lowest)</p>

<p>AP Classes (taking currently): AP Statistics, AP computer science, AP US History, AP Biology</p>

<p>AP Classes to be taken senior year: AP Calculus BC, AP World History, AP English</p>

<p>I plan on applying Early Action.</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
President and Founder of School's computer science club
a) won top 3 at programming competition at local university
Mathematics Team Co-Captain
Academic Decathlon
Environmental Club
Political Club
NJ Chemistry Olympics - ranked top 3
Volunteer EMT</p>

<p>Research Experience:
NYU-Poly - did computer science/applied mathematics research on various encryption algorithms (md5, etc.) and worked on developing modes of encryption</p>

<p>Summer Program:
Columbia University High School Summer Program</p>

<p>Computer Experience:
Contribute to open-source projects
President of Local Town Linux Users Group
Programming languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Intel Assembly
Working knowledge of unix based systems: BSD, linux, etc.</p>

<p>I have a passion for mathematics and computer science which I hope will come out in my application. My recommendations should be great. One of them is from my professor who taught me both computer science and mathematics who likes me a lot. The other is from my Honors Pre-Calc teacher who went to M.I.T. for both undergraduate school and graduate school and is known for writing great recommendations.</p>

<p>Going to participate in USACO so we shall see how that goes..</p>

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<p>The greatest chance that everyone has before the Pi Day, I believe, is always below 10%, which is the admitted rate of MIT annually. However you should be confident in your intellectual ability and your EC (if it were not MIT but another prestigious school, I would have said “you have a great shot!!!”), no need to take SAT again :smiley: Just make sure that your application will be great and reveal well your true self :slight_smile:
Btw, I’m int’l so I’m not familiar with the AP courses in the US. You know, MIT highly appreciates those who dare to study the hardest courses regardless of grades. So does anyone have any advice on this for him?</p>

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<p>Don’t sweat the biology SAT II, they won’t consider it. They’ll take your 800 in chemistry instead. I would have said about 10%, but then I read the research thing you did. I still say about 10%, unless you can really comunicate your passion in this field (you could use the research and summer program for this).</p>

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<p>Which are your Free Software projects? Which GNU/Linux distribution do you use?
I have the bases of C programming but I didn’t study it in deep because school and sport.</p>

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<p>@edoardo</p>

<p>I posted this thread under my brother’s account by accident, this is my account
<— phrenze</p>

<p>Anyways, to answer your question…</p>

<p>When software companies come out with beta versions of stuff and want users to test them, I help with that as well as with analyzing some source code for potential sources of error.</p>

<p>I use crunchbang linux, which is a variation of Ubuntu with an OpenBox desktop environment. It is way more lightweight than Ubuntu (which as we all know, users the Gnome DE) and feels more responsive. </p>

<p>C is a great language to learn</p>

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<p>Great to see you’re into open source! Tell us more about your projects! I’m interested.</p>

<p>I’ve been using Linux too for a while (delving into the kernel source recently), and right now I use Arch Linux. I’ve worked on a few software projects, mostly games (math+physics+cs fun) and similar things, in my free time. If you have the time, do check out [my</a> website](<a href=“http://nikki93.github.com/]my”>http://nikki93.github.com/)!</p>