Chances for rising senior at MIT

<p>hey guys im a hispanic junior and im trying to see if i have the stats that could possibly lead up to an acceptance to MIT...just evaulate thanks.</p>

<p>school is ranked 115 among all public schools in nation...wealthy suburb</p>

<p>EDIT: i have a serious upward trend in my high school transcript (low grades(B) to all A's , minimal honors --> all honors/AP)</p>

<p>Stats:
PSAT: 225
SAT IIs: ive only taken math 2- 770...gonna take chem and us history at the end of the school year- Practices give range between 770-800 on each.
GPA: 3.7-8 uw{is what it was...dunno now...probably around the same though}
Rank: don't rank(not even decile)... extremely competitive school in long island,ny</p>

<p>Currently taking 2 AP's/3 honors(most my schedule will allow and will take 5/6 AP's or so next year (calc, macro/micro,physics, english,government)</p>

<p>All honors/AP classes 11th and 12th , made honor roll all of 10th,11th</p>

<p>Going to be taking the AMC12 in january or so...im really not sure how im gonna do because i dont really know about the AMC but my school invited me to take the test ...so im expecting to do okay</p>

<p>ECS:*President of Astronomy Club( conducted astronomy night at my school, conduct observing sessions every other week)
*Captain of club soccer team(cant play varsity because of religious obligations)(3 years)[Outdoor/indoor soccer for 3 years])-hoping to explain this obligation in my app.
*Drill Seargent of Church Youth Group(3 years)
*Master Guide of Seventh Day Adventist "Pathfinders" organization, kind of like a huge youth organization for my denomination.Master guide is the highest rank you can achieve. [pretty much a religious eagle scout type thing]
*Currently working as administrative assistant/research assistant at New Age Skin Research Foundation[will be mentioned as co-researcher in study that will be published in top dermatological journal]
*4 year dedicated member of mathletes
*3 year dedicated member of Model Congress(competed 2 years Yale,1 year Harvard, 1 year UPenn)</p>

<p>*~300 hours volunteering at LIJ Medical Center
*NHS-regular and french.
*2 years Website club</p>

<p>Summer Programs
*Attended Johns Hopkins CTY[discreet math] 9th grade
*Attended Cornell University Summer College[bioethics-contemporary medicine] 10th grade
*Going to attend One of-(Caltech SSP/MIT MITES/Caltech YESS/Garcia Research program-Polymers in biology) 11th-12th grade summer</p>

<p>Awards(as of now)
*Ventures Scholar
*National Hispanic Scholar
*NMSF/Commended</p>

<p>Other Factors:dad from Egypt, Mom from Peru. im gonna say extremely humble beginnings but im not exactly sure if thats a factor in admissions.
Hook (if any): Hispanic i guess.? some research stuff as well
Location/Person:LI,NY
State or Country: USA
School Type: extremely competitive public...last year about the top 10-12% of about 400-500 kids in the graduating class went to ivy league and a couple of other went to places like Stanford, MIT,etc.
Ethnicity: Hispanic/Arabic
Gender: m</p>

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<p>Hope that helped
Good luck on your Apps! :)</p>

<p>Numbers at MIT don't get you in - they get you consideration. They look for passion and other stuff that is undefinable. You're definitely up there, so just write the best and most passionate essays you can, and see what happens.</p>

<p>lol hriundeli</p>

<p>lol, is it just me or does the second to last link in hriundeli's post link back to THIS chances thread?</p>

<p>Sorry
yeah, it does - I didn't notice :)
By the time I was writing, this dude created another "Chances" thread lol</p>

<p>wow dude is it worth your time to go through all that or couldnt you just have given me chances...wow.</p>

<p>Sorry, beefs - I had no intentions of offending you :)
It just seemed funny to me that 90% of your threads deal with "Chance me, please"
Sorry again. </p>

<p>Your stats are fine - you will most likely pass the numbers cut-off. Just don't come out as a jerk in your essays, and ya'll be fine (no guarantees, however)</p>

<p>...</p>

<p>I'm just curious...what do you expect to hear?</p>

<p>...</p>

<p>Cheers :)</p>

<p>lol nah nothing ...actually i just found it funny that you would take the time to do all that...and yea most of them are chances..lol ehh im just tryin to get a univeral feel...no offense taken...anyway im just tryin to hear what i should be hearing you know?</p>

<p>"chance me because i <3 you"???
LOL</p>

<p>What I often hear is that MIT et al. are trying to see if you've taken advantage of the opportunities available to you. Therefore, taking a class at Cornell doesn't necessarily mean more (to adcoms) than taking a class at a community college - it all depends on what resources are available to you & what you've done with them. One of MIT's admissions officers (Ben Jones, I think) put it something like this (paraphrase): Even if person A has $24,000 and person B has $25,000, person A is still more impressive once you know that A started with $1,000 whereas B started with $21,000.</p>

<p>oh yea i definetley undestand that...its just that i come from a family that is able to pay for cornell summer college and cusc was also an interest for me because at the moment cornell is my top school mainly because im instate...good school...and w.e...</p>

<p>bump =) char</p>