chances? please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Grade: Junior, very competitive public high school
Ethnicity: Half-Colombian Male, first gen, dad went to hs there only, mom a bit of college
GPA: 105.5 (last years valedictorian was a 102.1, though grade inflation is taking place)
Rank: 1/512
SAT I: 790 M, 690 CR, 630 W
SAT II: 800 Math 2C, took physics (prob 800), spanish (mid 700s at least), lit (dont really know) in june
AP: Comp Sci 3, Euro 5, BC Calc(almost definately a 5), Music (definately a 5)
IB: full IB diploma candidate; Math SL (only one our school offers, def a 7), Spanish SL (5-7 range)</p>

<p>*note, I transferred schools from 9th to 10th</p>

<p>Schedule: very rigorous, but i wasnt able to take aps in 9th, the school didnt have them. note, took BC Calc in 11th, Full IB Schedule this year and next otherwise, with other aps, final count of 6 aps and 6 ibs (some are 2 year courses), never below a 93 in a class</p>

<p>Activities:
Mathletes (high scorer in county every year) (9-11)
Academic Team (9-11), Knowledge Masters 1st in division in 9th, made it to round 3 of LI Challenge in 11th
Science Olympiads (10-11)
Piano, been playing since age 4, did about 50 volunteer hours of accompaniments this year
Students for 60000, volunteer organization, 11th
National honor society, music hs, spanish hs, all 11th
Class pres in 9th
Research during summer in 10th (100+ hours on Lorenz Attractor)
Research with mentor from NSA on Collatz conjecture in 11th (100+ hours)
Tour Choir in 11th (which is also volunteer stuff)
Music Composition
attends Columbia SHP on saturdays (10th and 11th)</p>

<p>Awards:
AIME qualifier last 2 years, top AMC 12 scorer this year with 118.5
Suffolk County Math tournament, 1st indiv. in 10th, 2nd in 11th
Phys Ed student of month (sorry, it was funny)
Music student of year for 10th and 11th
NY State Comptrollers award for leadership in 9th
3rd National Spanish exam in 9th
High Honors (which is equiv to 2nd place) in LI Science Congress for research
Qualified for All-County voice
have a HS Diploma in Social music from the Guild (score of 41 C's, 0 A's)
qualified for Juilliard Pre-College in 9th</p>

<p>i posted this in the general site but i loveeee mit, just visited this past week, it was sick, so i want to know my chances if i apply EA</p>

<p>thanks guys!</p>

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<p>EA doesn't really help
you are competitive, now it just depends on how cool you are</p>

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<p>and i forgot, awesome teacher recs, most likely excellent essays</p>

<p>and if i was really "cool", why mit? haha jk i love the place</p>

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<p>EA can help you not stress out too badly, though. Your stats are certainly up to par... good luck!</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>looks good...maybe raising your SAT's a bit if possible.</p>

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<p>question about the sat iis: i got 800 physics, 710 spanish, and 690 lit when i took them in june, which would i want to put down as my 3rd on my app, the 710 in spanish (because its higher) or the 690 lit (because its a lot harder)? I think it said it was 78th percentile for lit and 62nd for spanish, and my cr grade is 690 as it is, so maybe i showed i can at least somewhat read?</p>

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<p>Whichever one you write into the space, they will end up seeing both anyway when you have your scores officially sent from the college board. So really, when you choose which one to write in, you're choosing which one they'll see at first glance (not attached to the whole printout of percentiles and whatnot). And at first glance, the 710 is higher than the 690, so I'd put it down. Just realize it doesn't matter that much either way... anything roughly 700+ won't make or break you.</p>

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<p>SAT I: 790 M, 690 CR, 630 W</p>

<p>MIT website:
For students we admitted in 2005, the middle 50% score range was between 690-770 for the SAT Reasoning Test Verbal and 740-800 for SAT Reasoning Test Math.</p>

<p>you have a chance with everything else in your portfolio...but you really need to get those SAT scores up...you have no chance with the way they are now.</p>

<p>maybe half-columbian will help</p>

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<p>i have no chance? umm if that was 25%-75% that means that 25% of the applicants were below the threshold, i know the scores arent great, and im going to retake the sat, but i think its a little out there to say i have no chance at mit because of those two numbers.</p>

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<p>if you think a 1480 will keep him out, you dont know much about admissions. SAT scores are only part of the story, and a 690 CR is by no means bad enough to throw him out of the admissions pool. 25% of MIT admits scored lower than him. Now you would normally say to only apply if your SAT scores are above the 75th percentile, but that would mean that everyone who applies would have a 1560, which is certainly not the case. Also, there are normally three groups of applicants who are admitted at fairly high rate in the lower quartile of SAT scores. Athletes, URMs, and developmental admits. MIT admits a lower proportion of recruited athletes than other highly competitive schools (most notably harvard and princeton). Also, he is a URM, which basically means that a 1480 is good enough that it wont hurt an application. The rest of his app is amazing, therefore he has as good of a chance as anyone to get in. Of course, nobody has a "good chance" of getting into MIT, but he has among the best chance you could possibly have.</p>

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<p>
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You have no chance with the way they are now

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Matrixrebloated doesn't know what he's talking about. The only score that's on the low side is the writing, and MIT doesn't look at that yet. Your scores are fine. More important than having perfect SATs anyway is showing that you're a good match for MIT and displaying traits that truly make an application hard to set aside like passion, dedication, compassion, intelligence, curiosity, creativity, etc.</p>

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<p>and please, spell colombian right...</p>

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<p>yes
Columbia = college
Colombia = country</p>

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<p>Please keep in mind that it is not just about the scores on SAT's, SAT II's, and AP's. MIT could fill a class with perfect scores in a heartbeat. While grades and std. test scores do play a significant role in the application process, it is not the most important thing. This will become more apparent as you fill out their application. I watched DD complete the application this past year. As she wrote the essays I saw facets of her personality emerge that would not be readily apparent in the typical essay questions. Read the essay questions and take them seriously. Looking back over her responses in addition to her scores, GPA, numerous academic honors, and EC's, I can see why MIT offered admissions to my daughter. Believe me, MIT takes the application process very seriously. </p>

<p>I wish you the best in the college application process this coming year.</p>