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Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>*What are some other good safeties and matches??</p>

<p>Asian Male (Indian) in Texas</p>

<p>Freshman/Sophomore rank was 20/975 (not that good i guess)
Junior GPA - 4.0 unweighted (we don't have ranking)
*Freshman/Sophomore spent at a competitive public school and Junior and Senior year spent at a competitive magnet school</p>

<p>ACT-34 (retaking)</p>

<ul>
<li>Scored a 5 on the Human Geography AP Exam</li>
<li>Scored a 5 on the World History AP Exam</li>
</ul>

<p>*We only take college courses at my school, so no APs offered</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities (keeping it nice and short)</p>

<p>Research Organization President (9-12)</p>

<p>Invisible Children Co-Founder and Vice-President (10-12)
-raised $2000 for Ugandan children</p>

<p>Band (9-12)
-First Chair
-Section leader
-Squad leader</p>

<p>Engineering Club (9-12)
-Was President of the equivalent club in 10th grade, but we are limited to only one position at my new school and so I chose Research Organization President</p>

<p>Science Bowl (11-12)
-Might be captain next year
-Part of the Varsity Team
-Received 2nd place at Regionals/ missed nationals by one spot :-(</p>

<p>Math Club (9-12)
-First Tier Mandelbrot Team</p>

<p>Academic
Senior Year Schedule
Fall Semester</p>

<p>-Physics 1710 (lecture), Physics 1730 (lab)
-English 2210
-History 2610
-Calculus 3
-Discrete Math
-Differential equations 1 or Linear Algebra or perhaps nothing</p>

<p>Spring Semester (TENTATIVE)–</p>

<p>Physics 2220 (lecture), Physics 2240 (lab)
English 2220
History 2620
Differential Equations 1
Vector Calculus
Computer Science 2</p>

<p>Summer Activites</p>

<p>Research
- I am attending the Simons Summer Research Program this summer
-I have been doing research every summer since 9th grade working 50 hr/wk for 9 weeks</p>

<p>MAIN Awards</p>

<p>International BioGENEius Finalist
Lemelson/MIT InvenTeams Grant of $10,000
2nd Place Texas State Science Fair
2nd Place Texas Stockholm Junior Water Prize/ missed nationals by one spot :-(
Received Outstanding Soloist Award at American Classic Music Festival (3/~1000 people received this award)</p>

<p>*Entering Siemens, Intel, etc. next year</p>

<p>THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME</p>

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<p>I wish I made my title more interesting…</p>

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<p>Good application – you have what it takes, I imagine. If I were an admissions officer, I’d be happy with a lot of what you’re doing senior year.</p>

<p>Now you have to turn your love for technical subjects into something marketable to the school. If you somehow manage that, good chances – but it’s not so easy to predict what MIT is looking for sometimes. Nevertheless, I’m sure whoever reads your application there will have lots of respect for you.</p>

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<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>MIT is pretty ridiculous to get into, but I would say that you have a fair shot at getting admitted. The class rank will definitely hurt, but at least you’re improving and showing a lot of passion in various things, which the admissions people will love. I would just make sure that your essays really depict you as a person, and hope for the best. Good Luck :)</p>

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<p>Thanks. Does anyone know when the actual MIT app comes out? I plan to apply EA.</p>

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<p>late summer</p>

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<p>It’s hard to tell what to make of a school like yours, and transferring complicates things… I think you’d get the most accurate idea by looking at how other people from your school do.</p>

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<p>This year we had 6 ppl make it to MIT, but most of the students were ridiculous. One was Wen who won first place at Siemens, another kid was a math whiz, two were twins with like a triple legacy, some kid who had like some major financial obstacles that he faced, and then there was some other person that I could probably relate to in terms of stats.</p>

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<p>For goodness’ sake, don’t retake the ACT.</p>

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<p>haha too late I already signed up for next week’s ACT</p>

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<p>BTW, anyone have the old MIT app PDFs?</p>

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<p>^lol are you planning on writing your essays early?</p>

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<p>Haha, yeah, I like to have plans, and it’s hard to plan without knowing whats ahead.</p>

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<p>I know what you mean. I’m planning to finish the app before school starts as well.</p>

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<p>I checked the website…I think only teacher rec forms are up…but I dont think its that much different than the common app, besides that it has only 5 spaces for ECs and 7 for awards (my friend told me when I asked him)</p>

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<p>I thought MIT actually had their own essay prompts though…</p>

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<p>^I think you can search for them on CC…but thye wont repeat will they?</p>

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<p>I’m not sure, but I feel like I heard somewhere that the past two MIT apps have had the same essay topics.</p>