<p>Could someone please evaluate my chances? Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>SAT I: 2400
SAT II
- Biology M: 770
- Chemistry: 800
- Math IIC: 800
AP Exams: 5's in Calc AB, Macroecon, Microecon, Calc BC, US Hist, Chemistry; awaiting Psych score (delayed)
Planned AP Exams: Comp Sci AB, Statistics, English Literature, European Hist, Physics B, Latin Literature</p>
<p>GPA: 4.6071 W / 4 UW
Rank: HS doesn't officially rank, but guidance counselor said 1-3 out of 402</p>
<p>Awards:
- 13th in nation TEAMS engineering competition (team competition so not that great)
- 4 gold medals National Latin Exam; perfect scores Level I and Level III/IV Poetry
- National Latin Honor Society
- AIME qualifier 2004, 2005
- 2nd place Rutgers Model UN 2004 Int'l Court of Justice
- 1st in region fall 2004 The Stock Market Game
- National Honor Society
- nominated by school for National Council of Teachers of English writing award (awaiting results in Oct.)</p>
<p>Leadership:
- president, stock market team
- president, math team
- vice president, Model UN
- captain, JETS engineering team</p>
<p>Volunteering:
- 60 hours at school math homework help center
- 30 hours at local nursing home</p>
<p>Summer:
- 2005: Governor's School in the Sciences
- 2004: discrete math program at Rutgers</p>
<p>You have pretty good chances, but don't be too disappointed if you get waitlisted/rejected. Admissions is way too random for anyone on here to accurately predict your chances.</p>
<p>ECs:
- stock market club
- math team
- Model UN
- engineering team</p>
<p>I do not play sports or music; all I have is academics. (If being well-rounded is a criterion for admission, I already know I have no chance.) However, I do volunteer at my school's math homework help center during free periods, and I used to volunteer at a local nursing home. I have a job at my town library working at the circulation desk and shelving books, and I tutor Latin and math for money occasionally.</p>
<p>Does having a visual disability help at all (borderline visually impaired/legally blind)?</p>
<p>I'm surprised you mentioned MIT since practically everyone on these forums who's applying to MIT seems to be a USAMO qualifier, and I never even came close. My school has a pretty good reputation and has about 1,600 students, but only one person has been admitted to MIT in the last five years. She turned them down for Harvard anyway, so that probably won't help anyone from my school. However, I am applying regular decision.</p>
<p>Does volunteering at a nursing home count for community service?</p>
<p>Hello,
I mentioned MIT because, well, admit it, you're lopsided (btw, volunteering at a nursing home is big EC, although not unique stuff). Most Harvard applicants are incredibly well-rounded, you know, but MIT has seen a lot of totally academic kids (btw, I'm one). In comparison to the average MIT applicant, you're at an advantage considering your good grades in the humanities.
Second (this is important), MIT adcoms have officially declared that they give less emphasis on essays than liberal arts colleges do. (See Barron's Essays that Will Get You into College) Did you tell me you can't write essays quite well?
Third, how many people are admitted to MIT each year? Some thousands huh? Do they all have this qualification? You talk as if a USAMO certificate is the key into MIT.
Good luck!</p>