Course 15 Double Major

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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I’ve always been interested in double majoring in some sort of business and some kind of engineering; MIT’s Sloan Course 15 let’s one do so very easily!

I’m interested in both the Business Operations Analytics Research and Marketing concentrations, and doubling in either Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science and Engineering.

Which of the four combinations (Marketing+CS/EE, Marketing+CSE, BOAR+CS/EE, or BOAR+CSE) would be the easiest to get accepted to with the following?

GPA Scale: A in a regular class: 4.0 ; Honors/AP:5.0
Unweighted/ Weighted GPA: 3.65 / 4.41
Class rank: Top 15% in the over 650 kids in my graduating class
ACT: 31 (taking classes and hoping to increase this to a 33)
Senior Course Load: AP Econ/Gov (1st/2nd semester), AP Literature, AP Calc AB, AP Physics, AP Computer Science, and Advanced Marketing
AP Courses: 9 by the end of next year

Extra curricular:
DECA (co-cirricular business/marketing organization):
Arizona DECA State Officer (Represent 9,000 students)
Served as Chapter Vice President & Public Relations Officer
Won 1st Place in Entrepreneurship Innovation Plan Junior Year (Developed an app plan), 3rd Place in Marketing Communications Sophomore Year
Two Year International Career Development Conference Qualifier
International Media Correspondent

Speech & Debate:
4 Year Speech and Debate member
Served as Speech and Debate Secretary
3 Year Varsity Debater

American Red Cross:
4 Year American Red Cross member
Serve as Red Cross Public Relations Officer

Other:
National Honors Society (2 Years)
Mentoring Program
Key Club
Large amount of community service
Arizona State University’s Business Scholar

WORK:
Corporate Marketing IT Intern for 2 Years
Marketing Manager for local business for 1 Year
Started my own business by coding my own website and creating an online retail website.

Plan on starting an engineering organization at my school
Ethnicity: Asian/Indian

First Generation American
First Generation College Student

Also, I know my GPA is relatively low as is my class rank. Would it be better for me to apply for regular decision and get my grades up first semester of senior year?
Any help/advice would be appreciated, thanks!

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When you’re applying to MIT you don’t apply to a specific department, you apply to the institution as a whole. You have time to choose a major by the end of Freshman year. If admissions loves everything about your application except only your GPA is making them hesitant to issue you an acceptance, i don’t think that they will reject you because they can defer you and wait for your next semester’s grades. So it’s up to you if you should apply early or not. I applied early with a low SAT 2 score and got deferred. I took another exam and sent the new scores in with an additional essay and was accepted.

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Thanks @rothstem! So if I were to apply early, I would still have a chance to be thrown into the RD?

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All MIT freshman are initially undeclared, and usually don’t declare a major until end of freshman year, so I don’t think your “intended” major(s) will have any bearing on your application.

Edit: rothstem beat me to it. :slight_smile:

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So if I were to apply early, I would still have a chance to be thrown into the RD

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If you apply ED, they will either accept you, defer you to the RD pool where you will be viewed equally among all RD applicants, or they will reject you.