<p>Junior year submissions?</p>
<p>Meaning, applying to MIT as a junior? You need to meet the same standards as the senior applicants. It’s not really a hook.</p>
<p>The bar, if anything, is higher for MIT juniors. Also, the stated reason for MIT admitting juniors is that they have exhausted their local academic resources, so if this is not true then you probably won’t get in as a junior even if you are awesome.</p>
<p>piper and collegealum are correct.</p>
<p>I am fairly new to College Confidential but I felt compelled enough to create an account to reply to your post. Our family too faced a bit of dilemma with allowing our son to apply this year; he is currently a junior at a county magnet. As good as his school is at educating the locally gifted, he was able to convince my husband and me that he wasnt really being challenged there. We reluctantly agreed to let him apply to college after he agreed to be at least open to the idea of taking what Ive come to know as a gap year if he determined that he wasnt quite ready. He was accepted into MIT as an early action applicant a few weeks ago and stares at his tube quite often. </p>
<p>We also have a daughter in the 12th grade enrolled at a different school who also dreams of studying there. She has been deferred from early action but is still trying to remain optimistic until decisions are rendered this spring. Both son and daughter had good test scores and very demanding course loads, but my daughter is the better student (i.e., better grades). My son, however, had exposure to some really advanced courses and was often enrolled in classes with juniors and seniors starting his freshman year. He was also recognized for national level accomplishments in math and computer science while my daughter had been more actively involved outside of school.</p>
<p>My advice would only be that if you are 1) academically and socially ready and 2) youve exhausted all available resources at your school, you should indeed consider applying your junior year without necessarily giving much thought to how it will affect your chances. Ultimately, I believe that MIT saw my son as a good fit (he has many friends already attending and has a good idea of what to expect). More importantly, though, MIT most likely believed him when he stated that he was academically ready to leave after having taken most of the advanced classes his school had to offer. My daughter, on the other hand, is a quality applicant who will have a competitive chance for admission, as will the vast majority of those who applied, even those who are ultimately not admitted. My husband and I would not have allowed her to apply her junior year even if we felt that she was academically and socially at the level of those a grade higher, regardless of how doing so may have impacted her odds of getting in. Its hard to describe all the intangibles, but I believe that the early submission process was custom made for my son but not for my daughter.</p>
<p>Final note heres a post my son showed us on MIT’s site [MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Doogie Howser, et al.”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/doogie_howser_et_al.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/doogie_howser_et_al.shtml). Matt McGann, who works for MIT Admissions, was also “underage” when he arrived there. If you are a good candidate for early submission, do believe them when they say they will seriously consider your application just like all the others they review. With regard to whether doing so will improve\hurt your chances, I have not a clue. Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks for that perspective!</p>
<p>A unique and important entry, bpositive.</p>