EA Chances For MIT Sloan Undergrad?

<p>Hey everyone,</p>

<p>I am looking to get an idea of my odds of admission to MIT Sloan for undergrad. My stats are below:</p>

<p>GRADES
Freshman Year
All on level classes... About 50/50 As and Bs, all "borderline"
Sophomore Year
2 honors, 2 APs... Again, about 50/50 As and Bs & "borderline"
3 on AP World, 4 on APCS
Junior Year
2 honors, 4 APs, 2 AP Self Studies
All As, in the 92-98 range
5s on all 6 AP exams (Micro/macro econ, us history, stat, human geo, environmental science)
Senior Year
Will be applying EA, so I don't think they will see any of my senior grades... my schedule for next year is: AP BC Calc, AP Lang, AP Comp. Gov., AP US Gov., AP Physics B (highest physics that school offers), Honors Spanish 4, and AP Psychology</p>

<p>TESTS
34 ACT (35 on math... going to go for a 36 though on the next test)
800 SAT Math II
760 SAT Physics
800 SAT US History</p>

<p>ECs
Varsity track, XC freshman and sophomore years
President of Investment Club Junior Year (member all 4 years)
Elected SGA Treasurer senior year
Elected to Student Leadership Council senior year
Active member in INTERACT Club (community service)
Eagle Scout
Going to Wharton's LBW summer program this summer (between junior and senior years)
Started a business (more on this below)
In the beginning process of creating a charity with dozens of other high school students from around the world
Will be inducted into 3 honor societies senior year (mu alpha theta, NHS, national history honors society)</p>

<p>ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Started tech company in 8th grade (iPhone apps)
Self-taught programming from Stanford classes that are on iTunes U
Daily revenue has exceeded $4,000
Apps used by over 40k people daily
One app peaked at #2 in the entire Apple App Store (above Facebook, Groupon, etc.)
Over 4,000,000 downloads
Backed out of a 6-figure venture round for another company I was working on to focus more time on school
Company has been featured in New York Times and on the front page of my local newspaper
I had 2 full time employees at company's peak (have since scaled down to focus on school)
Recruited ex-CFO of major internet gaming company to sit on my board of directors
Recruited ex-SVP of business dev. at XBox Live to manage day-to-day operations of company while I was at school</p>

<p>OTHER
Teacher recs will be awesome
Essays should be great too
Will probably get the ex-CFO that I recruited for my board to write a rec letter as well
School does not report rank/percentile (they do report mean standardized test scores though and number of APs, both of which I am in the top percentile in)
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
Received University of Rochester Xerox Award
Received $2000 Discus Scholarship for Outstanding achievement outside of the classroom
Going to Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference this summer for a week</p>

<p>I know my grades the 1st 2 years were below average. However, and this is by no means an excuse, my company <em>was</em> taking up an incredible portion of my time then and interfered with school sometimes when I had to fly across the country to talk to CEOs of game studios about partnerships. </p>

<p>What do you think my chances are? Will they overlook my freshman and sophomore grades? I feel like my business background in unique for MIT... will this help or hurt me?</p>

<p>Thanks so much for your time!</p>

<p>I’m not exactly sure why you want to go to MIT. At the undergrad level, MIT is strongly focused on STEM fields so it may not be a good fit. Although Sloan is excellent, my impression is that MIT generally only admits students primarily interested in STEM fields. Your business experiences seem impressive so I would recommend considering other schools that are more business focused.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t bother retaking the ACT if I were you. You seem like a good fit for Wharton, and if you apply ED, you might have a shot. Have you considering doing that instead? I’m not positive, but I think it might even be possible to apply ED to Wharton and EA to MIT and then just withdraw your MIT app if you get into UPenn. You should look into that option</p>

<p>You don’t apply to Sloan. You apply to MIT. So you might want to mold your passions to be a bit closer to MIT’s missions (advancement of science and technology).</p>

<p>You will probably get in any business school of your choice! In fact you grade are good! So good luck</p>