Early Admission MIT

<p>Frankly, I belive your chances of early admission to MIT as a junior are slim to none. I interview a lot of students for admission to MIT and the only times I can recall students being admitted early is if they were such academic superstars that it was was absolutely obvious they would not benefit from an extra year. This would include IMO medalists or students with extraordinary achievements in research or science. Your record would at best be considered lower than average by MIT standards. </p>

<p>Ther are several reasons why I believe you should wait another year before applying:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Your test scores are relatively marginal. You don’t even have any SAT II scores yet. </p></li>
<li><p>You have not yet completed any advanced AP classes such as calculus. Many applicants take calc as sophomores or juniors and multi-variable as seniors. You can always take classes at the local community college if they are not available at their high school. MIT likes to see students who have succeeded with very rigorous schedules. Get the math/science APs under your belt and show you can succeed in harder classes. </p></li>
<li><p>You have a lot of ECs but they are all over the map and none demonstrate a serious commitment to the sciences. An internship with a lab does not qualify as a major achievement and nobody believes that you could publish a scientifc paper in genetics without ever having taken any advanced classes in biology or chemistry. Spending an extra year to showw commitment to the research and possibly submit the results to the Intel/Siemens compettion would greatly help.</p></li>
<li><p>Participate in some national math/science competitions such as the AMC and try to get to the AIME at least. Frankly, business math awards won’t impress MIT. </p></li>
</ol>

<p>It seems you have spent the last four months trying to get feedback on your chances in multiple threads on cc with often different claims as to your achievements. In one thread you state you will take AP Calc BC junior year.In this thread you claim it is not even offered. In one you claim SAT scores of 2349 (!) and SAT II math scores of 800. Now your SAT I has dropped to 2220 and no SAT II scores at all! It is hard to know what to believe. This indicates a lack of self-confidence. You should not worry so much about what will impress admissions committees. Do something because you genuinely like it. Most exceptional candidates stand out without much effort. </p>

<p>If you are really serious about MIT, you should buckle down and show an excellent junior year record first and focus on a few key elements before applying senior year. At this point, your are clearly not ready! </p>

<p>This is my sincere advice based on years of experience interviewing candidates to MIT.</p>