<p>Can anyone give a true example of someone who was accepted into MIT? or at least just a guess?
SAT scores, what classes, awards, extracurricular activities, gpa, etc.</p>
<p>As a current MIT student, there’s no “ideal” or “perfect” application. However, I’d say most accepted students satisfy the following:</p>
<p>SAT: 2000+
Classes: fairly rigorous, pre-calculus virtually required, most take calculus in HS
Awards: varies widely, some have few awards, others have awards from major international competitions such as IMO or IOI
Extra-curricular activities: also varies widely
GPA: close to 4, unweighted</p>
<p>The [CC</a> results thread for last year](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/1588918-mit-class-of-2018-consolidated-ea-rd-results-thread-p1.html]CC”>MIT Class of 2018 Consolidated EA/RD Results Thread - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - College Confidential Forums) is stickied at the top of the forum, and the results threads for the past five or six years are linked in the first post of the FAQ (also stickied).</p>
<p>What kinds of ECs did you do? </p>
<p>… did you read the thread that Mollie linked? Plenty of people talk about their ECs there.</p>
<p>As MIT students, do you guys feel that most had “sciencey” and “mathy” extracurriculars during high school? My school’s not the strongest in science (although the FIRST Robotics team did go to internationals…but I honestly do not like the people in it or robotics itself, so I didn’t join for longer than a week my freshman year). However, I do adore biology and would feel very “fit” in a school with a bunch of science and math geeks around 
(luckily had the chance to visit…we didn’t get to see Arceus). I’ll be starting something at my school related to science, probably USABO, and possibly some research in something I’ve found very interesting when I started tracing my family’s lineage (it’s complicated). What do you guys think? Would I fit? Maybe…what are your first impressions of me o_O? Thanks :D!</p>
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<p>Be careful about seeking approval for how to change your HS life to better “fit” into an applicant that MIT will more likely accept. Admissions folks are very experienced at seeing right through that. </p>
<p>Remember to be yourself. </p>
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A lot did, yes, but not everybody. Personally, I did show choir and theater in high school.</p>
<p>Theater, karate, and flying My school had pretty much 0 science-y activities.</p>
<p>Oi, thank you for the very fast replies :)! </p>
<p>@jpm50
Sometimes, I feel like I conform to being “the fit” without even knowing, but at the same time, I feel happiest when I’m that way. When I really think about it, how I act at school is sometimes not who I really am! Thanks for the reminder, though :)!</p>
<p>@molliebatmit
Awesome!</p>
<p>@PiperXP</p>
<p>Awesome also XD! What do you mean by “flying,” haha? As an aside, I’ve always wanted to sky dive and accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 for like half an hour and scream my head off, but meh…I’m the one who tends to get financial aid, let’s say (though I’ve heard MIT tends to be less generous and, instead, works it out with loans…I don’t feel like that’ll be the ultimate deciding factor, however) :P…</p>
<p>I mean getting to the point where I could fly a plane (Cessna 152) by myself.</p>
<p>I’ll note that traditional skydiving only lasts a minute or two. Indoor skydiving is cheaper per time and still tons of fun :)</p>
<p>@PiperXP
That’s freaking awesome XD! My spirit animal is a bird, and when I ice skate, I pretend I’m flying, but that’s pretty much it, haha.</p>