Few last minute questions!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Sorry I keep asking so many small questions. </p>

<p>There are just some things that I'm not sure if I should or shouldn't include in my application that came to mind when I was checking it over. </p>

<p>Last summer I worked for my moms boss doing a lot of things on the computer. She had to file a bunch of reports because she runs a trade school and needed to get it re-accredited and I did all those reports for her since they all had to be electronic and she didn't know how. I also did a bunch of other things. I got paid by the hour and probably made around $300 dollars over the whole summer so it technically counted as work but I don't know how to put this on my application or if I should. </p>

<p>Also I got something called the "President's Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence" in ninth grade. I can't remember much about it. Is it worth putting on my application?</p>

<p>Finally, I just took ACTs because of my comparatively weak writing section, I don't think MIT even looks at the writing and I have a 1550/1600. I wasn't planning on sending my ACT scores anywhere until I saw them but that will be after I send this. Should I just not mention them on my application and send in the scores when I get them if I think they'll help?</p>

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<p>Its not the tiny tiny tiny ECs that are going to make effect on ur application... I have a lot of great ECs... when i met up with my teachers who did recommendations for me, they told me that they wrote stuff touching upon certain club activities that i did not mention on my MIT app because of the 5 slot limit... i also did a program called Shad Valley over the summer, and MIT did not let me explain what i did there... so im going to assume my teachers wrote something on that... or MIT can always search up the summer program lol... just make it short and sweet bro.. sometimes more can hinder u (hence why they want short essays to)</p>