getting admitted to MIT

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):
1st sitting---640 / 620 / 590
2nd sitting---740 / 560 / 650</p>

<p>SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):
740 / 620 / 650</p>

<p>ACT (breakdown Composite ===English/Math/Reading/Science/Writing):
1st sitting---28===28 / 31 / 24 / 28 / 10
2nd sitting---29===30 / 33 / 27 / 26 / 8
3rd sitting---29===30 / 30 / 27 / 27 / 6</p>

<p>ACT superscore (breakdown):
30===30 / 33 / 27 / 28 / 10</p>

<p>SAT II (subject, score):
Math 2: 760
Physics: 680
World History: 610</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
3.85</p>

<p>Weighted GPA:
4.2</p>

<p>AP (place score in parentheses):
AP Language and Composition (3)
AP US History (4)
AP World History (3)
AP Physics B (5)
AP Statistics (5)</p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load:
AP Macroeconomics, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, Computer Programming/JAVA, World Literature, Humanities</p>

<p>Number of other applicants in your school: 2</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Eagle Scout</p>

<p>Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): Nat'l AP Scholar, </p>

<p>Honor Society's: Beta club, national honor society, national spanish honor society, mu alpha theta math honor society </p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: space research program, Boy Scouts, Robotics Team leader & veteran, Math Team leader & veteran, science Olympiad leader & veteran, church youth group
Job/Work Experience: Life guard at Boy Scout camp
Volunteer/Community Service: City Soccer Association- concessions and field setup; Nursing Home help; history museum reanactor; Coca cola space science center tour guide and camp counselor;
Summer Experience: the volunteer work above and living in Nigeria with relatives for some summers</p>

<p>I'm probably forgetting some stuff</p>

<p>Space research program: we launch massive balloons that carry experiments and sensors to the edge of space and go on a chase to find them and analyze the data. We on the payload, we put magnetometers, accelerometer, temperature sensors, UV sensors, infrared sensors, Geiger counters, radios, 3 video cameras, ....We have to put together and program, CAD the designs for the payload on the computer, and we reach out to other schools so they can put experiments on our box, and it's a team of about 10,so it's a lot of work</p>

<p>Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):</p>

<p>Essays:</p>

<p>What You Do For Pleasure: robotics team stuff (6)
Department at MIT: nuclear science (8.5)
Trait Most Proud Of: good teacher/ relayer of knowledge (8.5)
World You Come From: immigrant parents from a poor country (with energy/power problems) which inspired me to to nuclear science (9)
Significant Challenge: teaching nuclear science to Boy Scout troop (getting others to know about what i love) (8)
Additional Essay/QB Essays: wrote about research with the school and city space program
Other (teacher's subject, 1-10 rating, details):</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendation #1: (10). Space Research sponsor, AP Physics teacher, and robotics sponsor; I've had him everyday for two years and he is obsessed with MIT. he gives us tests straight for their OCW.
Teacher Recommendation #2: (7.5 ) Spanish teacher- he let me see it. half of it was just the resume I gave him and the other half was original. He knew me outside of school from scouts.
Counselor Rec: she didn't even know me personally. Our school is too big
Additional Info/Rec: (8.5) i sent a 3rd rec from the math team coach/AP Calc teacher; she wrote about how I take initiative to learn outside of class and do pretty well at math competitions
Interview: (6.75)</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>U.S. State/Territory or Country: Georgia
School Type: liberal arts college prep magnet
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: male
Income Bracket Range: less than 200,000
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): URM</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths: research program, recommendations, essays, URM
Weaknesses: tests scores</p>

<p>Have you considered Georgia Tech. Your standardized test scores are well below MIT caliber.</p>

<p>^ I agree. Another out of the box thought based on your interest in nuclear science is Reed College in Portland OR. The students run the nuclear reactor there.</p>