<p>hi
im currently a freshman in high school
heres my course load for this year and my grades for the first quarter(unweighted):</p>
<p>ap world history-80
intro to computer science-96
honors german 3-99
honors algebra 2-96
honors bio-94
honors english-86</p>
<p>in my school honors classes are weighted by 1.1 and AP classes are weighted by 1.13</p>
<p>my clubs/activities are:
-karate since 6th grade and plan to become a 2nd/3rd degree black belt by end of HS</p>
<p>-FBLA,will do it all 4 years
-quiz bowl,will do it all 4 years
-Key Club,will do it all 4 years</p>
<p>i have started to prepare for the SATs already and have some prep books
my plan is to major in Computer Science from MIT one day
i realise that my social studies and english grades are really low, but it is only the first auarter, and i will definitely bring it up by the end of the first semester
please give me tips and guidance so i can get on the right track and one day go to MIT</p>
<p>i need information as well such as what should my final gpa be and which years really count grades wise and if my math grades remain really high, would it be okay if my social studies grades for this year aren’t as good</p>
<p>It’s not that simple. MIT rejects students with 2400 SAT and perfect GPA’s all the time. A “B” here or there won’t hurt your chances either. Grades/scores are insignificant really, as most applicants are competitive in numbers anyway.</p>
<p>Pursue the things you are interested in and are passionate about. MIT admits people, not numbers.</p>
<p>thank you wise guy, i understand what you are saying.
as i said before i am into computer science, and i plan to create a successful program before i graduate</p>
<p>Saying you want to create a “successful” program isn’t exactly responsive to a suggestion to peruse what you love. Minimizing/reducing the things your’e doing only for external validation will make you less anxious (you’re a freshman – you really don’t need to be on this website yet) and give you strength as a person when you aren’t getting the results you want. If you do end up at MIT, you’re not going to be “the best” or most accomplished, and the school wants to know you’ll have something strong and innate to fight for in these circumstances.</p>
<p>You should also be trying your best at everything and learning to enrich yourself even in subjects which aren’t your favorites, instead of trying to “game” the system by asking what you can get away with in certain areas. MIT values people who can think about all sorts of things and effectively communicate (including in writing) what they’re working on.</p>
<p>it wasn’t really a chance thread…i just what to know if im going the right direction…and i want tips from people who have made it to the college of their choice</p>
<p>Some of the characteristics of Chance threads:</p>
<p>List of courses and grades
Extracurricular activities descriptions
Future plans, anticipated major, and goals
Asking for some sort of an opinion</p>
<p>Looks like one to me and ditto everyone else’s suggestions about how it’s impossibiru to give you yay or nay without more time in high school.</p>
<p>also please relax. high school is not only about getting into college. enjoy the experience and do stuff for the sake of enjoyment, not for the sake of getting into college!</p>
<p>Your desire to study CS tells me you might enjoy trying to pursue some programming? There are tons of free resources, including MIT’s Open Courseware, that can teach you some fundamentals so you can begin to pursue your own projects. Getting a GitHub would be beneficial too, as you could start to build a portfolio that you could then send when you actually are applying! :V</p>
<p>thank you everybody and even if it looks like a chance thread i wasn’t really meant to be one…i just want people to guide to the right direction…and i am enjoying high school! i go to the fun events and hang out with friends a lot! :)</p>
<p>I’m an international student and applied to MIT. I haven’t got an interviewer and I probably won’t get one. I’ve taken a good TOEFL iGBT and I hope to take a full score Math 2 and Physics SAT subject tests. I achieved good places in Physics, Computer Science and Math competitions
I made a mapping robot, a webcam positioning system for my other robot. I was researching in Game Theory at a research institute, and I’m studying my school’s social network currently.
What do you think how possible getting into MIT is for me?</p>
<p>@labu01wx, As you can see in the posts above, “chance” threads are extremely discouraged, especially in the MIT forum. If you read through some admissions blogs on mitadmissions.org, you’ll find that they reject people with perfect scores all the time, and they have also rejected a student who built a nuclear reactor in his garage.</p>
<p>It is okay that you don’t have an interviewer in your area – MIT understands that, especially since you are an international applicant. They will not use that against you when looking over your application.</p>
<p>The thing you should focus on, in trying to determine whether you would be a good fit for MIT, is the match between yourself and MIT’s environment. If you haven’t already, please see:
[The</a> Match Between You And MIT | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/match]The”>What we look for | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>Lastly, even MIT admissions officers themselves cannot even possibly begin to give you what sort of chance you would have at admission. MIT wants to build a diverse class of students, and as such, they admit people, never numbers.</p>
This may be true, but it does surprise me. We do not have interviewers everywhere, but there are quite a few of us. There are interviewers in Zambia, interviewers in Latvia, and interviewers (or more correctly interviewer) in the Northern Mariana Islands. For those places where we really truly have no interviewers, this year we have been offering Skype interviews to the affected candidates. That is not as good as a real face-to-face interview, but it is a lot better than nothing at all.</p>
<p>I contacted with the admission office before my post and got this answer:</p>
<p>“Because there are too many applicants and too few interviewers in Hungary, we have decided to waive all interviews for fairness’ sake (we had to do this in other countries like Italy and China too). Rest assured that this will not affect your chances of admissions in any way. If an interview becomes available to you, we will notify you immediately.”</p>
<p>If I get a Hungarian interviewer, will we speak in English? English is not a problem but there will be a big temptation to use Hungarian instead of English.</p>
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<li><p>Does the mantra of admitting ‘people not numbers’ apply to internationals a swell? I see the 3% admission rate and am gobsmacked at how competitive it is! </p></li>
<li><p>Does the blog post ‘The Match between you and MIT’ apply to internationals as well? </p></li>
<li><p>Also, how does the application evaluation process for internationals differ from that for domestic applicants?</p></li>
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<p>@raj I’ve met a few international students while I was on a recruiting trip. They are simple very bright yet “normal” students. One of them, in fact, was from England. She said she chose MIT last minute after Cambridge rejected her. </p>
<p>As for your second and third points, I can only imagine that MIT evaluates internationals using the same criteria. However, all of them are evaluated during the RD session. Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
You will absolutely use English. I am an international EC (interviewer) and one of the few things that we must evaluate is whether a candidate can function with spoken English, given that most of the courses at MIT are taught in English. As such the interview is ALWAYS conducted in English.</p>
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<p>YES, in fact match is arguably even more important for internationals, given how many highly academically qualified applicants apply from around the world.</p>
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<p>Really it doesn’t. MIT is looking for the same things, in the same way. There is a greater variety of contexts, a greater variety of educational systems and differing opportunities in the international context. That being said, the process is broadly the same. Your application is read the same way by the same admissions officers. Perhaps the only differential is that there is usually one admissions officer who reads ALL of the applications from each area of the world, so one person reads all of the Indian applications, one reads all of the Chinese, etc. That being said, since each application is read multiple times, there is really no significant differential in the processes.</p>
<p>omg im a freshman who wants to apply to mit too! i hate when random ppl say not to think about college until junior year since its a bit too late by then. anyway its better to think about college from the beginning of high school so you will not have any regrets about things you have not done when its time to apply.</p>
and ditto everyone else’s suggestions about how it’s impossibiru to give you yay or nay without more time in high school.</p>