Girl on the right track for MIT?

<p>MIT 2010 here. </p>

<p>Wow, how do you have enough time in the day to do all that?!</p>

<p>You’re on the right track. My only concern would be whether you’re sleeping enough. I’m not kidding, not sleeping enough is an epidemic among ambitious high school students, and is probably the single thing that will most affect you physically, mentally, and emotionally in the future. </p>

<p>Definitely got the right instinct about not focusing on the SAT’s since it sounds like you’ll probably do fine with minimal study. God I wish your school doesn’t rank because it’s just slightly screwing up your otherwise stellar priorities. You’re the type of person (as in grades are high enough not to be a concern) to whom I would say: focus on learning the right way (ie not rote and please do question the authority of your teachers), doing things for the right reason (ie for passion and not to get into college), and everything else will follow. Does that mean you’ll get into MIT? Who knows. But you’ll more than likely get into <em>some</em> very prestigious school, and it’ll certainly be more conducive to success and happiness in life, which is much longer than those 4 years in college.</p>