High School Classes for MIT

Hi,

These are the classes that I am/planning on taking during High School.
I plan to go to MIT.

9th Grade: English(ACP), Physics(ACP), Math(Honors), World History(ACP) [Freshman Engineering, Robotics I + II, Game design]

10th Grade: English(ACP), Chem(Honors), Math(Honors), World History(ACP) [Engineering I + II, Programming and CS(Honors), Media Arts(Honors)]

11th Grade: English(ACP), Biology(Honors), Precalc(Honors), US History(ACP), Stats(AP) [Engineering III(Honors), Advanced CS(Honors)]

12th Grade: English(ACP), Physics C M&E(AP), Calc BC(AP), Chem(AP) [IOS Programming(Honors), STILL THINKING]

SAT Subject Tests: Modern Hebrew, Math level 2, Physics, Chem(possibly)

*Please tell me if you have any suggestions for levels or courses.
*I can do Honors History but wasn’t sure if it is a waste of time.

Thank You

You can’t really plan to go to MIT, considering their acceptance rate is less than 8%. You can hope for an acceptance, but don’t ~plan~ on it.

Yeah thats what I meant

Well, what grade are you in, first off?

And are you dual enrolling? If so, why take English four times? Your math classes don’t really match with your science classes, meaning that the level in math in your ninth year does not match with your level in science. Before taking AP Calc BC in 12 grade, you should consider AB because it gives a window into the world of BC. The way I see your schedule, it feels repetitive with the classes you take each year, like English ACP and World History, also math honors

I think your schedule looks fine. You need four years of math, science, English, and Social sciences and world language. I would take history to learn to write well in high school. Calculus AB is just one semester of calculus and you do not need it to take Calculus BC. In most schools you cannot take both as they overlap by fully half the material. Calculus BC is Calc 1 and 2. Some high schools force students to repeat Calculus one by forcing Calc AB in 11th and Calc Bc in 12th grade. If you can accelerate math and take calculus 3 in high school either at a community college or at your high school, thats great. If you cannot do that where you live, do not sweat it. You can try to review calculus using MIT Open Course 18.01, 18.02 on your own. You can take MIT classes on line, for free if you choose and you may want to look at that, for summers if you do not have better things to do. MIT may want you to do something more interesting than just study in the summers. MIT expects some interests to be pursued in depth. Whether it be debate, or math teams, or music. Find something you like to do and do it. Then tell MIT about it.
MIT offers a music/art/maker supplement. Its not required but look at it now, as that will help you decide if MIT is a fit for you. MIT may not be a fit for you, wait until you have taken physics and chemistry to decide. Also consider AP biology, as you have to take one semester of biology to get any MIT degree, even urban planning ! So having strong biology background will help your freshman year at MIT a lot. Even if you do not get into MIT, this plan will get you into GaTech, so also find a few more schools that are similar to MIT. There are plenty of other schools that are very similar. See Cornell, U of Michigan, GaTech, Purdue or west coast schools.

@Idosho
You’ve been given some great guidance in the above replies.

I encourage you to additionally to read the well known blog by MITChris from the admission’s dept. It’s at:
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways

It may have been written a few years back, but it’s just as relevant today as it was then.