I am a freshman in high school and want to get into Stanford or MIT does anyone have any tips to help me get there or anything that will help lead through my years of high school to get me there? (Preferably someone who has got accepted there)
If you don’t have hooks then you’ll need to make some. By that I mean brilliant and talented students are a dime a dozen, so schools can sift through them and pick the ones they want to create a lovely incoming class. You might not be able to change your parents or home town at this point, so you’ll need to find some other way of making yourself stand out when it comes to admissions time. Win national science awards, become an outstanding athlete or artist, help a parent become president of the United States, or come up with a huge pile of cash to donate. Otherwise just do your best, have a great high school career where you develop some strong interests and invest yourself in them and do well, and then maybe learn about more than a few familiar schools.
Why do you want MIT or Stanford? Are you sure what you want to study? How much money are you going to have at your disposal? Have you been in Boston in February? It’s something I say to a lot of people, but don’t settle for familiar names. There are thousands of schools in different places, offering different programs attracting different sets of students. What if you want creative writing? If you want to go to medical school the conventional wisdom is to take a free undergrad ride so you can minimize the inevitable med school loans.
So do well in high school, take tough classes in the areas you think you’ll want to focus on in college, pick extra-curriculars that you have real passion for, and keep reading about schools. You may find one that you fall in love with, and it might even be Stanford, but 9th grade is early for that kind of focus.
Make sure that your extracurriculars are related, as many spread themselves thin and insert themselves in every extracurricular they can find. To colleges, this turns to be very unattractive as it doesn’t demonstrate any form of passion, but rather gives the idea that you’re joining these extracurriculars for the wrong reasons. Again, it’s quality over quantity. As for gpa, I know someone who got a B in freshman biology but was able to get into Stanford simply because she demonstrated improvement throughout her years. I would say that stanford emphasizes heavily on extracurriculars and overall character while MIT just looks at statistics, because of this, they are a bit different
I know of very few people who ever got into MIT. You would have to aim for perfect standardized testing scores… so it really depends on who you are as a person… do you have perfect stats? or do you have decent stats but amazing extracurriculars?
MIT definitely doesn’t just look at statistics.
Hi… can some one help… DD will be future bsmd applicant…she loves doing medicine in future. DD in 8th grade now, and she is trying to select freshman courses. For languages she wants to take Latin 1 for 9th and Latin 2 for 10th . Only two years of language in high school. She said really want to take Latin only, but her middle school counselor said, Latin is not spoken language, so she has to take another laungage with Latin, and she has to take atleast 4 years of language if she has to get into ivy league. Competitive colleges 3 years of language in high school.
She will be taking marching band and concert band all 4 years, so she won’t have course work to take these many courses.
Can someone help understand, if it’s really true that she has to take spoken language and 4 years of language for her to get into ivy league and competitive colleges.