I want to go to MIT for its Sloan Business School but I'm not amazing at math...

<p>I am a Junior and I have recently been doing a lot of research into undergraduate business programs that I am interested in and MIT's Sloan School of Management seems so amazing in its student life, the courses they offer, and rigor of the curriculum. However I know that their business school is probably more focused on the quantative/ more mathematical side of finance/economics/business and that worries me a little bit. You see, I have entered into very few math competitions due to the limited resources my school has (its a brand new high school that opened 3 years ago) and the most intense math related activity I have done is attending a 6 week nationally recognized summer math camp for the past two summers and doing research my second summer (but that was a failure as my research group did not get along.) Other than that, my ECs interest seem more liberal art based and less math/science focused though I did participate in our school's robotics program and help write grants for my sponsor to get robotics materials funding; i have also placed at state for our team's robotics inventions. Check out my stats:</p>

<p>Background Info:
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Asian American
Grade: Junior
Financial Aid: Very unlikely I'll receive much as my EFC is like over 40k o.O
College Major: Undecided
Class Rank: 3/590-ish</p>

<p>Test Scores:</p>

<p>SAT: 2140 (Sophomore year, will retake in March)</p>

<p>WHAP-5</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:</p>

<p>Music:
Honors/Marching Band: 9th, 10th (Drum Major),11th (Drum Major)
Youth Orchestra for 4 years as Clarinet
Numerous Region Band Placements/Solo and Ensemble Awards</p>

<p>Clubs:
Business Professionals of America: 10th,11th (Co-Founder/Co-President)
Spanish Club/Spanish National Honor Society: 9th (Secretary), 10th, 11th (President)
National English Honor Society (Founder-Vice President/President Elect)
NHS: 10th,11th (Junior Group Leader)
Future Problem Solvers (5th-10th)
Robotics: 10th (Marketing Project Leader),11th
UIL Academics (Ready Writing/Science/Math/Social Studies/Accounting): 10th
Interact: 9th,10th(Treasurer),11th(Treasurer)
Student Council: 9th, 10th (Treasurer), 11th (Treasurer)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Kumon: (March 2009-Present)- 5-10 hrs/week
Independent Educational Consultant (Euphemism for FPS Evaluator): 10th,11th</p>

<p>Community Service:
VITA Certified Tax Volunteer (Help Low Income Families File Tax Returns)-10th,11th
200+ hours from Various Volunteer Work
Started a Book Drive that Raised over 700 Books to Students in Uganda-9th/10th
Started another book drive to raise 1000 books and $500 to build a small library in Africa
Sponsored numerous canned food and clothing drives</p>

<p>Awards:
United States Academic Achievement Scholar in English (One of those yearbook organizations, but I didn’t have to pay for anything so I signed up anyway)-10th
All A’s Award (9th Grade,10th Grade)
Advanced to State Every Year for FPS Since 5th Grade
~~5th Place /62 Teams at FPS State Bowl (9th Grade)
3rd Place Robotics State Competition
NASA Aerospace Scholar-11th
5th Place UIL Regionals for Ready Writing-10th</p>

<p>Stand-Outs:</p>

<p>Help robotics sponsor write grants to get funding for robotics materials
Went to a 6 week math for 2 summers and did research (but that failed) my past summer
At 15, was youngest person in the state to pass the IRS certification form so I could be certified to help file taxes to low income families</p>

<p>As you can see my strengths aren't particularily in math and I was wondering if that would hurt my chances if I were to apply EA to MIT next year. In addition, is the rigor/curriculum at MIT hard enough that it requires more than 2 hours of studying for every hour of class you signed up for?</p>

<p>Thank all of you so much for your help!</p>

<p>You don’t have to have math/science-focused ECs to get into MIT, although yours look fine. There’s no need to have extensive participation in math contests.</p>

<p>What you do need to have is a willingness to get through the math you’ll have to take at MIT – everyone is required to take single-variable and multivariable calculus, and management majors are required to take linear algebra and the EECS probability course. If that sounds like your cup of tea, then you should apply, regardless of whether you’re a contest math whiz already or not.</p>

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That’s obviously something that varies from person to person. In general, every class at MIT is offered in “units”, which are supposed to reflect the number of hours total you spend on the course per week (class hours + lab hours + homework hours). Most courses are 12 units, and a typical courseload is 4 12-unit courses, so the goal is that you’d be doing school-related work for about 48 hours per week.</p>

<p>I think the fact that you went to math camps at all puts you ahead of the majority of the people here in math.</p>

<p>Thank you so much for your comments! However, do you think I even have a chance of being admitted much less survive 4 years there?</p>

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<p>If you’re admitted, you can make it. MIT isn’t exactly scrounging for qualified applicants.</p>