I'm sure you're sick of it, but what are my chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Hey guys, I'm going to be applying to MIT Early Action this fall and I was wondering if I even stand a chance. Here are my stats:
Classes:
Freshman Year:
-Biology w/Lab
-PLTW Design and Drawing for Production (PLTWs are college credit courses associated with RIT)
-Algebra
-English
-PE
-French II
-Global History Pt 1</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
-English
-French III
-AP European History en lieu of Global Pt 2
-Geometry Honors
-PE (Half Year)
-Health (Half Year)
-Electronics (Half Year)
-Technical Drawing (Half Year)
-Chemistry w/Lab</p>

<p>Junior Year:
-AP English Language and Comp
-AP US History
-AP Physics B
-AP French
-PLTW Principals of Engineering
-Trigonometry Honors
-PE</p>

<p>Senior Year (Tentative):
-AP Physics C
-AP English Lit and Comp
-AP Calculus BC
-AP Computer Science
-AP Macroeconomics
-PLTW Digital Electronics
-PLTW Computer Integrated Manufacturing
-Fencing</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 96.15%
Unweighted: 92.4%
Class Rank: Top 10% (To the best of my knowledge. My school doesn't rank.)
SATI: 2250
SATII: Physics 800 Math II 790
EC:
-FIRST FRC Robotics Team (4 years, captain for the last 2)
-NHS - (2 years) Chairperson of Communications (NHS has 600ish members)
-Shop Squad (2 years) President (Maintains school shops)
-Columbia University - Science Honors Program (1 year)</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939227-reminder-no-one-not-even-me-can-give-you-accurate-chance-mit.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939227-reminder-no-one-not-even-me-can-give-you-accurate-chance-mit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>yeah, ctrl+C ctrl+V does get tiring after awhile.</p>

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<p>Also, try the Michael Woods post “For anyone wanting to know their ‘chances’ of getting into Caltech” … it’s something someone like you probably should check out. </p>

<p>As someone who has no deep knowledge and just hangs around school forums with math/science/engineering focuses in general, I’ll say yes, you have a chance, but there’s a lot of luck involved once you’re basically a strong candidate (people at the elite schools want to accept more people than they can) - they can’t accept the same kind of person for all their spots, so they select for distinct kinds of people who exemplify their mission. That is, a blend of academic ability and mindset and skills/interests…and probably more that I’m missing.</p>

<p>The reason I wrote this is as a concise summary of what Karen’s link is meant to change about your thinking regarding the admissions process (whereby “chances” are less useful than you’d expect) at MIT and, although only implicitly, in general for many of the elites (which, as the thread I directed you to should suggest, are NOT all looking for the same thing).</p>