<p>Is it possible to get the admission from MIT without High School transcript?</p>
<p>Because I am from oversea and my GPA .. is just sux....</p>
<p>MIT is only place I ever want to get in.</p>
<p>Would anyone tell me what to do?</p>
<p>and what should I do to get high enough score for SAT to get into MIT?</p>
<p>Plus, .. I do not have any award but some experiences working in company as an office clerk..</p>
<p>Please!! Help me!!</p>
<p>MIT requires a high school transcript.</p>
<p>Fewf said it. MIT won't take you without a transcript, unless you have a good reason for not having one. That being said, I don't think "My GPA sucks" is a good reason. Besides, you have to fill out grades on the application anyway.</p>
<p>If it's because your GPA isn't weighted similarly to US standards, you can explain that, and they will consider you within the context of your own school's system. If your school's GPA only goes from 0-3, and you have a 2.8, they probably won't hold it against you.</p>
<p>As for high SAT scores, you study. There's really no better way. Buy some books on SATs if they're available to you. If they're not, I'm sorry to say it, but you don't stand a chance. The SAT I is becoming less and less a test of your skills, and more and more a test of your ability to take the SATs. The SAT IIs can be defeated by vigorous studying though, and many aren't even too difficult (hard not to get 750+ on physics, chemistry), as long as you know the subject.</p>
<p>In short: explain your GPA system, if it's bad, hope that everything else makes up for it. Study for your SATs, if you can't, then just keep taking them and try to learn from the actual tests. Work experience always helps, so be sure to mention that.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you. Also, some very good advice would be to not get married to this one college. MIT is the best, but several other schools can offer you a great undergraduate education, which you can then take to MIT for grad school.</p>
<p>Good luck to you, I'll be in the grind applying for '10 as well.</p>
<p>How do you not have any awards? You've never won anything? Ever? Silver Level Swimming Certificate from the Melbourne County Swimming Fountain? First kid to get to the ice cream truck? "I tried" award from the American Red Cross Blood Driver?</p>
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<p>Terrible assumption to make. Honestly, not everyone wins all the time, or even at any time. Can you imagine going to the same high school as some of the posters on here? They'd win everything, and you'd never have a shot. A lot of people have experiences like that. Awards aren't everything.</p>
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<p>You have my sympathies. What have you done to PREPARE for getting into MIT? If you have a strong knowledge of math and science (the characteristic subjects taught at MIT), you should have some way to show what you know. </p>
<p>You have to show what school grades you have obtained before, because they are an imperfect, but still suggestive, sign of what grades you will get if you are admitted to MIT. Different countries have different standards and different grading systems, but you have to show that you are ready to do MIT-style work. That's tough if your school's teachers are unfair or give useless assignments, but then you have to take initiative to do challenging academic work outside school. </p>
<p>Good luck. Be SURE to think about other schools besides MIT to apply to--no one can count on getting into MIT, especially someone who has grades he is trying to hide from view.</p>
<p>Terrible assumption to make. Honestly, not everyone wins all the time, or even at any time.
You may need to upgrade to Mozilla Firefox, a sarcasm enabled web browser. Everybody has won something, even if it is "first student to get detention in Mr. McFry's class".</p>
<p>Can you imagine going to the same high school as some of the posters on here? They'd win everything, and you'd never have a shot. A lot of people have experiences like that.
I like oysters. Do you like oysters?</p>
<p>Awards aren't everything.
But to get into MIT, you need something.</p>
<p>Well, if he goes to a school, and doesn't win awards, then:</p>
<p>A) There are uber smart kids who are winning awards</p>
<p>B) Nobody wins awards</p>
<p>If A is the situation, then unless those kids are applying to MIT, Caltech, IIT, etc, you should stand a chance against them.</p>
<p>If B is the situation, you should take the initiative to start awards giving out.</p>
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<p>Or perhaps I should upgrade to a better pair of eyes so I can actually see the screen and not have to rely on a text-to-speech reader, which elimates all inflection and reads everything in a flat, sarcasm-free tone, to tell me what's being said.</p>
<p>I like decency. Do you like decency?</p>
<p>beginning: Why don't you just magnify the screen, or increase the font size?</p>