<p>Mootmom, did I understand what you just said correctly - 15 kids from the same school were accepted to MIT in the past two years? What kind of school is it? Private, public, very large, etc? Just curious... and a little mind-boggled since I'm the only one from my public school to get in ever!</p>
<p>The only school I could think of is Stuyvesant High School in NY.</p>
<p>Anybody knows what percentage of the admitted students this year were #1's?</p>
<p>You understood correctly, kcastelle -- in fact I believe there were a few more than 15 acceptances (there were 13 last year alone) but I don't know most of the kids in the HS class of '06 (my son was '05), so I only know two students for sure who were accepted from this year's graduating class. There may have been others.</p>
<p>It is a small private HS in the Silicon Valley area in CA. Class of '05 was amazing: 13 acceptances out of 124 students in the class (yes, 10% of the class was accepted to MIT). I do not know how many of the 124 applied.</p>
<p>..................wow</p>
<p>Haha, we're considering this our best class ever with me going to MIT, another kid to Brown and a third to UCLA. I am thoroughly impressed.</p>
<p>They get them some fancy larnin' in California that we don't have in Ahia, kcastelle. ;)</p>
<p><em>gulps</em> Apparently!</p>
<p>Durn ejumacated folk.</p>
<p>Mm, but dat ejumacashun aint gon git em nowheres so 'sokay.</p>
<p>uma dajeram sojoral higul!</p>
<p>O_O....that iz no engrish!</p>
<p>Hungarian, I believe.</p>
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Interesting that you're not asking if you should apply or not, but rather you should try for a higher score - I assume you mean by prepping and then retaking. Anyway, I would probably focus on your SAT 2s before you worry too much about those, because the scores are in the competitive range , albeit at the lower end.</p>
<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>What do ya'll think of a 2000? 800 math/610 reading/590 writing (9 essay). I know the last two scores are pretty low (very low)... :( maybe low enough to be a 'deal-breaker' (from the fisrt round of the application process)?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>mootmom, does the school name start with an H? also, i never thought of it as small :D</p>
<p>School name starts with H indeed. With less than 150 per class, it's relatively small compared to other local schools. (And the earlier classes, e.g. through Class of '05, were even smaller: 80 to 120-ish.)</p>
<p>Should I ask how you know of this school? Do we know each other? ;) PM is fine...</p>
<p>I'm so jealous... I don't think anyone from my school's ever gone to anything "more prestigious" than one of those huge state universities, and my class starts at 500 (though it ends somewhere near 300).</p>
<p>Excuse my intrusion but the school is Harker. Hahaha, I know it's none of my business but the school is well known around the Bay Area.</p>
<p>EDIT: I remember it well! Harker beat my school in the regional science bowl at SLAC. Hahaha.</p>
<p>i got a 2150 and got into mit but i daresay that i tried to make sure the other "3 legs of the table" were a lot stronger</p>
<p>Why is this thread in the MIT 2010 sub-forum? Isn't that what the general MIT forum is for?</p>