<p>Hi I have always wanted to join MIT and I am originally from Ethiopia and Study currently at Braeburn high in Kenya do you think i would have a chance at MIT</p>
<p>It’s impossible to know your chances with the information you provided. Be aware that international admissions is significantly more competitive than domestic admissions.</p>
<p>OK I Have got in my IGCSE
Add math :A
extended math:A
English language:A
English literature:A
IT:A
Business studies:B
Chemistry:A
Physics :A</p>
<p>ECA: Presents award Bronze AND gold</p>
<p>You have a chance as long as you apply.</p>
<p>Tesfab - </p>
<p>We take students from Africa every year. You should definitely apply!</p>
<p>@Tesfab when do you graduate from high school?
I’m from Ethiopia as well. I am currently a junior in high school. I live in the U.S. and plan to apply to MIT next fall.</p>
<p>Sorry to bump an old thread.</p>
<p>But I’d like to hear the answer to Ayantu’s question. </p>
<p>Ayantu, which I’m guessing is actually your real name, you and I have the exact same story. From Ethiopia, junior in high school, and plan on applying to MIT next year. Nice to see fellow Ethiopians on CC. The fellow Ethiopians in my area have seemed to stigmatize leaving our state for College.</p>
<p>I think that it was pointed out earilier, that there is no way to answer Ayantu’s question. I would urge you to apply if you think that would really want to go to MIT. MIT accepts africans every year, and I interview africans every year (although my region is not in Africa).</p>
<p>However, the only thing I would advise is to give some thought as to why you want to go to MIT. In the interview cycle that just finished, I interviewed a young Nigerian man and when I asked him why he wanted to go to MIT, he talked about the gathering of people who had left his village to study abroad, and the respect that was immediately afforded to those who had gone on to Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Stanford, Cambridge and Yale. And he wanted that kind of respect. His whole family would be very proud.</p>
<p>I wasn’t particularly thrilled with this answer (any answer which does not distinguish between say MIT and Princeton is not a great answer), nor, after further questioning about his focus on going to MIT for his family’s sake rather than his own. He did not get in. Sadly, although this was the most recent example, I get this sort of answer (though perhaps not quite as extreme as this example) from at least one African every other year.</p>
<p>Good Luck with your application.</p>
<p>PS: I am typing this from my hotel room in Kenya.</p>