Alright, so I have the same question as pretty much every high school student here: will insert college here accept me? I’m just wondering what people’s thoughts are. I’m a sophomore in high school with dreams of becoming a research chemist, and going to school in the Boston area. So naturally, being the ambitious person I am, MIT seems likes the perfect choice. However after extensive research I’m terrified I’ll be rejected. Of course I have fall back schools and everything, but I really would love to go to MIT. It just seems so geek-y, like me! I know they look for well-rounded students and whatnot, and I’m wondering if people honestly give me some perspective on my chances based on my ‘stats’. So to get started, I took all honors courses freshman year with no study hall and earned straight As. This year is the same, no study hall, all honors, I even doubled up sciences with biology and chemistry at the same time. Straight As so far. I’m really hoping to graduate a semester early and look into an internship at the planetarium near where I live. This was suggested to me by my French teacher actually, she believes it will help me to get ahead and stand out in my field of interest more than a semester of AP English Lit will. I like her idea and in order to do this and get ahead in mathematics, I plan to take pre-calculus online over the summer, and then go right to calculus junior year (unheard of in my school) and for the last semester of senior year take the second installment of calc (BC). My junior year courses would be open English and American history (so I can focus on STEM more) AP French (I will be fluent by the time I graduate) AP Physics, AP Chemistry, and AP Calculus AB, and of course band. The semester of senior year would include the Calculus BC, and courses like astronomy and music theory. I’m a member of the French Honor Society at my school, and the Tri-M chapter we have (for music). I play three instruments which I love. I’m also serious about ballet, which I’ve been doing since I was two. I participate in my school’s math team, which isn’t taken as seriously as I’d like it to be… I’m not much for engineering so i’m not on the robotics team. For my Senior Project I will be learning Russian as a third language, which I’ve already started. Next year I will have time for a job so I’d like to tutor elementary school students who need extra help. I have lots of goals and ambitions for my life, but I’m worried I’ll be rejected because of my lack of involvement with other people. All of my ECs are centered on self-improvement rather than the community, and this is mainly because the student body at my high school are unmotivated to do anything except for sports, which I don’t do (and don’t plan on doing ever). It’s also partially because I don’t like interacting with people like that. Once I get to college and there are other people like me, it will be totally different, but I don’t want to waste my time on people who don’t care anyway… The idea of starting study groups or whatever is fine, but I know from prior experience with my classmates that these efforts would be in vain because nobody is committed enough for things like that. Competitions are always an idea, but I seriously doubt my abilities to win any awards (I’m not a genius, I just like asking questions and doing research on them.) Does anyone with some experience with MIT admissions have any advice? Thanks.
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so I have the same question as pretty much every high school student here: will insert college here accept me?
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@bandgeek019:
Rest assured, there are many colleges who will definitely accept you. MIT however, is not in that category. Anyone applying to MIT, regardless of how strong their application is, is wise to have their “plan-B” school applications in top shape.
One of the MIT admissions blogs, http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways, is well suited for someone like you.
All the best.
Why is it I wouldn’t be accepted? Not enough ‘accomplishments’?
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When a school has an admit rate in the 6-8% range, it means there is no room to accept all the qualified applicants.
@bandgeek019 I think what @jpm50 means it that MIT won’t “definitely” accept you, not that MIT won’t accept you.
@ManaManaWegi that makes more sense haha, of course that’s a risk with any college application. If people were told they certainly wouldn’t get in simply because of the low acceptance rate, nobody would apply! 
^^ Ah. I see now how my wording may be unclear. Thank you ManaManaWegi for clarifying that.