MIT Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Round: Early Action
Region of the Country: Florida
Gender: Female
Race: White
Citizenship: United States

Father: Doctor (Highest Degree is an MD)
Mother: Homemaker (Never finished College)

SAT: 770 CR 800 M 730 W
ACT: 35 Composite - 35 E, 34 M, 36 R, 36 S, 31 E+W
Subject Tests: 800 M, 770 BIO E

Class Rank: 2 out of 453
GPA: 4.00 UW 4.608 W

ECs:

  1. National Honor Society - Treasurer. Tutor 3 times a week. 11, 12
  2. Mu Alpha Theta - Vice President. Help run the club. 10, 11, 12
  3. Science Olympiad - President. Run the club - organize travel to competitions, fund raising, member recruitment, competition assignments, etc. 11, 12
  4. Quiz Bowl - Varsity Member 10, 11, 12
  5. Elementary School Volunteering - 10

Awards:

  1. National Merit Semifinalist
  2. 2nd In Regional Chemistry Competion
  3. 1st in a 28 Team Quiz Bowl Tournament
  4. 4th in a 20 Team Quiz Bowl Tournament
  5. 4th in a Precalculus Mu Alpha Theta Team Competition

Schedule Over Time:

Freshman Year:

  1. Algebra 2 Honors
  2. English 1 Honors
  3. AP Environmental Science (4 on Exam)
  4. AP Human Geography (5 on Exam)
  5. Journalism 1
  6. Introduction to Technology
  7. PE

Sophomore Year:

  1. Precalc BC
  2. English 2 Honors
  3. Chemistry Honors
  4. AP World History (5 on Exam)
  5. Newspaper (Honors Weighting)
  6. AP Psychology (5 on Exam)
  7. Spanish 1

Junior Year:

  1. AP Calculus BC (5 on Exam, 5 on AB Subscore)
  2. AP Language and Composition (3 on Exam)
  3. AP Chemistry (4 on Exam)
  4. AP Physics 1 (3 on Exam)
  5. AP United States History (5 on Exam)
  6. AP Macroeconomics (5 on Exam)
  7. AP United States Government and Politics (5 on Exam)
  8. Spanish 2

(Both of 6 and 7 were semester classes normally taken by seniors at my school)

Summer Before Senior Year:

  1. AP Microeconomics

Senior Year:

  1. AP Statistics
  2. AP Literature and Composition
  3. AP Biology
  4. AP Physics 2
  5. AP Computer Science A
  6. AP Art History
  7. Newspaper (Honors Weighting)

All A’s so far.

Essays:
Fun: Not my best. Maybe 2 out of 5? Playing board games with family.
Department: 3 out of 5. Talked about wanting to go into Course 6.
Community: 5 out of 5. Neat Rhetoric Styled things. Talked about making a difference through the people I tutor.
World: Talked about being transgender and how it took me years to realize I was suffering gender dysphoria. 4 out of 5.
Challenge: Not being on the Quiz Bowl team until 10th grade after doing it in Middle School.

Chance me?

2

You are definitely qualified! With MIT it’s anyone’s guess, but you are definitely academically competive. Your ECs are primarily only academic, however, which may hurt you in the long run.

3

Bump

4

MIT- low reach

5

^ agree!

6

Grades and test scores are good, so I think a lot of it will come from your essays, letters of recommendation, and interview. Long shot, but I think you have a chance. Remember to apply to some safety schools.

7

STEM female

MIT: Reach

8

It depends on your major. If it’s engineering or some math field I would say little chance because of a 3 on your physics AP. Your classmates will by us physics olympiads finalist and there would be a question of whether you could handle the course load. Maybe there was a good excuse for the 3 on Physics I AP and 4 Chem AP and you explained it on your application? If you are going for a less math intensive major you have a good chance with your awesome test scores, grades, EC plus a female from Florida. Good luck!

9

You look as good as any committed student seeking admittance to MIT, observeraffect. MIT will train you if they take you, and they have taken kids across the spectrum of mastery of work at the high school level. You will work r e a l l y hard there if you get in, as I imagine you know.

Good Lord, how many APs did you take?
What about something outside of your math-minded work? Were you able to speak of other parts of yourself in your essays? (Love the family game stuff, I have to say.)