<p>Hey guys, I want some advice on if I can possibly get accepted into my dream school with these stats. I'm a Sophomore right now, and next year I will be attending SCGSSM, which is the most elite and selective high school in my state. </p>
<p>SAT (my first time, I can do alot better) - 620 Reading
700 Math
580 Writing</p>
<p>Freshman year classes:
H Geometry-100
H Alg. 2- 98
H World History- 98
H World Geography- 99
H Eng II- 93
Comp Sci- 100
H Phys Sci- 98
Phys Ed- 100</p>
<p>Sophmore year classes:
H Biology- 94
H Pre-Calculus- 96
H English III- 94
Spanish 1- 100
Spanish 2- 98
Public Speaking- 98
Government and Economics- 98
Art- 96</p>
<p>Schedule for Junior year:
AP Calculus BC I, II, II
AP US History
AP Calculus Based Physics I, II
Honors Spanish 3
AP Biology I, II
Honors Chemistry
Life and Leasure (Required Health Equivalent)
Jr. English (H Eng 4 Equivalent)</p>
<p>Planned schedule for Senior year (prone to change):
Sr. English (AP Eng Equivalent)
AP Chem I, II
H Organic Chemistry
AP Environmental Science
H Spanish IV
H Multivariate Calculus
H Discrete Structures
AP Statistics
AP Applied Statistics
AP European History I, II</p>
<p>I can’t tell you your chances, although they seem quite good. But one thing I can tell you is that you are a little bit crazy (in my eyes… at least) for wanting to take what looks like 11 separate classes your senior year? Your hand will fall off</p>
<p>Haha well see we are required to take 8 classes each semester, and my Junior year, all my classes are year long, but my Senior year, some are just semester classes. But it evens out so I have 8 each semester. Thank you!</p>
<p>So this is like, my first time in this part of CC, but wow… it is absolutely NOT true that you need a 2250+ for MIT. I personally did not have scores that high when I applied, and I know many people here that did not have above a 2000, including internationals and guys. If you look at the statistics for admissions, you need at least a 650 in math and a 600 in cr to be competitive, and the admissions officers say again and again that if you have at least a 700, then that’s more than enough.</p>
<p>You can’t judge very well from the CC MIT RD thread. Kids here are far more focused on SATs than many. I’m not at MIT, but I have a lot of connections to it and have known MIT faculty and students for about two decades. Solid SATs are important, but not the key factor.</p>
<p>We can also look at actual statistics - [MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml). If your CR score is between 600 and 640, then you have an 8% chance of admissions, and if your math score is between 650 and 690 then you have a 7% chance, which are pretty close to the overall rate of 11%, even if you think that maybe those percentages are so high because of affirmative action. And the admissions officers even say that a 700 for each section is more than enough, which only translates to a 2100. I’m not sure why we shouldn’t believe them.</p>
<p>What I meant, silverturtle, is that folks on CC seem to give a great deal of weight to extremely high SAT 1 scores - more than the smart to very smart people I know in other contexts (high school kids, college kids, graduates of excellent schools, and adults in general, including admissions officers, college professors and high school admissions counselors). My impression is that a considerable number of the posters here (particularly the frequent posters) spend a lot of time and energy working on optimizing SAT scores and are convinced that high SATs are very heavily weighted.
I therefore speculate (and , of course, this is speculation since I haven’t the data for anything like a reasonably stat. analysis) that kids here may tend to have high SAT scores relative to their other merits. Therefore, they are likely to be a less than perfectly representative sampling in terms of admissions data.</p>
<p>But if that were the case, wouldn’t it make the CC acceptance rate for high scorers lower because they are otherwise less qualified? You seem to be suggesting the exact opposite.</p>