<p>In the meantime, how about some friendly discussion lol. How’d you guys get interested in engineering?</p>
<p>@Apdenoatis, MIT is one of those cool colleges that don’t ;). Most, however, do. </p>
<p>But MITES and MIT have separate admission processes I believe.</p>
<p>@AmaranthineD yeah, isn’t it that you need to be at the top of your class to make MITES unless you’re from a very competitive school?</p>
<p>The beauty of holistic review is it’s not a strict thing, they want to see how you’ve excelled within your own community. There isn’t a box that says “top 10 student in class” that you need to check or anything. Just hang tight for a couple months(easier said than done) XD</p>
<p>So how did <em>you</em> get into engineering? ;)</p>
<p>Hi! So I applied for MITES and I just realized I had a very egregious error in one of my essays (a question mark where a period should be) the whole sentence in itself had another error making it almost incoherent. I felt like my essays were very good otherwise.
I am in AP BC Calc and AP Physics C Electro and Mechanical ( They are combined to one class at my school) I was sick on the day I was supposed to take my Physics C quarter exam which dropped my grade to a C, it is recorded on my transcript that way and I was told it wouldn’t be fixed until the end of the quarter for some silly reason. Because of this my Cumulative GPA is 3.8 un and 4.4 weighted. Does this put me at THAT big of a disadvantage?</p>
<p>My SAT scores are average, 1980 and PSAT 198 (how weird right!?)
My major accolades being that I am President and Captain (Two different roles) of my FTC robotics team and I have been doing FRC for 3 years as well. Mixed in with that I have SNHS, National Forensic League, Key Club, and Academic Team. I won first place in SECME Math competition and I did this engineering thing at my local college for a week called NSF Engineering week and I had one a disaster recovery robot design award. I was also took Bioengineering elective courses my freshman and sophomore year as well as a Solar engineering Course.
I am also considered African American (I’m West Indie)</p>
<p>@NanoEngineer Did you explain the C anywhere on your application? That probably would have helped a lot and “saved” you. Either way, a 3.8 UW and 4.4 W GPA is still pretty high. </p>
<p>PSAT and SAT scores generally correlate quite well.
IMO you still have a pretty strong application. If that was the only mistake in your essays I think it’ll be alright.</p>
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<p>As for how I got interested in engineering… I think there are two main things. The first was when my friend, who I look up to, said a few years ago that he wanted to be an engineer. I think that was the first time I had actually thought about the word, and I thought, “Hey, that’s something I might want to do.” Prior to that I had wanted to be a paleontologist or a biologist or animator lol. I still love those subjects but anyway, that was how I was introduced to engineering. </p>
<p>The second thing - I had an amazing physics teacher my sophomore year, and she was the one who made me realize that engineering was really something I wanted to do. I ended up with a B in the class but I loved every bit of it. At some point, though, I had academic troubles in math and physics (aka getting straight Cs or low Bs on tests) and I needed to talk to someone about it. I found my physics teacher during lunch and without really thinking about it I just opened up to her. I told her I was worried that my performance might mean I couldn’t be an engineer. What was also discouraging was to see the same friend who, a few years earlier, told me he wanted to be an engineer go into medical school because he ended up not being great at calculus and physics. Like me, he was more of a bio person by brains, but I was really a engineering/compsci person by heart and I didn’t want to go the same path he did. The whole situation got to me so much I started crying lol.</p>
<p>She said instantly and pretty confidently, “I think you can do it.” I still had a solid B in the class, which she said was good, and she explained that for some reason, over all her years of teaching, it was much more difficult for sophomores to pick up the concepts than it was for juniors or seniors (since physics is more of an upperclassman course in my district.) She reiterated, “Yeah, I think you can do it.”</p>
<p>So yeah, here I am lol. </p>
<p>How about you, @AmaranthineD ?</p>
<p>I had a lot of trouble coming up with a good major because I was interested in so many things…I discovered I really liked building and creating, and at first I was meh at math but studying really hard for the SAT and SAT II was actually fun and helped me see the awesomeness of math XD. </p>
<p>It was E2 that sealed the deal though.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I didn’t even think to write a 6th essay 
What type of reoccurring themes did you see in the people who were selected?</p>
<p>XD Pretty much what they said on the brochure…
-Hispanic/african american/black (although not everybody)
-low income(pretty much everybody)
-first generation(pretty much everybody)
-really freaking smart and cool and hilarious (everybody)</p>
<p>The only thing I have in that list is that I’m Hispanic…Oh well. To whoever asked about how we got interested in engineering/science: At first I hated math and science. I was really good at them, but they were really boring to me. Math was one of those classes for me that i showed up in, slept, and did the minimum work required to get an A. I never really tried. Because of this, I never challenged myself in that subject, even though I could’ve done very well. Science was more interesting to me, but I hadn’t taken any science classes that really captured my attention. Then in sophomore year I took chemistry and I LOVED it. I still do. That’s when I decided that I wanted to pursue science. Now I am making sure that I challenge myself. chemistry is the class that really made me interested in the engineering/science field. </p>
<p>I am Asian a 11th grader at a residential high school in North Carolina, so I am kind of worried. I have a 3.875 UW GPA and 5.625 W GPA, and my PSAT is 220, SAT is 2250 (10 essay score if that matters), and I got a 34 on the ACT. I have an 800 SAT Math Lv 2 and 770 SAT Chinese w/ Listening
I play Varsity Tennis
I do Speech and Debate
I am part of the top 3 State Science Olympiad Teams
Treasurer of the Multi-cultural Fashion Club
Part of the Asian Cultures Club Publicity Committee
I do Enthalpy Breakdance (probably captain next year)
I have won the North Carolina Student Academy of Science Research Fair in the Math and Computer Science division for three years
I have 40+ hours of community service
I have made the AIME for two years, and scored honor roll level on the AMC 10/12
I participated in the American Junior Academy of Science Conference 2014, and NCSSM TEDx Conference 2014
I won in the Geometry Sprint for Charleston Math Meet and 3rd in the Relay round.
I have been the #1 in the American Math Challenge for North Carolina in the past two years, and place 7th and 13th in the US.</p>
<p>I am in Multivariable Calculus, Climate Change Bio (it is a 6.0), American Studies (sort of like APUSH and AP Eng II combined), Research in Computational Science (6.0), Readings in Chinese (AP Chinese V), and Physics with Adv. Topics (AP Physics B equivalent). Before I was in IB, and I exempted all the freshman classes to skip a grade, and I took Methods II, IB C&E, IB Eng II, IB Spanish III, IB Chem, IB Phys, APES, IB World History</p>
<p>I think my biggest worry is the fact that I am not an underrepresented minority.</p>
<p>You are really strong academically, but you are probably not the kind of student MITES is looking for, but you never know. Where else did you apply? Did you apply to RSI?</p>
<p>I did, but I got rejected :(</p>
<p>Does anyone know when results will be sent this year?</p>
<p>Early to mid april is what the website said</p>
<p>@antismathmatter Dang you’re really impressive. Props to you and your accomplishments. </p>
<p>@screamingpumpkin how did you fix your mistake??</p>
<p>Does anyone know the numbers of applicants versus the number of slots available at MITES?</p>
<p>The admissions rate is about 4% as of last year; I think like 2000 people applied and 80 get into MITES.
But if you count MOSTEC, admissions is 8%, since MOSTEC also takes abotu 80 kids.</p>