<p>@wyomingoh I’m pretty sure MITES doesn’t want lazy people even if they are naturally gifted, but who knows you could still get in.</p>
<p>@wyomingoh I think mites is also looking to pick a unique group of people. So in that aspect I think you have a good chance. If you had exceptional essays and extra curriculars that can only help.</p>
<p>@wyomingoh you also want to be wary of the lazy genius syndrome top tier schools don’t usually like that</p>
<p>Hello, random comment
Do you guys believe that fitting into the MITES requirements can outweigh some butchered essays?
My essays were subpar but I meet many of the stats: Hispanic (Chicano), low income, high GPA/rank, decent PSAT (213), first generation, and neither parent made it past middle school.
Essays > = < Stats?
I know they should complement each other but I feel like my essays and stats are on different levels.
Thanks for your time fellow MITES applicants.</p>
<p>@Browndino,
When it comes to colleges and programs, fitting their demographics can often help make up for essays. I’m sure they weren’t as bad as you think, unless you wrote about murdering puppies and doing drugs.</p>
<p>Hey guys! I also applied to MITES this year! Just wondering if it’s too late to join this forum :/</p>
<p>And uhh since others are putting their stats up, do you mind if I put mine up??</p>
<p>GPA
4.0 unweighted
4.49 weighted</p>
<p>Activities
Girls Cross Country
Environmental Club
Science Olympiad
And 3 others I can’t remember…</p>
<p>PSaT185 (October junior year)
PLAN 27 (April sophomore year)
Yeah my standardized tests suck</p>
<p>I thought my essays were pretty good. I think I screwed up the 1st one but the other 5 were pretty good. I think I let me be myself. And for the 6th essay I talked about how both of my parents escaped from Communist Vietnam in order to get to America for a new life. And I talked about they opened a small family Resturant in order to support us how we lived behind the Resturant with only one bathroom, one bedroom, and one kitchen and one living room.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor and science teacher really like me so I hope those recommendations were good. My math teacher has favorites in her class so that recommendation might not be strong.</p>
<p>As you can see my standardized tests might not be strong but I think my gpa and classes are strong. I take as many ap as I can. I really work hard. If I dont understand something I work at it and only ask for help if I’m truly dumbfounded. Now all I can do is hope for the best! If you guys can comment on anything it would be great! </p>
<p>I only wished I found this forum when I was applying to MITES!</p>
<p>Oh yeah I forgot to mention that I’m Chinese. Yeah, kinda weird that parents were born in Vietnam, but long story short my family is all 100% Chinese blood. </p>
<p>Sorry guys for putting up more posts… Please forgive me but I forgot to mention that in the application that I started a mentor ship program at my school where a junior or senior partners up with a freshman or 8th grader for life to help them through high school. </p>
<p>Any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks! ^_^</p>
<p>i am asian male and not low income or first gen; might i have any chance at all.the reason i am asking is because everyone is talking about all these factors and i do not fit into those </p>
<p>@windo1 </p>
<p>Of course you have a chance! It’s just that those kinds of backgrounds is what mites is looking for. To give a chance to those who don’t have the opportunity too. I think it’s on the website somewhere
<a href=“MITES – MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science”>MITES – MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science;
<p>@wyomingoh from what I’ve read, MITES is more concerned about your ranking relative to your own school rather than how you compare academically to other applicants unless you come from a highly competitive district. It’s a very different kind of program with a unique kind of selectivity; MITES is looking for people who could best <em>use</em> the program, not people with the best credentials necessarily. There are many minority students who rank number 1 or 2 in their schools with maybe 1800 to 2000 on their SAT who make MITES; that’s pretty much the generic MITES student, or at least my impression is so.</p>
<p>@luckystar888 you can edit your posts for I think 10 minutes (or 1 hour, I forgot) after you post them, so in the future you don’t always have to add extra posts lol.
As for your question about your chances, I say the same to you as I did to wyomingoh. </p>
<p>In the end so many more people apply for the program than can be accepted that it’s even more of a crapshoot than applying for an Ivy League (which is already a huge crapshoot.)</p>
<p>@emywemy610 I applied to MITES from Cypress.</p>
<p>As for the rest of you guys waiting in agony, have low expectations and high hopes. MITES is one of those programs where the miracle of the normal person with very little stuff and a meh class ranking getting in over someone with a bunch of science activities in the top 2% does happen (it happened last year at my school). Besides, many more people get into MIT than do MITES and I’m sure that’s what most of you are concerned with anyway.</p>
<p>Oh hey guys, I also wanted to ask if anyone applied to SAMS here???</p>
<p>@luckystar888 I applied to SAMS!! Did you?</p>
<p>@engineering2015</p>
<p>YAY!! I applied! Well I just have to send in my app tomorrow. But my #1 choice is MITES. SAMS is my backup plan. But yay! I will know people! ^_^</p>
<p>And I like your username haha</p>
<p>And guys, after reading all the previous comments on this forum, I feel so sad about my application. I wish I knew all this stuff while writing my essays! :’"(((((((</p>
<p>@Apdenoatis
thanks for the tip! :)</p>
<p>@engineering2015 </p>
<p>oh and do you mind if I saw your activities resume for SAMS? or if i send it to you? This is my first time writing an activites resume, and I’m not sure how its supposed to look.</p>
<p>I applied for a scholarship for AP/EA since I’m entirely overqualified for SAMS. </p>
<p>@luckystar888 I already submitted my resume; PM me if you’d like to see it. At least my counselor didn’t have enough of a problem with it to tell me to change it, so I suppose it’s passable.</p>
<p>I want results xD</p>
<p>Me too! Just another couple of weeks of anticipation </p>