<p>Are Psat scores require?</p>
<p>@AmaranthineD “Is it a science/math class? She should still apply! It is competitive for everyone!”
Her freshman year she got a C+ in geometry for one quarter sophmore year she got a C+ in physics for one or two quarters and this past quarter of her junior year she got a C+ in Honors English III (and all of these are very high C’s as in 77-79)</p>
<p>@workhard-
They will accept SAT, PSAT, ACT, or PLAN. I believe one of the four is required.</p>
<p>@poindexter-
That seems like a lot of Cs and admission is very competitive (70/2000+)~3% with most students having very good grades, so she may be at a disadvantage. However, she may be a great essay writer or have amazing activities/stories, so of course no one can predict the outcome. I encourage her to apply.</p>
<p>Thanks AmaranthineD 
now we just have to wait for the app. Ugh…</p>
<p>Haha! I know how that is. If you want to get thinking about what you could write about for the essays, here are the ones they asked last year(bear in mind they may be completely different this year).</p>
<ol>
<li> What are your career goals? How might attending MITES support these goals?</li>
<li>Which one of your extracurricular or volunteer activities is most important to you and why?</li>
<li>How has your racial or ethnic identity affected your academic development? How has it influenced your aspirations?</li>
<li>Please describe a personal, social, or academic challenge you have faced and overcome.</li>
<li>If you could invent, innovate, develop anything to change the world for the better, what would it be and why?</li>
<li>Please indicate if there are any special circumstances the selection committee should consider:</li>
</ol>
<p>For most of you, summer programs like MITES will be the first kind of serious letter of recommendations you need . So you can also start thinking about creating a resume with information about you/cover letter to give to your teachers(even ones that know you well). Or you could even just give them a heads up that you are applying and need recommendations! They may be busy with writing college ones for seniors so keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Wow thank you. Also, I’m pretty sure the answers will be the same this year cuz one MITES alumni from 2012 posted his essays abc they had the same questions</p>
<p>What was the average PSAT score for the people who got in? I’m pretty sure I did very poorly on it, like a 180 or possibly lower…</p>
<p>In the past, people have gotten into MITES/other programs with <em>very</em> low scores, the few people whose scores I know scored around the 1800s-1900s(a lot of them have gone up because that score was from a first try) some much higher and some much lower. MITES is much less strict about scores than most programs.</p>
<p>by “other programs” I meant E2/MOSTEC</p>
<p>At the bottom of this page, you can find the average MITES scores.
cweb.mit.edu/mites/Recruitment<em>%26</em>Selection.html</p>
<p>@AmaranthineD So then is admissions based heavily on whether or not an applicant has had numerous opportunities to pursue engineering/rigorous curricula in their area? In other words, are the MITES officers not really looking for students who <em>have</em> the opportunity but never took it because of lack of confidence or experience in engineering?</p>
<p>I’m the latter type of student, basically. I’m an Asian girl from a very competitive and presumably also very privileged school district; my grades are almost all As and Bs and I have leadership positions and I’ll have awesome recs, but I’m worried that I’m the “wrong” kind of student - my father is a programmer and my school has tons of advanced math/science/compsci classes, but I only very recently discovered (literally like a few months ago!) that I have some talent in and enjoy compsci and engineering, and I want to go to MITES for the academic rigor and the opportunity to explore the field. Is that the kind of student MITES is looking for, or not really? :/</p>
<p>Thanks so much in advance.</p>
<p>Apdenoatis-
You sound like me! I didn’t really know or decide on engineering until my junior year. While you aren’t exactly center in the targeted demographic, there’s no reason for you not to apply. </p>
<p>The website states <em>exactly</em> the kind of student MITES is looking for:
"All individuals who are selected must demonstrate bright promise of ability and interest in science, engineering and technology.</p>
<p>Additional factors that are considered for selection as plus factors (not entry requirements) include whether:
the individual would be the first in the family to attend college;
there is an absence in the individual’s family of science and engineering backgrounds;
the individual’s high school has historically sent less than 50% of its graduates to 4-year colleges;
the applicant attends a school that presents challenges for success at an urban elite university (e.g., rural or predominantly minority); and/or
the individual is a member of a group that is under-represented in the study and fields of science and engineering (African American, Latino or Native American).
Members of all races and ethnicities are considered. We look particularly for students who come from challenging backgrounds and those who must overcome significant odds to pursue their dreams of becoming an engineer or scientist."</p>
<p>Of course, you already knew that. But I just want to emphasize that my favorite thing about MITES(and MIT in a stretch) is they don’t automatically look and take the top 70-80 “best” students in terms of scores, grades, activities, and recs, but rather look for something unique about your story and character in your essays. At E2, we called it the “E2 spark” which we all had in common–we had all overcome some sort of large, affecting challenge, we all loved learning for the sake of it, and we truly were passionate about engineering/math. There’s something different when <em>everybody</em> in the program is a minority or has overcome a difficult challenge, from poverty to discrimination to lack of support from family. It was a solidarity that bound us together and makes MITES special and unique from the other supercompetitive, awesome programs out there. It was like we were members of a family that didn’t know each other until E2 gave us a chance to meet.</p>
<p>You didn’t discover engineering until very recently, but that’s not a disadvantage over people who’ve known since they were young. Write very, very honestly about your discovery of engineering if that’s something that’s a big part of you.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with coming from a good school, either. Most of my classmates came from decent-good STEM magnet schools. Several of em came from the #1 high school in their states, and there was one from the #1 high school(at least according to USNWR) in the country. What you have to do is convince them that they can provide something your school can’t!</p>
<p>What challenges have you overcome in your pursuit of STEM and how have they changed you and enabled you to continue in the future?
There isn’t really a way to fully experience the culture of the OEOP’s programs without participating, but everything I’ve said(and everything on the website) is designed to try and give you a picture of it. Show you can belong to and contribute to that culture and that’s the best you can do. </p>
<p>And I want to read essays and help as best I can so the next class of MITES/E2 is even better than this past one! (hard to believe 
but hey it may be possible)</p>
<p>Okay. Thank you so much - that’s really, really helpful! :)</p>
<p>Another question, sorry - does MITES accept SAT II scores?</p>
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<p>“SAT II Subject scores and AP test results are not reviewed.”</p>
<p>There is an official release date for the app! November 18th, a week from now.</p>
<p>Ah, okay. Thank you again!</p>
<p>HI! I am a junior and am hoping to apply to the MIT programs, and was wondering if you could answer some of my questions.</p>
<p>1) Is being active in FIRST FTC robotics a good thing for being considered?</p>
<p>2) What classes did you take while in the program? Can you tell me about your experience?</p>
<p>3) If I am half-hispanic (on my father’s side) can I apply as hispanic?</p>
<p>Thanks so so much!</p>
<p>Hello! Before reading any of your questions I tell you to definitely apply! You never know!</p>
<p>1.) Yes, because it shows interest in STEM. Some people claim that it’s bad because it shows you are more privileged, but there were definitely people at E2 and MITES who were huge FIRST/other Robotics people.</p>
<p>2.) You can read a LOT about the MITES curricula and programming on the website: [url=<a href=“MITES – MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science”>MITES – MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science]Curriculum[/url</a>]
[url=<a href=“MITES – MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science”>MITES – MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science]Courses[/url</a>]
and if some kids who were in MITES want to say anything haha.
E2 is basically the MITES project course, tours, and college counselling crammed into a week. The classes were Aero/Astro, Engineering Design, Underwater Robotics( mine <3), Architecture, Fluid Mechanics, and Electronics. We toured Google, Koch Institute, Cambridge Innovation Center, and maybe some other places that I can’t remember off the top of my head. We also heard a lot of people talk about their research, and met an hour and half per day in a small group with an MIT admissions counselor. 7+ hours a day in labs, homework. The program is LOTS of fun but so much work since it’s crammed into one week.</p>
<p>3.) Yes.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering, AmaranthineD, did you apply to MITES also in part because you would like to get into MIT?</p>