<p>Hey guys...
My goal is MIT. I'm an Indian female living in Boston, MA. Please read my stats and give me your input. I'm going into my junior year so I haven't taken the SAT or SAT II's yet. But I have the rest of my stats. </p>
<p>~ ECs Violin, Math Team, Literary Magazine, Newspaper, Culture Club, Book Club, Science Team
~ Leadership Math Team captain, Lit Mag editor, Newspaper editor, Book Club president, Culture president, Violin treasurer, section leader and librarian
~ Math/Chemistry tutoring - I registered my own company for tutoring so it makes me look as if I'm the managing director of it and I make a few thousands of dollars each year
~ Spanish Exchange Trip
~ Skipping Spanish - first one to do that in my school
~ Fundraising for sick people - very successful
~ Community Service - about 700 hours so far - sitll have 2 more years to go
~ Course load - the only one in my school's history to take 9 AP's in 2 years
~ Rank - 1 so far and I'm almost positive that I'll be the valedactorian..if not definitely in the top 3
~ Don't know my GPA yet but I get straight A's and A+'s
~ I've issued some patents (shows scientific creativity?)
~ Research internship on DNA at Brigham and Women's
~ I took Indian singing lessons for many years and recorded a tape and sent it to a famous music director in India and he gave me an excellent recommendation for it
~ Art portfolio
~ Painted sets in school plays</p>
<p>These are it so far. I might have more considering that I have one more year to go. I'm sure I'll get excellent teacher and counselor recommendations. I think I'll do decent in the essay because I already started writing it. I think I'll do fine in the interview as well. The only thing I'm concerned about is my SAT and SAT IIs. I've only taken the practice tests so far and I do great in the math and writing sections but not so great in the reading comprehension. Any tips?? But I'm hoping to get somewhere between 2250 and 2400. I'm also planning to take Biology, Chemistry, Math IIC and Spanish for Sat II's. I'm not too worried about these. So do you guys think I'll get in? What else can I do to improve my chances? Going to MIT is my dream and I want to do everything in my capacity to improve my chances of acceptance. Please take the time to read this and give me your input.</p>
<p>oh yeah and I will also be the concertmaster in 12th grade for the high school orchestra and symphony orchestra</p>
<p>didn't u already post?</p>
<p>yeah but not a lot of people helped except for you and one other person</p>
<p>your indian status will not give you the URM advantage, for the percentage of indians at all top colleges is much greater than that of the american population. you are in fact an ORM.</p>
<p>You will get in! Good luck. But, it is hard to tell without your SAT scores. Anyway, good luck.</p>
<p>I encourage you to spend most of junior year concerned with just excelling in school and your activities. You don't really need to get college crazy until the end of 11th grade. I say this because, assuming you are taking a lot of ap or honors class, junior year is the most brutal mentally and physically (I got like 20 hours of sleep every week). Take it slow with the college business because unless you are outstanding in 11th grade, colleges won't really care about what you've done up to now. You seem like you'll be competitive, but don't put yourself in a position where you spend all year focused on college to the point when it comes time for you to get serious, you're too burned out to care. I speak from experience, be careful-MIT is a lofty goal.</p>
<p>If you do it'll definitely be over me. Let me ask this, which is very much like an essay question, but you can keep it minimalistic if you want: What kind of things have you overcome in your life?</p>
<p>I ask because it's one of the major plays I'm planning to make. For example, I come from a low-income family (I won't say how low, but think way down there), my school is academically unacceptable, as it's been for a few consecutive years, and the best status it's ever recieved is "acceptable", half of the students don't graduate, which means something like 15% go on to pursue higher education, 90% of which do it through community colleges, and a whole bunch of other negative things. I can't help but feel that modesty is completely lost in me, because surely there are people worse off than I, but those are all facts. Also, I'm a hispanic, and my aforementioned school is about 98% hispanic, with 99% being deemed "low income." </p>
<p>I have "stats" comparable to yours, with the exception of quantity of EC's and volunteer work. I have few, though quality, EC's.</p>
<p>yo, pirt8528, why r u giving the same comments to every indian person? we know that we dominate the world and are ORMs. lol jk :)</p>