<p>This may sound stupid...but can someone please tell me what MITE2S is? :)</p>
<p>MITE2S is a six-week summer program whose official title is "Minority Introduction To Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Science"</p>
<p>It's website is viewable at <a href="http://mit.edu/mites/www%5B/url%5D">http://mit.edu/mites/www</a></p>
<p>MIT gives an official description as</p>
<p>"MITE2S (Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Science) is a rigorous six-week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested in studying and exploring careers in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship. This national program stresses the value and reward of pursuing advanced technical degrees and careers while developing the skills necessary to achieve success in science and engineering in an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse nation and world. MITE2S is rooted in MIT's belief in the importance to our nation that minorities and other underrepresented segments of the population pursue higher education and careers in these fields."</p>
<p>(and f.y.i, MITE2S is my dream summer program :))</p>
<p>thank you :) so this program i assume is only for people who are still going to be in high school</p>
<p>Yeah, its for high school juniors who will be seniors next year</p>
<p>thanks once again</p>
<p>Tip on MITE2S - take the app very seriously and pretend its an app for admission cause competition is fierce.</p>
<p>Did you apply for MITE2S? Or are you a graduate?</p>
<p>no, i applied to mite2s and undergraduate admission to mit. rejected from mite2s and accepted for undergraduate admission.</p>
<p>I was going to apply, but I found out about it quite late and I knew I didn't have the time to spend on the application I wanted. If you're a current hs sophomore, make sure you start it really early.</p>
<p>Good advice, celebrian, I definitely agree with you. If I had started my app earlier, especially those freaking essays, I might have gotten in.</p>
<p>Yep, I would start as SOON as the applications are released, that way you finnish them early, have time to review them, and change anything. You're giving yourself time that way to revise, which is especially crucial with the essays. 4 essays is no small task, let me tell you. You don't want your last essay to be lacking due to time restraints. Learn from the older generations mistakes</p>
<p>to hikki...</p>
<p>Congrats on getting accepted to MIT, are you a student there now?</p>
<p>and to both celebrian and hikki, what was so difficult about the essays? There were four but they were to be 300 words or less! The rest was just a two-page application, and the other parts (photos, scores, birth certificate, etc.) required a little bit of... scouring the house</p>
<p>for me, the hard part was getting my teachers to write the letters of evaluation on time :)... I literally was in my physics teachers class on friday as he printed it out, sealed it, and signed it :)</p>
<p>I did take the application seriously though, MITE2S is a program that I would really benefit from attending. I hope that come spring break (or actually the week after because I will be building a house in tijuana :):)) I get accepted! </p>
<p>How can I keep my parents from opening that deciding envelope...</p>
<p>in my opinion it's harder to write a shorter essay than a longer one. And I think the essay is one of the biggest proponents of the application, so you've got tons of people with plenty of similar stuff, those essays could set you apart</p>
<p>Yeah, shorter ones tend to make you think harder. Although my essays stank, my teacher rec's were what brought me down. I'm still a senior in high school dys2k6, but I will be at MIT this next fall. Good luck with your mite2s app, I hope you get to go in my stead. :)</p>
<p>i didn't get teacher recs, that's when I really thought...time crunch, let's think this through. I really don't think my math/science teachers would have anything awesome to say about me. I hope you get in as well.</p>
<p>thanks to the both of you...</p>
<p>and hikkifan if all things go well I'll see you at MIT in fall of 2006 :)</p>