<p>Question to all of the past MITES attendees: I hear that you have a ton of fun, and while I love all of the academic parts of MITES, what did you do for fun other than the school component. </p>
<p>I’m going to apply regardless, but I’m just afraid I’ll get burnt out going from 11th grade to a really intense academic program to senior year if the only fun part of MITES is the learning aspect. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE all of the things I would learn at MITES if I were to get in, but too much of a good thing isn’t good either.</p>
<p>omnipotentiwish: I have the same problem with my math SAT not being on par with my actual math abilities. (Come on, a 67 on the math PSAT but a 103% class average in calc BC?) Hopefully they don’t count us off for it!</p>
<p>Hey guys, should I submit all my test scores? I have a pretty bad psat, but my sat that i took in the fall and my plan from last year are pretty good. Thoughts?</p>
<p>coffeeandtea- I feel like your username is so appropriate for MITES- that’s what we had at the wee hours of 4:15 whilst working on a physics problem set But anyways, okay, MITES-- THE WHOLE THING-- really was the summer of a lifetime. YES, you work really hard but if you are in it to have a fun time and be happy and look in the plus side of any avalanche of work, it is wonderful. So fun-wise, the day right after midterms we went to Martha’s Vineyard. That was one of the highlights of MITES. You get to spend about nine hours in the Vineyard with some awesome friends (by week three everyone has become your family) relaxing and literally “getting away.” It is absolutely perfect. Aside from that, on 4thof July we had a bbq which was really fun and we bonded with the WTP girls and it was great-- great food, games, dancing everything On Friday nights you were basically allowed to do whatever you chose so two of the days we went to Harvard Square (eating and shopping), a cluster dinner (which was great in the Cambridge Galleria), and the Harry Potter movie on the night that it came out! On Saturday nights we usually had some activity like the Vineyard and a dinner cruise and otherwise we organized midnight soccer games, we would have foosball tournaments, watch movies together. I mean it’s pretty hard to express it but really, I thought that I was going to be super shorted out after junior year (I had a really tough one, too) but it was just perfect. Also every Wednesday night we had MANDATORY fun from 10-11 and we went to the first floor (common space), we got some tasty food (brazilian food, pizza, chinese food, chicken & waffles etc.) and cake to celebrate birthdays! And seriously, even when we were in class, office hours, pset sessions or anything like that, we were laughing and enjoying the fact that MITES is so awesome. Do not hesitate applying. It’s as great as a summer can be. Oh and we also went on a Boston scavenger hunt And seriously, MITES is a lot more than book work. You seriously will so much about yourself oh and family meetings on Sundays= <3. I can’t even express this in words.</p>
<p>shinee9- About 1500 applied for 80 MITES spots (~6% acceptance) but they took 60 students to participate in this program called E2 (week-long residential still at MIT) and about 60 more (something like that) into an online seminar called MOSTEC. These are all, I believe, through the OEOP.</p>
<p>coffeeandtea- I put unweighted but they’ll see both with your official transcript!</p>
<p>emekablue- I would send in all your stats! There were people who had low psats and then there were people who had near perfects and a low in between! Don’t worry about your scores, simply send them!</p>
<p>Do we have to submit our ACT/SAT/PLAN/PSAT scores “officially,” as in through CollegeBoard/ACT Inc.? Or would it suffice to list them on our application?</p>
<p>For courses taken, do I leave Trigonometry blank even though it was covered in my Precalculus class but have never taken an actual course called “Trigonometry”.</p>
<p>Ditto to that- plus, my school does all gpas on a 4.0 scale but adds 10 pts to ap classes-so like, even if I get a 97 in ap whatever it still goes in as a 4 (final grade 107)- does that count as weighted?</p>
<p>Kingdomhearts and omnipotentiwish- I was not in the same situation as either one of you and I don’t want to give you inaccurate info so I would either email the OEOP or call after the 3rd!</p>
<p>I would anticipate that if your precalculus class covered trigonometric functions, trigonometric identities, right angle trigonometry, complex numbers, conic sections, binomial theorem, induction, then I could see no reason why it wouldn’t be accepted as a trigonomtry “class.”</p>
<p>What do you guys think of the word limit on the essays? Is going over a little bit okay? Or should I stick strictly to the 300 word limit… For the problem that I’ve overcome, there’s a lot of background info to it so it’s kinda hard to explain in just 300 words.</p>
<p>So I was finishing my essay on my future plans when I thought " will writing about an interest in computer and neuroscience hurt my app seeing as this is an engineering program?"</p>
<p>The ACT scores were all over the place… Now that I actually think about it, at the time of applying there were people who applied (and were accepted) with 23s bu lt there were also 36s. MITES is a lot more than just statistics so don’t stress! </p>
<p>Oh and I would stick to the 300 word limit!</p>
But anyways, okay, MITES-- THE WHOLE THING-- really was the summer of a lifetime. YES, you work really hard but if you are in it to have a fun time and be happy and look in the plus side of any avalanche of work, it is wonderful. So fun-wise, the day right after midterms we went to Martha’s Vineyard. That was one of the highlights of MITES. You get to spend about nine hours in the Vineyard with some awesome friends (by week three everyone has become your family) relaxing and literally “getting away.” It is absolutely perfect. Aside from that, on 4thof July we had a bbq which was really fun and we bonded with the WTP girls and it was great-- great food, games, dancing everything 
And seriously, MITES is a lot more than book work. You seriously will so much about yourself oh and family meetings on Sundays= <3. I can’t even express this in words.</p>