Academics
10th Grade Avg: 94% - All A’s or A+ on my transcript. Only A+ on science and math
12th Grade Avg: 96%
SAT: 1600
Math: 800
Physics:800
Chemistry:800
Will take the Physics Olympiad(2021), possibly the Chemistry Olympiad as well.
EC’s:
1.Rowing -
2.Basketball(School Team). I also played for a prestigious club in my city, which I captained. I placed first in 3 tournaments. Won MVP twice consecutively.
3.Trip to India to study local economies, occupations, and standard of living. Performed an in-depth study on water harvesting techniques and experienced first-hand difficulties of farmers.
Another trip to study sustainable living and enhancing those practices. Had multiple discussions and worked with senior members of an organization regarding the development of sustainable energy sources.
The last study trip focused on helping the underprivileged and empowerment. The goal was to help poor people and learn about the society we live in. Worked with agencies who help underprivileged citizens and helped them achieve some of their goals - eradicating hunger
An internship at an NGO to build a platform similar to Khan Academy focused toward local Indian Syllabi. Taught children how to use the platform as well.
Drama Camp and involvement in theater. Put up multiple plays about socially relevant causes as well as some famous plays. I was actively involved in the scripting and production of these plays.
Pursued MIT OCW on my own for fun. Completed 8.01,18.01 and a few more.
Code Club for 3 years. I can now code in Java, JavaScript, and Python.
Completed 6 research projects across physics and chemistry. I haven't published though I guess I could try.
Your “resumes” look amazing!
To be honest, I actually think you are either a genius, or not completely truthful. Sorry to be a bit suspicious.
Maybe my kid just slept too much and is not too smart ?
If you have done all these things as you stated here and have something to show in your application, I couldn’t imagine any school would not want you.
You appear to be well qualified and will certainly get serious consideration at MIT (or any college). However, MIT has a single digit acceptance rate and things we won’t see such as your essays, LORs will pay a part in the admission decision. IMO it is impossible to chance for any of these hyper-competitive colleges – they should be considered reaches for an unhooked applicant.
As I tell everyone, I recommend that you create a solid college list that includes reach, match, and safety schools that appear affordable (find out your parents’ budget and run the net price calculator for each school) and that you would be excited to attend.
It’s probably going to be in the details. Are you good enough in sports to get the attention of MIT coaches? What are your research projects about, how difficult are they, did you have a mentor who could write a good letter? What kind of trips where these, did you have to pay to do them, was there competition to participate, or did you just go with your parents to visit relatives who introduced you to some NGO people? Basically, besides grades and scores, are there other objective measures that show how awesome you are?
Yes, I feel I have a mentor who knows me quite well and has taught me physics through highschool. I have already discussed the issue with him and he is qualified and happy to write my recommendation letter. I have also taught multiple classes to other physics classes under his guidance.
No, the trip was through my school. Actually, my school is quite selective in itself. The acceptance rate is about 6.67% (the year I joined). There are (comparatively) few students in my grade. These NGOs choose to invite our school for these opportunities since they feel we are the right people. , I suspect we are one of the few schools and students that get the opportunity since these programs aren't "publicized" or open to the public.
With regard to sports, I am extremely passionate about it, but I don't know where I stand from the perspectives of MIT coaches. However, I put in the effort and try to get in about 6-7 hours of sports a week.
My projects have been across topics such as:
P-Block elements, Graphene and it's applications, Carbon and its allotropes. (Chemistry)
Thermodynamics, Gravitation (Physics)
I know a young man with a profile almost identical to yours. He was accepted to MIT RD. Deferred EA. Deferred from Michigan engineering EA too which stunned him and his family. It was a v-e-r-y long 4 months before he got his acceptances to those schools while many of his classmates were accepted early with far less stellar academic numbers.
I strongly suggest you apply to at least one sure thing school early along with MIT early if that’s what you have in mind. Just as a head’s up, Cal Tech and MIT give zero advantage to applying early. Most other schools do.
The young man was turned down by Penn (lost his legacy hook by not applying ED), which was another stun gun hit, as well as Harvard, Columbia and Princeton. He did get into Cornell and RPI which was his safety. He was going to take s gap year and try again if things did not pan out
So, yes, you are in the running. I personally think you have more than half a chance of getting into a top 20 school if you pick from bottom of that list as well as the top, but so also recommend strongly that you throw some more likely schools in there. Like CMU (not CS), Case Western , RPI, your flagship state school( get that app in early).
If you row well enough to be an athletic recruit, you’d almost certainly be in. Same if you could make the MIT basketball team.
I do not know how much MIT values completion of their OCW and your coding classes. Perhaps their CS department can tell you this and even eagerly advocate for you. A personal visit to them might be in order. See how excited they are with your list of accomplishments
Your physics teacher is a teacher at your school, right? Not some outside of school program? LORs from your school’s teacher and GC are what count heavily.