My odds of getting into MIT??

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm wondering if I'm a likely candidate to enter MIT.</p>

<p>I scored a 2250 on my first SAT Reasoning test in June, and on the May test date I got an 800 in Math II and a 760 in Chemistry. My test results from my second reasoning test are coming back soon, but I'm not expecting an improvement. (EDIT: AP scores from last year were Physics-4, Calculus-5, English-5)</p>

<p>My class rank is surprisingly low, at approximately 38/410... but my grades have truly stood out during the last year and a quarter (My only B grades in HS have been for two years of spanish, and for HP PreCal in Sophomore year. I got Straight A's (AP English, AP Calculus AB, AP Physics) last (Junior) year for a 4.5 GPA. This year, I have 5 AP classes + 1 normal class, and have straight A's so far.</p>

<p>My extracurriculars are... quite outstanding I believe. I think it should truly show my passion for engineering that I spent months during the summer building a refrigeration-based coolant chiller for my PC, and that I have dealt with all types of exotic cooling (including liquid nitrogen) to tweak PC speeds, etc, to near world-record speeds. (EDIT: Youtube video of functioning chiller here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGjxXTJRB_M%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGjxXTJRB_M&lt;/a&gt;) My community service is minimal, with only about 10 of 20 required hours completed.</p>

<p>Please let me know my chances, and explain why :)</p>

<p>Thank you,
Eli</p>

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<p>It’s a definite reach. Your work with coolants is your major selling point here. Have you gotten much recognition for it? Scores and grades are pretty good; pretty standard for MIT.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help</p>

<p>No, I have not gotten much recognition for this. At least not yet… I will be submitting my latest results within a few weeks</p>

<p>Anyone else out there care to weigh in?</p>

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<p>have you heard about the Intel Science Fair? You should enter that as a science project!! It would make you stand out like crazy!!!</p>

<p>Decent SAT scores I think (I’m going MIT Early Action and my SATs are 2260 (2290 superscored) :smiley: so I’m not that much better off either). </p>

<p>I’m waiting for the Oct scores to come back as well :(</p>

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<p>Good scores, and thanks for pointing out the Intel Science Fair to me :)</p>

<p>I’m also doing MIT’s early action.</p>

<p>Good luck :)</p>

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<p>Do Intel with the coolers. Otherwise…</p>

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<p>INTEL Science Talent Search Competition isn’t something you can just do out of nowhere. It takes a year to research the bare aspects of your project and it takes 6 months to set up your project (or to work with your mentor) to collect data, finish INTEL essays and application. Anyway the deadline is Nov. 17. for INTEL. I’m almost finished with my project.</p>

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<p>Any more opinions to the original question? </p>

<p>Can I get in?</p>

<p>PS: Intel Science Fair is really too late for my Apps, I believe</p>

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<p>^ I just said that. Can’t read? lol</p>

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<p>you’re not cool andyboy23</p>

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<p>I think there are a lot of variables we don’t have. If you’re from MA, slim chance, from Alaska, chances go way up. Will your teachers write that you are truly brilliant and the top math/science student the school has seen in decades? That would help a lot. What did you do other summers? Are you low income with uneducated parents or from an area where you’ve done things few do?</p>

<p>It’s all about context. You don’t have top stats with MIT, but with a unique background, you have enough.</p>

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<p>UPDATE:</p>

<p>I got in Early action in December, just FYI =D</p>