So I got screwed over royally by my Business Essentials teacher because he gave me an 89 for the semester. I had a 95 first quarter and he wouldn’t let me make up work in the second quarter so my grade dipped. I’m applying as a Business Management major. How screwed am I on a scale of 9.9-10000?
HOWEVA, I am a recruited football player and I’m in the process of building my own business so that may help a little?
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If we asked your teacher for his or her version of the story, what would their answer be?
Why did you need to make up work? Why wasn’t it done in the first place?
MIT admits to the college and not to any specific department. The business course doesn’t carry any extra weight.
I missed the work because I had to make up a test in another class. It was a 2 day test. We were working on a project at the time and he put in zeroes for those daily grades and it dragged me down. @jpm50
It does not make a ton of sense to worry about one grade if you are trying to get into MIT.
What are you bringing to the school, what do you want to get out of MIT? You already filled in
those answers, so just try to find something, like your business, to work on. Whats your business plan?
Who are your clients or customers? What do you want to charge for your product or service?
Try to make some money, that might be something to worry about, not grades. If you are worrying about grades,
now, how will you react at MIT to various grades you may earn? Focus away from grades as much as possible.
@YeetBlue:
Coloradomama makes a good point. The adcoms will look at your academic profile to see if you can handle the work, and then will look on to the rest of your application to determine if you’re a match for the school.
Your reply about being screwed over by your teacher immediately raised huge red flags. Casting blame on others for your stumbles never works and usually hurts you. If you’re shirking responsibility for a make-up test challenge in high school, what will you do if you get to a school of MIT’s caliber where those challenges will be hitting you ten fold?
I never mentioned the situation on my application, even in the February Updates Form so all they know is that I have an 89 in that class, no backstory @jpm50
“I am a recruited football player”
How is that going to help you get into MIT, or is this thread posted in the wrong place?
The MIT coaches can prepare an admissions support file for a recruited athlete that is sent to admissions. Being an athlete is a hook for MIT and is considered during the process. @DadTwoGirls
@YeetBlue:
You may want to read through the numerous past “recruited athlete” threads on this MIT forum on CC.
If high school seniors knew what we, professionals know about college brand name, MIT would be a forgotten liberal arts college. College name brand is the most overrated and useless thing in the tech world.
This isn’t a question about my recruitment status. If it was, I would’ve mentioned it on one of those threads because I’m quite active there. It was just a question about how admissions would view it. @Coloradomama thank you for answering my question!
I don’t care about the rank, it’s a great school that is my last shot at continuing my football career. It’s not the school you go to, but what you do with your education that matters. Being able to play college football at any level is a blessing and I’m just hoping that it will come true. That’s why I’m so concerned @coolguy40
Have any other schools contacted you about a scholarship?
Only a few liberal arts schools like Milsaps and Rhodes, my main goal in playing football is getting a better education than I would otherwise. Obviously that is completely subjective for what education is “better”, but MIT is not ranked in the top 5 internationally because of its name. If this doesn’t work out, I will most likely be attending an honors college at a state school to focus on my education. I am really sociable so a large school is attractive to me, but MIT’s location in Boston (which is full of other schools) is just as appealing. I’d love to play football, but I don’t want to risk my college education and experience for it if that makes sense @coolguy40
That makes total sense. Sorry you got hosed like that! It would be a shame to give up football, you might as well go for the academic scholarship and see if you can make the team as a Big Ten walk-on player.
You are speaking my language right now @coolguy40 if I don’t get into MIT I will most likely attend South Carolina, Clemson, or Maryland (if I get in, decision comes in 2 hours!!) to walk on. Even if I get chewed up and spit out, there isn’t a value that can be put on that experience
MIT has a football team? So that’s cool to know…i thought the student body voted it out in 1900 …good know it made it way back! 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Engineers_football
Sounds like a good plan.