<p>Yeah, I was #2 in a class of 375 with a better ACT/SAT than he has and played varsity football and baseball while holding down a job for 3 years during high school. I didn’t get into MIT either. I turned out just fine, I’d say.</p>
<p>It isn’t me being mean, it is me being realistic. His SAT score in math is not really anything special, which is what a lot of engineering programs look at. Maybe the rest of his transcript will make up for that at some of the really good schools, but MIT isn’t one of them, and the chances are only slightly better at UIUC/GT/etc as mentioned before. Could he get in there? Maybe. It depends on the strength of everything in his application. However, his test scores are still slightly low for the top engineering programs. For example, the middle 50% of engineers at UIUC got between 1920 and 2160 on their SAT.</p>