Please chance for MIT (early action)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I applied MIT early action-</p>

<p>White, Male, Northeast top HS
GPA: 96.3 (out of 100, unweighted, top 1 or 2 percent out of 360)
SAT: 700 CR, 800 M, 800 W
SAT2: 760BioM, 800Chem, 800Phy, 800Math2
AP Exams: World Hist, US Hist, Eng Lit, Calc BC, Phy B (all 5s)
AP Courses Senior Year: Eng Lang, US Gov, Phy C, Bio, ComSci</p>

<p>ECs (in order of importance):</p>

<p>Science Research (very passionate about this) - part of selective summer research program (2009), molecular genetics project --> Siemens Semifinalist (slight hook??), Intel submission</p>

<p>Math Team - elected position, AIME qualifier, county awards</p>

<p>Debate Team - elected position, local awards, nothing huge</p>

<p>Charity Club - elected position, helps impoverished S. American communities</p>

<p>Intended Major: Biological Engineering (I love biology & physics)
Recs: GREAT!! I have supplementary from research mentor, and my HS teachers love me
Essays: Pretty good, maybe not unbelievable, but generally interesting
Interview (how much does this matter at MIT?): just ok</p>

<p>Please chance for MIT (and any other top engineering schools that I may have a shot at - I will apply to Princeton, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, Michigan, etc.)</p>

<p>Thanks - I will chance you back if you link it.</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>

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<p>Great scores/stats! </p>

<p>I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you got into MIT, but rest assured that there will be a lot of applicants like you in the pool. Hopefully your recs/essays will differentiate you from others with similar stats?</p>

<p>Good luck! I’ll be rooting for ya =]</p>

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<p>man u have a decent chance and since ur passionate about it i see no hurdle in your way in(im an international so im not that accurate)
chance back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/810352-chance-international-please.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/810352-chance-international-please.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>AIME’s pretty cool = D
Siemen’s is awesome too.
I’d say you have a good shot. btw what did you get on the AIME?</p>

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<p>Just gonna say this, don’t mean to be a downer, but i’d say there are low odds of you getting in.</p>

<p>MIT has gotten to the point where the good scores are EXPECTED, they won’t set you very far apart from the crowd. Your ECs aren’t stellar, I don’t know your hrs/wk involvement or any academic awards/honors, but from what you have listed here, the only thing you have are numbers.</p>

<p>You need more than numbers!!!</p>

<p>I would say you’ll get accepted/deferred, but probably not denied</p>

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<p>I got a 102.5 on AMC12 (just barely qualified) and a 1 on AIME.</p>

<p>I listed both of these scores because I was proud that I even qualified for the AIME and it would be weird to list that I qualified without listing the scores. I figured that listing a 1 for AIME could help more than it could hurt, so why not.</p>

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<p>I’d disagree with a lot of the above posters. I’d say your chances are pretty decent. Your numbers are solid, you’ve got research, you’ve got offices, and you’ve got at least some awards, even if they’re not big.</p>