<p>IB Diploma candidate, 3.85 GPA out of 4.0 no weighting, SAT Math 800 Reading 770, Writing 670, Math II 790, Physics 760.</p>
<p>National Honor Society, Math Team (Team Lead Senior Year), Cello 10 years (orchestra, quartets, year round involvement), club and school soccer 10 years, youth ministry 4 years including two mission trips in the summer. Internship at City of Minneapolis office this past summer.</p>
<p>Male, white and native american.</p>
<p>Id say its a reach. Pending on your clas rank, you could use some work. While individually your EC's look good, the only real dedication is to the youth ministry and cello which is somehting you might wanna highlight in the essay. Your GPA holds up and nice work on the CR+M and SAT II's. Before you send in your application think long and hard, what makes you different from the other thousands of applicants for MIT</p>
<p>where did he say his class rank?</p>
<p>class rank is 12. Detail to ECs: formed a Physics Club junior year, travel for (successful) orchestra competitions to Chicago and NYC, Suzuki orchestra invited to Iceland to play for President of Iceland, downhill skier Freshman year, model government sophomore year, state champion club soccer in sophomore year, school competes in final for state soccer this week.</p>
<p>BTW, playing cello twelve hours per week and all IB classes takes up a lot of time.</p>
<p>your classrank looks fine. good luck!</p>
<p>oh, forgot number of students. 12 out of 400. 40% of school is IB, rest of school is not, so mostly non-IB ahead of me. city school in large midwestern metropolis.</p>
<p>Good luck. I think you have a very decent chance. There is no need to justify yourself to people who don't think you have a chance. Waste of time and energy.</p>
<p>You have a very good chance. No one can call MIT a "match", of course, but your Native American race, super SATs and GPA, and excellent extracurricular involvements...well...if MIT is what you want, apply early, and, I can't say "most likely"...I can't say that for anyone, but I think you understand what I'm saying here.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, I appreciate the encouragement. I'm applying early decision and so my ap is due next week. I think I'm ready! and will be glad to wrap up the application process.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if you are interested in engineering or not, but Dartmouth makes a serious effort to reach out to Native-Americans. My son's first year roomate was (I think) one-eighth Native-American with old SATs below 1200. Needless to say, he has struggled. But you wouldn't.</p>
<p>I did look at Dartmouth, but got a weird vibe from it, seemed like a hard drinking, way out in the boonies place. And our guide was an English major and said "fabulous" about 1,000 times (not fair I know). It was really pretty but I am hoping for a more urban/e environment.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>