<p>Gyros321: If you take a look at MIT's recent admissions statistics, or read even more recent articles in papers like the New York Times, you should definitely NOT be lamenting the fact that your school in WVa is less than stellar. Instead, be thankful. Places like MIT seem to be going out of their way to recruit students from high schools, and states, that traditionally send few, if any, students to top tier universities. Moreover, MIT has one of the smallest percentages of students from private schools. If anything, it may be harder for students from elite high schools (especially in states like California, NY, and Mass) to gain admission because they are competing with each other. Universities do, after all, want geographic diversity as well as all the other kinds of diversity.
I'm just another hs senior, like you, applying to MIT, so MIT bloggers may take exception to what I've written. If so, sorry. However, it is what I, and many of my friends, believe.
Anyhow, best of luck.</p>