<p>Hello.
My name is Jack and I'm going to be a junior in High School this year in the fall. MIT is my dream college and I've had this nagging desire to live out my college experience there for about a year now. As a sophomore this year, I took two APs and other honors courses. But I absolutely love math. This year I took Mathematics B (A New York State Regents course), which is like Trigonometry, essentially.. But I nearly aced the end of the year state exam with a 98, and was the highest in my school by over 12 points.. I think my main catch though is the fact that I'm an above-average baseball player. This year I played baseball on the varsity level, and excelled quite steadily. This year I've been told by different coaches and instructors I can go Division 1 for baseball, and MIT is Division 3... I think that right there would be a great help in getting through to MIT. Right now through 9th and 10th, I would guess my average would be somewhere around a 97 unweighted, which would be around 103 weighted with APs and Honors... So yeah that's basically me in a nutshell, but should give whoever reads this a glimpse of my chances.</p>
<p>Do / Can I have what it takes to become an MIT acceptee?</p>
<p>Just so you're aware, since MIT is division 3, they don't recruit in the division 1 sense for athletes. It's great that you play baseball so well, and the coaches at MIT would probably love to have you, but they don't have much pull in admissions -- athletic talent isn't worth more in MIT's application process than other kinds of talent.</p>
<p>You're certainly on track to be accepted at MIT, but so are many, many other students -- most students who apply are qualified at this basic level, so it's impossible to say whether you will or won't get in. </p>
<p>Keep doing things that you love and challenging yourself academically, and you'll be in a good place to apply to MIT in a few years. Make sure you find several other schools that you have a good chance to be admitted to, because MIT is a reach for everyone, and you want to make sure you're admitted to a school you love in the end.</p>
<p>If you want to learn more about MIT, you can check out the MIT forum here on College Confidential (here</a>). Several current students, recent alums, and parents post there, as well as MIT admissions officers occasionally.</p>
<p>Yeah, my sister this year is going to play basketball D3 in Maryland and her coach did play a role in the admissions I believed but I could be wrong...
But yeah, I'm going to keep striving to stay on a good path. Oh, and also I've been on the MIT baseball's team website (here</a>), and they have links for recruiting.. and that kind of contradicts what you said about them not helping, but idk..</p>
<p>And I'm really going to try and get into the Harvard SSD program for a hard math course or something..</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for your response, too!</p>
<p>Oh, and are there other EC's that are good for the application and/or math?!</p>
<p>Right, they call the process "recruiting", but the coaches don't have much sway in admissions. Anyone can sign up to be recruited at MIT -- you'll notice, though, that the recruiting form has more space for your academic achievements than for your athletic achievements. </p>
<p>Other D3 colleges may allow coaches a lot of pull in admissions, but MIT does not.</p>