<p>does MIT like to see a major improvment in grades..like from a ~3.4 weighted to like a 4.7 weighted? does the high second semester gpa offset the low first semester one especially if im taking like 4 weighted classes? and do they average the gpa of all four years of high school or do they just look at them separately..</p>
<p>MIT is not as number-conscious as that to look at the GPA ten different ways. First of all, everybody’s weighted GPA should increase because most of the time advanced classes are weighted and people tend to take more of them as upper classmen.</p>
<p>Typically, junior year and first semester senior year are the most important years. For one, if you do well that year, it can allay any concern about less advanced classes. For instance, an “A” in AP chemistry will offset a “B” in sophomore chemistry somewhat. However, performance in your classes do matter. Speaking as an MIT alum and not as an admissions officer, doing well all 4 years indicates to me that a person has a strong passion for learning, instead of someone that decides junior year that they need to buckle down to get into college. Probably no admissions officer would ever say that, though.</p>
<p>Oh…but will straight A’s in the second semster with 4 weighted classes offset 5 B’s and a C in the first semster, especially if i maintain those A’s throughout the first semester of my senior year?</p>
<p>Can you get into MIT if you have like a 3.2 gpa junior year and a 4.0 senior year?</p>
<p>It is possible, yes. MIT considers applications holistically, so GPA is evaluated in the context of courses taken, the rigor of the high school, and other circumstances in an applicant’s life.</p>
<p>However, most admits to MIT do have extremely high grades throughout high school.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone…appreciate the replies.</p>
<p>Does taking tennis lessons count as extracirriculars…i mean if you’ve been doing it for like two years or so? If not…then how do you show colleges that you have ec’s?</p>
<p>^ Yes, tennis lessons can be an extracurricular.</p>
<p>Pretty much anything you do outside of school can be extracurricular.</p>
<p>I listed cooking and brewing beer, for instance.</p>
<p>You brew beer as (I’m assuming) a minor? In the U.S.? (Again, assuming…)</p>
<p>I’m not a minor ;)</p>
<p>Do tell, if that’s all right with you.</p>
<p>Well… I’m 21 and I brew beer with some friends of mine. We tried mead (like wine… but with honey) in August. It worked out great, except I spilled one of the giant tubs of honey in my car. That was horrible.</p>
<p>It’s a convertible (I regret buying it every day), and I didn’t really want to close the top. Half an hour later, it was filled with bees. A few hours later, the car was more or less clean.</p>
<p>Mostly I stick to brewing ales now.</p>
<p>“Half an hour later, it was filled with bees.”</p>
<p>that’s the point where I would have run screaming into the nearest building and refused to emerge.</p>
<p>I’m so with you, Inkling hahah</p>
<p>Cgarcia, gap years or are you applying as a transfer? If you don’t mind my nosiness :)</p>
<p>You know, up until this point I’d never really learned if bees eat honey.</p>
<p>Yeah. I have a few gap years.</p>
<p>As for the bees, I think they collected it for their hive. I’m not sure of that though - honey may be hive specific due to the pheromones secreted by the queen. Considering how attracted to it they were, I figure any old honey will do for feeding their ravenous young.</p>
<p>I’m not really up on my bee biology.</p>