RD Chances

[zogoto]

<p>I plan on applying RD to MIT. What are my chances (1-10 scale, I guess)?</p>

<p>GPA 4.0 UW (no weighted GPA, since school only adds points for weighted classes, so that honors is still 5 rather than 4, but it's not averaged)
Rank: 1/713
SAT: 1550 Old SAT (800 M, 750V), 2290 New SAT (800M, 770CR, 720W)
SAT II: 800 Math IIC, 800 Writing (will this substitute my lower 720 score on the New SAT and make my composite a 2370 or not?), 800 Chemistry, 800 Physics</p>

<p>Awards:
Siemens Westinghouse Western Regional Finalist
Local Science Fair Grand Award Winner (and therefore ISEF finalist)</p>

<p>Highest AMC 12B score in my state (123.0)
6 on the AIME
Silver Winner (89 points) on USAMTS this year and bronze last year (76 points)
4th in State Math Contest (almost everyone takes this contest, it's legit)
Calc BC student of the year
Multivariable Calc/Diff Eq (Calc 3-4 at my school) student of the year
[Note: both of these 'student of the year' awards may sound kinda stupid or trivial but they are a fairly big deal and competitive at my school]
EDIT: I have also won 1st at two local math competitions, which each had about 13 schools participating from my side of the city I live in.</p>

<p>ECs:
Black Belt Karate (7 or 8 years of it, not sure)
Math club (4 years)
Chess club (4 years), President Junior year
Speech and Debate (2 years), cofounded in Junior year, VP Junior and Senior year
Spanish Honor Society (3 years), VP Junior year, President Senior year
Gifted Students Organization (4 years), VP Junior year
NHS (2 years), VP Junior year
Founded Research Science Club (1 year), President Senior year
Attended HOBY Leadership Seminar
Participant in local leadership building program that takes place over 1 semester
Held two internships- One with a biochem professor (made my Siemens project here), one with industrial engineering grad student (made my ISEF project here).
110 (or so) hours volunteering at a local hospital (I haven't gone consistently in almost a year or so due to the above-mentioned internships)</p>

<p>Etc.
By the end of Sr. year, will have taken 4 university classes (Mathematical Structures, Number Theory, Linear Algebra, and Abstract Algebra), all of which, besides Linear Algebra, are Junior, Senior, or Graduate level. I have already taken the first two with an A+, and A, respectively.
Good/Great Recs
Good essays</p>

[cres]

<p>Unless MIT has a lack of space you will be getting in!
From the experiences me and my fellows have had over the last year,
Predicting for any particular school will be kind of absurd!!
But rest assured that you will make it to one of the best schools in your intended field of study, any place that matches your personality and that will be offering the best for your future!</p>

<p>Keep exploring the MIT site and for the time-being keep narrowing your views on the path you are going to take for your future, and how 'exactly' will MIT be helpful for you in achieving your goals, this is the best you can do to show your interest apart from the remarkable work you have already done, leave the rest for the admission committee to decide!</p>

<p>Remain committed, don't take too much stress regarding the admissions process so early, be patient and continue your effort! </p>

<p>Best of Luck!</p>

[portlander]

<p>Predicting admission to college is absurd, but it looks like you have a more than decent shot with your great stats and ECs...! :) Good luck!</p>

[goddess32585]

<p>i'm full of insane today: anyone want to code up a college admission's magic 8-ball, where you can copy and paste in a person's stats, fill in the school they're asking about, and then it serves up an appropriately inaccurate and amusing "decision"? actually, for something that simple, a meme-gen site would probably work fine....<em>scampers off to make havoc</em></p>

<p>in my thoroughly unprofessional opinion, which i'll toss only to disguise my thread-hijacking, i'd say your app looks nicely impressive. props for the college courses, especially.</p>