<p>HI </p>
<p>I am an Koeran International student, studying in Vancouver
I recently got accepted to UIUC, Purdue, PSU, Iowa state with scholarship offer ,etc as aerospace Engineering major</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I did not get accepted to MIT or any other top engineering school like MIT</p>
<p>I always wanted to go to MIT ever since i was quite young, or i grew up to go to this school...</p>
<p>but, in reality
my brain is not as bright as others (ex. no awards from math contest or any other brillliant EC)
or simply, I did not try hard enough (though I doubt it)</p>
<p>If I were to go to MIT or become the top Engineer in the world</p>
<p>Which choice would give me a better chance of getting into MIT</p>
<p>go to UIUC (which is still a great engineering school) and try my best?
or
go to little lower level school like Iowa State with scholarship and get high GPA (not garanteed), then try tranfering </p>
<p>I know MIT or any other top engineering school's tranfer acceptance is very low, but i would like to give it a shot</p>
<p>Please Heeelp :(
I've been thinking about this for a month
but still can't figure it out :(</p>
<p>I think UIUC gives you your best shot. I knew a guy who transferred from there to MIT, so it's possible. It's still very unlikely to get in via transfer admissions even with a perfect GPA. Transfer admissions is significantly more selective than regular admissions. </p>
<p>It is more likely that if you are the top student or two in your major at UIUC that you could get into the masters program at MIT.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot collegealum314</p>
<p>can i have a little more advice people?</p>
<p>I agree with collegealum's advice.</p>
<p>some more advice:</p>
<p>1) Don't do anything you to help you in transfer admissions that you wouldn't do if you were planning to stay at UIUC (or Iowa St., etc.) for 4 years. Joining clubs and EC's won't help you in transfer admissions. Engineering activities & research might help for grad school if they are substantive, but it's a bad idea to start it too early (at least don't do it while you're doing classes.) The most successful people I know in engineering studied all the time their first two years of college. There will be a lot of smart people at U. of Illinois; a lot of brilliant people go there because they don't want to pay for HYPMS.</p>
<p>2) MIT offers a limited selection of classes in the summer. I would suggest taking differential equations (18.03) or linear algebra (18.06) this summer if you can. I know that they take people that aren't students for the summer session, but I don't know if you need an undergrad degree to do this. Anyway, inquire about this if this excites you. It might partly satiate your desire to study at MIT. Also, it will give you a little bit of a record too. Don't worry about the prerequisite for 18.02 (multi-variable calculus); neither diff. eqns. or linear algebra require multi-variable calculus.</p>
<p>3) Try research at UIUC or an engineering internship for the summer after your freshman year. </p>
<p>4) For the summer of your junior year, if you have nothing better to do (research you want to do at UIUC), you can apply for programs so that you can do research at MIT for the summer. I know a guy at University of Michigan that did research for the summer at MIT; the prof was impressed with him and told him he could attend for grad school. (He had a very high GPA (3.9/4.0) and I'm sure had high GRE scores.) </p>
<p>5) However, keep in mind that performance in class should be your primary priority. Don't try to do too much. Try to attain rock-solid fundamentals.</p>