<p>i plan on going two years at my cc because i save money. What do i need to do to have a successful chance in transferring here?</p>
<p>MIT accepts very few transfers - some years, they accept none at all. </p>
<p>But basically, they’ll be looking for the same things they look for in high school applicants. Academic excellence, doing something above what you need to.</p>
<p>Also from what my son has told me (correct me if I’m wrong Piper or Mollie), you can only transfer to MIT as a sophomore? So even if you did two years at a community college, you’d still have to pay for 3 more at MIT. And keep in mind very few credits from a standard community college would probably transfer directly.</p>
<p>A big part of the MIT experience is all the opportunities that the school offers; undergraduate research, outstanding faculty, challenging classes, etc. MIT also will typically offer a good amount of financial aid to those who need it. By going two years at a CC then transfering in (assuming that you can) you would be missing a lot of why people go to MIT.</p>
<p>@marciemi - I believe you can only transfer to MIT as a sophomore or junior. They want you around for at least two years.</p>
<p>Maybe if the OP can improve on his ACT 28, it might fare better for him later down the line.</p>
<p>@Withcy - </p>
<p>I’m a bit confused. Are you going to CC regardless? Because planning on going from CC -> MIT to save money is not a good plan, because a) we admit very few transfer students each year (much harder to get into MIT as transfer student) and b) you won’t save really any money (both because you’ll still likely have to do 3 years at MIT and also because we give full need financial aid so you should be able to afford it anyway)</p>
<p>Perhaps though, the plan is (realistically) to go to CC -> somewhere good. Nearly nobody gets into MIT, and transfers are even fewer in number according to this thread. </p>
<p>I imagine not everywhere offers quite as good aid as MIT does.</p>
<p>Probably the correct plan though would be to apply to MIT and see what happens first, and if it doesn’t work out, consider the CC → transfer plan.</p>
<p>Does the act still matter? Also, I prolly can’t get in MIT atm so that is why i want to do cc first</p>
<p>Are you at a community college now? Graduating high school? Or ?</p>
<p>You’ve posted the same question on several forums. What are your grades, your scores, your interests, your extra curriculars, your honors, and what state do you live in. This information will lead to much better answers for you. </p>
<p>Referring to a question posted on at least one of the other school’s forums is you are wondering what schools you can apply to from CC … the answers to the questions above would be helpful, but the safest answer is most public universities. </p>
<p>Depending on the answers to the questions, you may still be much better off (financially and transferring) by attending a 4 year school (privates frequently offer better financial aid than state publics).</p>
<p>HTH.</p>
<p>Well my grades dropped junior year because I stopped trying. Had a 4.0 and 4.33 weighted end of sophmore year. Then it went to 3.45 and 4.01
End of junior year. I am not trying now either cuz senior and am getting 2 A and 2 Bs. I will go back to my sophmore lifestyle when u go to cc and work real hard. I never did any extracurricular in high school because I was never aware. Will so in cc
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<p>^ Never aware…?</p>
<p>So you’ve acknowledged that you slacked off junior year and are continuing to slack off right now, but you’re not going to do anything about it until you get to community college? This doesn’t seem like a good plan…</p>
<p>not really slacking off atm since im getting grades way better than junior year but why should i even try right now?</p>
<p>^ You… see no value in working and learning for its own sake, and apparently do nothing outside of slacking off in your classes. Why would you ever think you belong at MIT?</p>
<p>I hope there’s just a point that needs clarification here, because otherwise, this is just sad.</p>
<p>I am not slacking off? I am still getting A’s… its just that its really easy right now and I feel bored.</p>
<p>If you are bored, you still will not make it to a top school. You need to be challenging yourself. You also will need to convince admissions people that you won’t suddenly start slacking off at their school. So I hope your reason for not trying was an issue you have corrected.</p>
<p>Well its too late now to make to a top school thats why ill try really hard at cc</p>
<p>It does not appear that you will be a good fit for MIT… They accept individuals who always seek to challenge themselves, not those who think it’s too late and plan to try hard next year… What if in CC you say you’ll try hard in graduate school? I’m worried that you may never get the motivation to kick it into high gear, which is certainly necessary if you plan to transfer to MIT.</p>
<p>Trust me I will. I’m getting A’s right now what mote do you want?</p>
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