What are my chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Background:</p>

<p>International asian student from Hong Kong (not helping)</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 780/760/690 <a href="One%20sitting">2230</a>
SAT II (subject, score): Math II-780, Chemistry-720
GPA: Cs and Ds during highschool freshman. (I can explain) As and Bs in sophomore (I can explain). Now ranking 1st and IB predicted score: 42/42 (I can explain)
Senior Year Course Load: (DC=Dual Credit) HL Chem, HL English, HL Physics, SL Econ, SL Math (= AP Calculus AB)(I can explain this too), SL Spanish
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): NONE
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): A few tiny merits from high school.</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Nothing significant that would show my passion.
Job/Work Experience: Piano tutoring for children.
Volunteer/Community Service: Quite insignificant work
Summer Experience: Took a few courses at local universities, Programmed something very meaningful and personal.</p>

<p>Teacher Rec: Not bad.</p>

<p>Department intended: Computer Science</p>

<p>Now given such average stats, if the candidate has the right personality, can he still get in? </p>

<p>*** If he doesn't qualify for MIT, what other schools might suit this candidate, given these stats.</p>

<p>Thank You!
Jeffrey</p>

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<p>It is harder for an international than a domestic candidate, but I don’t have personal experience with what it takes to get in as an international.</p>

<p>If you were a domestic, I would say your grades are way too low to get into MIT or most top 20 schools, unless they have a policy of not looking at freshman grades (Stanford used to have this policy, and the U. of California schools may do this, but I’m not sure.) The one exception is if you had an illness or some major family problem freshman year (divorce, death in the family.)<br>
As your record stands now, I think you might have a chance at state schools and some liberal arts colleges at which your standardized scores would be high and which would be encouraged by your improvement. </p>

<p>I don’t know what an IB score is so I don’t know how to evaluate that.</p>

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<p>Good question. Many have asked the same.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939227-reminder-no-one-not-even-me-can-give-you-an-accurate-chance-at-mit.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939227-reminder-no-one-not-even-me-can-give-you-an-accurate-chance-at-mit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Hopefully the link attached will be satisfying.</p>

<p>Cheers,
Stan</p>