<p>Well, I've started looking at colleges and realized that I would really like to attend MIT. It would be good because I want to get my PhD in Chemical Engineering. Im currently a sophomore. My freshman year I kinda screwed up ending with a 3.07 gpa. This year I have a 4.0. Ill be attending a school for math and science my next two years. I can take tons of AP and honors classes. What should I take? By the way I have strong extra curriculars. I love to run track. I love music and formed, and now lead my churchs youth band. I worked to design my school's yearbook and am a member of the jazz band. I also have my eagle scout award in boy scouts. Do I have a good shot?</p>
<p>You can check out the decisions threads from EA this year and from EA and RD last year, which are stickied at the top of this forum. Not all applicants post here, of course, but it you leaf through those threads you can get an idea of the types of students who are admitted to MIT each year.</p>
<p>It’s really difficult to be admitted to MIT regardless of how strong your profile is, however, so nobody really has a “good” shot. That’s absolutely not meant to be discouraging, and you sound like you’re doing a lot of things that make you happy and intellectually excited, and that’s a very good thing. But no combination of things will guarantee you admission to MIT – just keep that in mind. You should do things in high school that you would have done regardless of whether you get into MIT in the end or not.</p>
<p>You can find a page with MIT’s recommended high school preparation [url=<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/recommended_high_school_preparation/index.shtml]here[/url”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/before/recommended_high_school_preparation/index.shtml]here[/url</a>]. If you have the ability and inclination to take them, the more honors and AP math and science classes you can take, the better – they’ll help in admissions, of course, but they’ll also help you survive once you get to MIT.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice, it will really help. As for getting in, I understand that theres nothing I can do to guarantee admission, because every class is different. But thanks much.</p>
<p>Hi, I am currently an eigth grader attending middle school and I one day dream of going to M.I.T. and getting a PHD in mechanical engineering so I can one day become an automotive designer/ engineer. I would like to know if I should go to either a regular highschool and take all the difficult classes, or go to a hard to get into art school that I got into, and not have many choices schoolwise. Would the art props improve my impression. I would do very well in the academic portion of the art school because alot of the kids are really into art and aren’t generally the best in academics, which would boost me right to the head of the class because I am very good at academics. Should I go to the regular highschool and take all the difficult classes and also excel? Should I go to a brainiac highschool where everyone is smart which would make me appear average? I don’t know what to do, please help me. I’ve gotten very very high star test scores all above advanced. Which school do you thing would suit me the best guys?</p>