<p>I've already sent in the first half of my EA app, but I just want to know if my profile gives me any chance of getting accepted at all.</p>
<p>Year: 2008/2012
Major: Linguistics
Location: South Florida
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic
School: Private religious, sends some grads to top schools</p>
<p>AP Scores:
Spanish Language: 5
English Language: 4
US History: 5 (self-studied)</p>
<p>Senior APs:
AP English Lit
AP Calc BC
AP Phys B (no C offered)
AP Microecon
AP Macroecon
AP US Gov
AP Comparative Gov (self-studying)
AP Java A (online course)</p>
<p>ECs:
President of Young Democrats (4 years)
Secretary/Treasurer of Model UN (4 years; won awards at several national conferences)
Schools News Network (2 years; produced and hosted my own weekly entertainment show)
Newspaper and Yearbook Staff (2-3 years)
Math Honor Society (2 years)
National Honor Society (2 years)</p>
<p>Awards:
National Merit Commended
National Hispanic Scholar Finalist
2nd place in local college's physics competition</p>
<p>Obviously there are people here with much better profiles, but could someone like me actually get in to MIT?</p>
<p>Well my school has a long history of students with very strong profiles getting rejected from MIT. We have had people apply every year, but nobody has gotten in for about a decade. Last year our salutorian who had perfect SATIs and IIs and was a varsity athlete got rejected. I guess it's just due to MIT's reputation of being almost impossible to get into.</p>
<p>Of course you'll be considered. A bad history doesn't kill you. It's kind of like dice, they way I think about it; past rolls don't affect the current result. Though they may just have a grudge against your school, though I can't think of why. Anyway, you're competitive, definitely. Good luck, fellow 2012 prospie!</p>
<p>Something I noticed about the OP's profile is that he hasn't taken AP physics yet...I don't think the 650 score will be held against you for that reason. Also, the OP isn't that advanced at math. I imagine the OP was taking trig the same semester he took the SAT math. This could also hurt the math score.</p>
<p>Either way, your application will be considered, but it would help a lot if you aced the SATII's.</p>
<p>MIT took it off their site but they had written that as long as a URM is academically qualified, that is, they can do the work there, they will be accepted to MIT.</p>