Worth a shot?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Give me some chances please, preferably in percentile form.</p>

<p>I goto one of the top public non-magnet schools in Missouri.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White, Jewish</p>

<p>GPA:
UW 3.91
W 4.33</p>

<p>Pronounced upward trend. Here is a picture of all my grades and classes from 9-11th grade.
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<p>Rank - School doesn't</p>

<p>My senior courseload is
Calc BC
AP Physics
Science Research
AP US History
AP Statistics
AP English
Creative Writing</p>

<p>I have As in all of them and will probably at the Semester too so that will raise my GPA a tad.</p>

<p>Test Scores:
ACT - 34 (35 English, 33 Math, 36 Reading, 33 Science, 9 Essay)</p>

<p>SAT - 2260(770 CR, 710 M (killer?), 780 W, 8 Essay)</p>

<p>SAT II:
World History - 800
Math IIc - 780
Chemistry - 780</p>

<p>APs:
5:
World History
English Language
US Gov
Computer Science A
Macroeconomics
4:
Chemistry</p>

<p>ECs:
Co-Captain of Science Olympiad
Co-Captain of Quizbowl team
Mu Alpha Theta
20 hours tutoring kids at the middle school
50 hours coaching Middle School Science Olympiad
Did research at Washington University
Designed a website for St. Louis artist
Programmed an aerial photo application for St. Louis County Planning Department</p>

<p>Awards:
7 Science Olympiad gold medals at the state level
Won various game development competitions
1 6th place medal at Scioly nationals in 8th grade
1 2nd place medal for Quizbowl Tournament
4th place state medal for National History Day
3rd then 2nd place Loebner</a> Prize
National Merit Semi-Finalist</p>

<p>Hardass English teacher said my essay was excellent.</p>

<p>I expect my recs to be somewhat above average.</p>

<p>The bad thing about me is class grades and test scores-wise my worst subject is math. Hopefully a good rec from my math teacher can cover for that.</p>

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<p>If you take any percentile chances that people give you seriously, you are crazy or misinformed. It’s not realistic. What is realistic, is for people to give feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of your application, and let you infer from there.</p>

<p>710 on the SAT math section is not killer. Not ideal, but not at the level that will get you rejected. My worst subject grades-wise was also math, and I got a 2 on the AP Calc BC test, and I got in, so apparently that won’t kill you. You need some way to establish that you have enough math talent to do the MIT math requirements - if you can figure that out you’ll probably be okay in that regard.</p>

<p>My biggest worry about your stats is that you seem to have a C- in something from freshman year (and your freshman grades in general are kind of low), but you don’t seem to have had anything like that since then. I have no idea what a grade of ‘H’ means. Your upperclass grades and the rest of your stats look fine. Your overall GPA is more than good enough.</p>

<p>Your Science Olympiad medals are great (better than I did :)), as are your prizes in game development competitions. The Loebner Prize is cool. Quiz Bowl is probably a smaller benefit, but still a benefit. Research is good! Tutoring and coaching is good. NMSF won’t get you anything; they’re a dime a dozen in the applicant pool.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the excellent advice, jessiehl</p>

<p>H is ‘honors’ it means anything greater than 96.5%</p>

<p>Apparently MIT superscores the ACT, which would give me 35 composite superscored, since I got a 35 in math on my first sitting. Would that + a good rec from my calc teacher be enough to remove any doubts about my ability to do the work?</p>

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<p>I can’t make any guarantees. I have a reasonable understanding of how MIT Admissions works from being friends with some of the officers and hanging out in the office a lot in between classes for a couple of years. But I can never give definite answers on a specific case. I would predict, however, that it will help. In my case, I had low math grades and a low AP Calc BC score, but I had 800s on SAT I math and SAT II Math IIC, and that probably helped redeem me. I didn’t have any recs from math teachers - different people have different ways of proving that they’re capable - but a good rec from a math teacher can only help.</p>

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<p>Not a chance.</p>

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<p>Seriously? :(</p>

<p>Is there something gratuitously wrong with my application??? I’m going to cry.</p>

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<p>dude just chill-responses like that are pretty common on chance threads lol. listen to jessie</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’m pretty sure he was just kidding. It’s very rare to see someone post a chance thread that has no chance, and yours seems stronger than most so don’t worry about it.</p>