What else can I do to get into MIT?


Feb - 03 | By: | 3 comments.

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I have done:
Skipped 1st for academics
Choir – 2nd
Spelling Bee – 4th
Science Olympiad – 5th
Viper Awards – 6th
Best Effort Award – 6th
Top in Class – 6th, 7th, 8th
Mathletes – 6th, 7th, 8th
Tennis – 9th
FFA – 9th
School Art Show entrance – 10th
Girls Tennis Manager – 10th
Varsity Tennis – 10th
Wrestling – 10th (Though I quit since I hated it … I tried)
Taken all available Honors since 7th
GATE since 6th
AP Chem and World History – 10th
On waiting list for Hospital Volunteering
Karate
Judo

Plan to:
Mathlete – 10th-12th
Pentathlete – 10th-12th
Whatever else my cheap school will have available.

I am:
Very ambitious
Been told I’m bright
Artistic
Very hard working, though indolent
Dedicated (I’ve been hitting –tennis– nearly everyday since I started at school February)

GPA History (2nd semesters):
6th – 3.971 (1 Hon, until the school dropped the class)
7th – 4.000 (4 Hon)
8th – 4.000 (4 Hon)
9th – 4.000 (1 Hon)
10th – 3.5 (unweighted, 1st sem, 2 Hon, 2 AP)
– 4.167 weighted

No one cares about anything before high school. Do/have you:

1) have an SAT score above 2300
2) have 800s on the Math 2 subject test and chemistry and/or physics subject test
3) take many AP classes
4) taken the AMC and subsequent tests
5) done any scientific research
6) published any papers
7) won any national or international awards
8) have an unweighted gpa of 4.0
9) great essays

3 Responses to “What else can I do to get into MIT?”

  1. Balla says:
    February 4, 2010 at 3:27 am

    lol did u just count 6th 7th and 8th grade lmao
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  2. LANigan oN SODMG says:
    February 4, 2010 at 3:33 am

    No one cares about anything before high school. Do/have you:

    1) have an SAT score above 2300
    2) have 800s on the Math 2 subject test and chemistry and/or physics subject test
    3) take many AP classes
    4) taken the AMC and subsequent tests
    5) done any scientific research
    6) published any papers
    7) won any national or international awards
    8) have an unweighted gpa of 4.0
    9) great essays
    References :

  3. Aero says:
    February 4, 2010 at 3:51 am

    So far you are not off to the best of starts (for MIT at least), it is going to be hard to make it up. Universities don’t care whatsoever about grades before high-school and that 3.5 is as close as it comes to a death sentence when applying to MIT. From here on out you need to get all A’s, keep a lot of EC’s and a killer SAT to help make up for the GPA. The simple truth is that there are tons of kids with 4.0′s and good SAT’s that get turned down from MIT so it will be impossible to get in if you don’t get all A’s with a great SAT (and even then your chances aren’t that great.)
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