Q. MIT is my dream school that id like to attend and participate in their biomedical or chemical engineering programs. Im currently a junior in high school. Here is my criteria:
Freshman Year: A's in every class finished the year with a 4.1 but only took honors mathamatics (i believe that may hurt me but i also have heard freshman year is slightly "looked over")
Sophomore year: I really stepped my game up that year and had a teacher who truly influenced me and kind of "sparked" me into the person i am now.
Honors Bio - A
Honors Modern History - A
Honors Alg 2 - A
Honors English - A
SPanish 2 - A
Programming Java Honors - A
Finished the year with a 4.5 cumulatively
Junior year:
AP Bio - A
AP Lit - A
AP Computer Science- A
Honors History - A
Honors Trig - A
Spanish 3 - A
Honors Chem - A
finished with 4.6 cumulatively
SAT - 2120(plan on retaking them)
Senior year(what i intend to take):
AP Calc
Ap prob and stat
AP chem
AP physics
AP Economics
AP Composition
Spanish 4
Honors history
Extra curriculars:
1. Play lacrosse year round on my highschool team(varsity sophomore year) and various elite club teams
2.Started playing the piano last year and am very accomplished(has become a passion now)
3. I participate in the science olympiad and went to states
4. I enjoy building robots with my grandfather(Science teacher & passion)
5. Got the green chord(award presented to a student for every 100 hours of community service)
6. I volunteer at soup kitchens and run science camps at my local YMCA during the summer for 2 weeks at a time
7. Help tutor kids in biology(last year) and mathamatics(maybe not extracurricular? who knows)
8. Started my own community service committee in my local town and got kids from school to join and participate
9. Trying to start up my own lacrosse summer club team for the summer with various teammates
10. I love to make up games, not just random ones in car rides but actual GAMES. Usually they dont involve boards and a bit more complicated compared to the everyday game. My new game involves a pair of magnets along with many objects. (not gonna give away all the secrets (: )
11. Co president of the Key club (club based on community service)
If you havent already noticed i like to do a lot with community service, not just because it looks good on a application but because of the sense of fulfillment i recieve when i know im helping another person.
Oh yeah! Im also top 4% of my class or more specifically 25/595.
Please tell me if youve got accepted to a college at this caliber what you did in and out of school ect. just so i have an idea and also give any helpful tips.
A. I can tell you that you have a very strong profile, but I can't make anything even close to a guarantee about your chances at acceptance. Your grades and extracurricular activities are stellar, but so are most of those students who apply to MIT. You can bet that you'll see a lot of AP science and math classes on their resume as well, science olympiad, and robotics (usually through their school), but also a lot of sports, music, and volunteer work. Especially when you're applying to a science-heavy institution such as MIT, you're going to need to really show that your passion exceeds or is different than everyone else's. That's really what it comes down to for top universities in the nation: differentiating yourself with something unique that's not academics or even extracurricular activities. Now it's possible that your uniqueness might extend into a manifestation that exists in your EC's, but I've seen everything that you've presented just here on Yahoo! Answers in the past year, and this is only a minute slice of the college applicant pool. Valedictorians, people with 2400 SAT scores, and students recognized nationally for their community involvement are regularly turned away from top universities because of how competitive admissions is.
I'll be attending a top 5 liberal arts college with a <13% acceptance rate in the fall and for me, my "hook" was that I want to study paleontology. In my case, this bled into my EC's as I've volunteered with a natural history museum and their dinosaur branch, so it really helped to show that I'm not just kid who hit his dinosaur phase late, but someone who's really engaged in the field and still wants to pursue it. Just like you, I took a lot of AP / honors classes, was top 10% in my grade (school doesn't rank, so it might have been higher), did a lot of stuff on the outside from volunteering at dog shelters to being captain of the Speech & Debate team, but it's really the paleontology (and maybe the little blurb about my reptiles in the short answer part on the Common App) that made me stand out from everyone else.
Some suggestions:
1. Definitely retake your SAT. You need to get into the 2200 range at minimum to be around the average, and preferably get higher. There really is not safe level to be at; just aim as high as you can and see where you land.
2. Like me, you probably didn't take a full load of AP's in the humanities (English, history, foreign languages) because they aren't your subject, aren't necessary for your future work, and take away from your time, just make sure that you articulate that somewhere because the three years of honors history stands out on the transcript.
3. Pick your essay topic very carefully. You don't want to show that you're a smart person; your grades already show that. You don't want to show that you're an involved person; your EC's already show that. You want to show that you're a unique and gifted individual who's worth admitting not only on the merits of his / her skills and talents, but his / her character and personality. MIT doesn't need smart students, they need smart people.
Applying to MIT and other ivy league schools, hwo do i look?
Q. MIT is my dream school that id like to attend and participate in their biomedical or chemical engineering programs. Im currently a junior in high school. Here is my criteria:
Freshman Year: A's in every class finished the year with a 4.1 but only took honors mathamatics (i believe that may hurt me but i also have heard freshman year is slightly "looked over")
Sophomore year: I really stepped my game up that year and had a teacher who truly influenced me and kind of "sparked" me into the person i am now.
Honors Bio - A
Honors Modern History - A
Honors Alg 2 - A
Honors English - A
SPanish 2 - A
Programming Java Honors - A
Finished the year with a 4.5 cumulatively
Junior year:
AP Bio - A
AP Lit - A
AP Computer Science- A
Honors History - A
Honors Trig - A
Spanish 3 - A
Honors Chem - A
finished with 4.6 cumulatively
SAT - 2120(plan on retaking them)
Senior year(what i intend to take):
AP Calc
Ap prob and stat
AP chem
AP physics
AP Economics
AP Composition
Spanish 4
Honors history
Extra curriculars:
1. Play lacrosse year round on my highschool team(varsity sophomore year) and various elite club teams
2.Started playing the piano last year and am very accomplished(has become a passion now)
3. I participate in the science olympiad and went to states
4. I enjoy building robots with my grandfather(Science teacher & passion)
5. Got the green chord(award presented to a student for every 100 hours of community service)
6. I volunteer at soup kitchens and run science camps at my local YMCA during the summer for 2 weeks at a time
7. Help tutor kids in biology(last year) and mathamatics(maybe not extracurricular? who knows)
8. Started my own community service committee in my local town and got kids from school to join and participate
9. Trying to start up my own lacrosse summer club team for the summer with various teammates
10. I love to make up games, not just random ones in car rides but actual GAMES. Usually they dont involve boards and a bit more complicated compared to the everyday game. My new game involves a pair of magnets along with many objects. (not gonna give away all the secrets (: )
11. Co president of the Key club (club based on community service)
If you havent already noticed i like to do a lot with community service, not just because it looks good on a application but because of the sense of fulfillment i recieve when i know im helping another person.
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Please tell me if youve got accepted to a college at this caliber what you did in and out of school ect. just so i have an idea and also give any helpful tips.
A. You look fine academically, just present a bullet proof admissions essay and I'd say you're in.
Applying to MIT/John Hopkins/ Cornell for engineering, how do i look?
Q. MIT is my dream school that id like to attend and participate in their biomedical or chemical engineering programs. Im currently a junior in high school. Here is my criteria:
Freshman Year: A's in every class finished the year with a 4.1 but only took honors mathamatics (i believe that may hurt me but i also have heard freshman year is slightly "looked over")
Sophomore year: I really stepped my game up that year and had a teacher who truly influenced me and kind of "sparked" me into the person i am now.
Honors Bio - A
Honors Modern History - A
Honors Alg 2 - A
Honors English - A
SPanish 2 - A
Programming Java Honors - A
Finished the year with a 4.5 cumulatively
Junior year:
AP Bio - A
AP Lit - A
AP Computer Science- A
Honors History - A
Honors Trig - A
Spanish 3 - A
Honors Chem - A
finished with 4.6 cumulatively
SAT - 2120(plan on retaking them)
Senior year(what i intend to take):
AP Calc
Ap prob and stat
AP chem
AP physics
AP Economics
AP Composition
Spanish 4
Honors history
Extra curriculars:
1. Play lacrosse year round on my highschool team(varsity sophomore year) and various elite club teams
2.Started playing the piano last year and am very accomplished(has become a passion now)
3. I participate in the science olympiad and went to states
4. I enjoy building robots with my grandfather(Science teacher & passion)
5. Got the green chord(award presented to a student for every 100 hours of community service)
6. I volunteer at soup kitchens and run science camps at my local YMCA during the summer for 2 weeks at a time
7. Help tutor kids in biology(last year) and mathamatics(maybe not extracurricular? who knows)
8. Started my own community service committee in my local town and got kids from school to join and participate
9. Trying to start up my own lacrosse summer club team for the summer with various teammates
10. I love to make up games, not just random ones in car rides but actual GAMES. Usually they dont involve boards and a bit more complicated compared to the everyday game. My new game involves a pair of magnets along with many objects. (not gonna give away all the secrets (: )
11. Co president of the Key club (club based on community service)
If you havent already noticed i like to do a lot with community service, not just because it looks good on a application but because of the sense of fulfillment i recieve when i know im helping another person.
Please tell me if youve got accepted to a college at this caliber what you did in and out of school ect. just so i have an idea and also give any helpful tips.
A. And to think that I got into MIT without any AP or calculus and only some slightly accelerated math classes (school got AP after I left) and almost no outside activities. I won't tell you what happened after the big fish in the small pond hit MIT (first of my school to go.)
I would think that you have mind blowing qualifications according to all the articles on "How to get Accepted at the College of Your Choice" and wish you luck in your interviews.
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