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.
Where can I find a program that will reproduce any sound frequency?
Q. Is there a program (or is it possible to make a program) in which you type in a frequency (say, 440 Hz for A) and it will be played for you. And then if you typed 450 (not an actual note) it would still play the exact sound (a slightly sharp A). I'm trying to see how it would sound if instead of musical octaves being separated into 8 equal parts when creating a major scale (as in, containing 8 distinct pitches/notes), octaves had some other number of separated parts (pitches/notes). Are major scales even divided equally? Are all the frequencies between the notes in a major scale the same interval?
A. Hi!
First off a program to explore frequencies :
http://pages.globetrotter.net/roule/sa/accord.htm
Is a Java program that allows you explore frequency online.
Otherwise you could use a sound editing suite. I have MAGIX MP3 maker and I can create an MP3 by adding add simple frequencies, together. like 1 second of 440Hz, 1 sec of 500Hz, etc.,
Your question about major scales is more complicated. How to divide the octave into parts to make a scale is a question that has been debated for 2000 years! Pythagoros, the famous triangle man, was one of the first people to start on it,
A major scale is not evenly divided.
Imagine a piano keyboard. As we play up a C major scale, we will just use the white keys. So from C to D skips a black key. So that interval is a Tone. From D to E skips D#, so that interval is a tone. Then from E to F, there is no black key, so that is only a semitone.
So the way a major scale is divided is T-T-sT-T-T-T-sT
If you now play it and listen carefully, you will hear that the major scale is not equal divided. It is just that we are so conditioned to listening to music in the major key that we just don't hear it, unless we listen carefully.
Now, next, what frequencies will you need to put into your tone generator to generate a major scale.
So if A is at 440Hz
A the octave above is twice the frequency = 880Hz
(This is always the case you always go up an octave by doubling the frequency)
Now the 'modern' way of dividing this frequency range is called equal temperament. It is called equal temperament because every semitone is the exact same ratio of frequencies. Knowing this we can mathematically work out exactly what the frequencies need to.
There are 12 semitone steps in an octave. An octave doubles the frequency, so the ratio between a frequency of a note and that of the semitone above needs to be the 12 root of 2! (1.0535)
So we can write out the frequency for an a major scale, using equal temperament.
NoteIntervalFrequency
A440.0Hz
BT493.9Hz
C#T554.4Hz
DST587.3Hz
ET659.3Hz
F#T740.0Hz
G#T830.6Hz
A'ST880.0Hz
Equal temperament is very useful, because it means that a piano can be a transposing instrument, that means you can play any key signature equally on it. And the chords you make on it will sound equally good in any key.
There is a disadvantage though. There are some particular ratios of frequencies that sound very good together, there are very pure harmonies.
For example a pure fifth, the interval between A and E for example, if it was tuned exactly would have the exact geometric ratio of 3:2 or a ratio of 1.5.
So if we tuned our piano this way to give this very pretty 5th, E should be 440*1.5 = 660Hz. But our equal system has put it at 659.3. Very close but not a perfect interval. The fourth is even worse. That is why some people say the equal temperament is equally out of tune :)
You look up more on temperament on sites like :
http://www.terryblackburn.us/music/temperament/stoess.htm
Hope this has been some help. But the subject you are just entering is quite complicated, but fascinating.
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