red remote

Accepted


Stats:

• SAT: N/A
• SAT II: 2350
• ACT: 35
• GPA: 4.0/4.0
• Rank: 1/175
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Lang-4, Bio-5

Subjective

• Essays: Not So Good...I think I came off a bit arrogant although that's not me at all. My RD essays are absolutely amazing though, I won UMICH's 'best essay scholarship' with one of them which is impressive considering there are 20k applicants. Very good sign as I enter RD decisions. But MIT is just so good!
• Teacher Recs: T1: Best Student in 30 years, I planned her AP curriculum for her. T2: I would say good to above average.
• Counselor Rec: Who knows? She likes me because I'm a good student and respectful, but she is extremely inexperienced in elite colleges. We haven't sent anyone in maybe 20 years to a top 10 school.
• Supplementary Material: Extra Essay-better but not great
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I was a DIV I recruited football player, but it really didn't come up in my application at all. That's one of the reasons that I like MIT so much, the laid back DIV III atmosphere
• Interview: I interviewed with the president of the MIT alumni association for the entire united states and he liked me a lot because I'm quite personable but also made the comment that he's seen a lot of unique individuals at MIT, but I'd certainly be the most unique that's he's ever seen admitted. (I'm not really peculiar looking but rather my interests are so diverse that you would never think they'd go together).

Personal

• Location: Detroit MI
• High School Type: Religious (Lutheran)
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Applied for Financial Aid: Yes Y/N

Other

• Extracurriculars: I forgot exactly what I put on my application but here's a list: 4 year varsity track and 3 year captain, 3 year varsity football, Powerlifting, Founding member of Spanish and Key Clubs, Short Trading, and I have my own eBay business with over $300k in sales (only 125k claimed on app though). I started working 40 hrs a week during the summer at 14 and 20 during the school year before starting up my eBay business. My experience is extensive.
• Awards: State powerlifting champion, state stock trading champion, some regional science oympiad 1sts, um free classes at my community through my high school career, 10th at the Cleveland Nike HS football combine (HUGE!)
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'd just say that if you spend your entire high school career obsessed with a great college than it is inevitable that your individuality will be crushed. You will become so obsessed with grades, summer programs, and scores that you will no longer be unique and therefore stand out in the applicant pool. I never even considered going to an elite school until maybe 8 months ago after I got my ACT back w/ no test prep. Looking at me, you would never think that kid is an MIT applicant (state powerlifting champion from Detroit). But my individuality is what really set me apart. I don't want to stereotype here, but I think of some kids that I know who spend their lives obsessed with college prestige, studying, test prepping, and doing the *right* ECs, that they don't stand a chance standing out in the applicant pool. In short, If you have the academic potential than pursue whatever you enjoy. If you don't, than don't kill yourself to get into these schools. God has a station for you in life...find it

I would also really like to say that we should all thank the admission's people for doing such a great job. For kids like me, who have never known anyone at an elite school, MIT does an amazing job of turning a school full of crazy smart math and science kids into a HUMAN place. What I mean by that is that they are so good at setting up the blogs etc that MIT is not just some elite school but a place full of really cool people