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Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 770 R, 740 M, 750 W (2260)
• SAT II: 740 Math 2, 690 Biology M
• ACT: 34 (35/35/33/33)
• GPA: 3.92 unweighted, school doesn’t weight
• Rank: top 10%
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB-4, APUSH-4, Eng Lit-5

Subjective

• Essays: very honest.
• Teacher Recs: very good
• Counselor Rec: generic, although it did say MIT was my first choice
• Supplementary Material: filled out all the optional essays (with the completely optional one about how much I wanted to go to MIT), also a recommendation from the staff of WTP
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I dropped out of college at 14? (long story) I don’t know. I hope it was my willingness to be honest that won them over.

Personal

• Location: WA
• High School Type: huge, mediocre public
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: female

Other

• Extracurriculars: theater, student government, newspaper, science olympiad
• Awards: lots of theater awards, nothing huge, national merit semifinalist, ap scholar
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I pretty much did “everything wrong” and got into MIT.

"And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you." - Suzan-Lori Parks