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MIT is deluged with 2300+ SAT valedictorians who've worked in university labs; it's bored to tears with them.
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Whoops...sounds like me.
Deferred Stats:- SAT: 2330 770 M 760 V 800 W
- SAT II: 800 IIC 800 Physics 760 US History 750 Chem
- ACT: Nah
- GPA: 4.00, 103.3 weighted 96.0 unweighted?
- Rank: 1 out of 713 (Huge private school)
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 French, 5 US History, 4 Microeconomics, 4 Macroeconomics, and 3 Physics B (Had a really horrible day...800 in Physics SAT II pretty much nullifies this.)
[ b]Subjective[/b]
- Essays: Inspiring, reflective of my dreams.
- Teacher Recs: Good/Generic
- Counselor Rec: Good/Generic (Huge school)
- Supplementary Material: Two research abstracts, two recommendations, and a resume. Summer of Junior Year did a research internship in MIT's nuclear engineering department and worked on evaluating a quantum algorithm -- did simulations with MATLAB code and a NMR spectrometer. Got a glowing recommendation from my professor - brilliant guy that discovered pseudopure states. Summer of Senior Year did a research internship in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science -- worked on a microfluidics project evaluating how variations in orifice dimension and nozzle geometry would affect the monodispersity of drops through a PDMS device. Developed software in LabView for image processing and particle analysis. The post-doc I worked for and the professor that ran the group collectively wrote a recommendation that they sent in.
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Glowing recommendation from a MIT professor?
Personal- Location: New Hampshire
- High School Type: Private
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: XY
Other- Extracurriculars: See stats profile -- bunch of leadership positions on school academically competitive teams, loads of political involvement, and community service. 2 summer research internships.
- Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, one state award, few other generic awards.
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
Harvard legacy probs hurts my chances at top schools like MIT. Being a white male also didn't help. At least I got into UChicago.
I still really like MIT, and I'm grateful that they gave me a reality check to get going on my college apps. The admissions protocol seems rather different than most Ivies, but I think that this will manifest itself in the way that MIT grads go out to change the world.
At least there's still RD...