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I will straight up say that I might be among the 15% that would not have been admitted to MIT with the previous admissions process. Why? Well, I took classes I wanted to take in high school (including the ones that eventually depressed my GPA enough by being non-honors to push me out of the valedictorian spot), I played a sport all three seasons of every year, never went to a science fair, never had an internship, never did research. I worked at a tennis club in the summer and watched movies. I took the SATs once, got about a 1500 and thought that was good enough for me.
And I was let in. As a matter of fact, so was my twin brother who was every bit as qualified as me. I wasn't an academic powerhouse, but I was well rounded and apparently according to my friends in the admissions office the admissions officer for my area still talks about us because we had the most interesting applications he had ever seen.
Do I "belong" at MIT? Hell yes. And I prove it will my grades. I approach college exactly like I approached high school and I'm excelling with minimal stress. Could I have done better in high school, tried more thing, stressed myself out everyday? Yeah, but I didn't, and that doesn't make me any less qualified than the academic powerhouses that could have been let in instead of me or my brother.
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