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Old 07-16-2012, 01:49 AM   #1
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Chance me for MIT Class of 2017

Hello I'm a rising senior and i was hoping if you could chance me for MIT RD

Gender: Male
Race: Hispanic
Intended Major: Neuroscience/Molecular Bio

Class Rank: Top 1%

Testing:
SAT: Math-790 Verbal-720 writing-760 (2270 total)
SatIIs: Bio M: 800 MathII:790
AP exams: Bio-5 World-5 Calc AB-5 Stats-5 US History-5 Eng. Lang-4 Physics B-4

Awards:
Science:
-1st place in cell and molecular bio at ISEF from the Air Force (2012)
-Best in Fair Grand award at Florida State science fair (2012)
-1st place-biochemistry at states science fair (2012)
-2nd place at Florida Junior academy of science state competition
-Paper being reviewed for Cell
-USABO semifinalist (open score :35)
-2nd place at district brain bee

Math:
5th place in Statisitics at State convention
Various Mu Alpha theta district awards
AIME finalist (Score:5)

EC:
President and founder of Chinese CLub and Chinese Honor Society
President of Science research club
Marching band- saxophone section leader
-Doing research in Molecular developmental neuroscience during the summer and neuronal regeneration during the school year

Community service:
~800 hours in 3 years
Raised over $1000 for an elderly home in rural Colombia, volunteered at the home, and helped provide medical aid for the homeless senior citizens.



any tips/advice would be appreciated...thanks!
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Old 07-16-2012, 11:47 AM   #2
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Do your best on what you have left: write essays that capture you well, get recommendation letters from people who know you well and like what they know, and be yourself at your interview. Good luck.
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Old 07-18-2012, 11:31 PM   #3
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Wait, you're Hispanic and you started the Chinese Club and Chinese Honor Society?
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Old 07-20-2012, 10:23 PM   #4
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^Exactly what I was thinking...

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Old 07-20-2012, 10:33 PM   #5
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Very impressive!!!
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Old 08-23-2012, 09:05 PM   #6
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Help me! chance FOR MIT!

hi i am an Asian , currently high school student <2nd year>. i am evaluating my chance for MIT and i need your help!
i appeared for my As <1st year> exam and got the grades . they are 2As 1B and 2Cs!
i am thinking that if grades are of not that importance i wont retake and if it really needs grades for me to Get into MIT than i can retake my exams!
i am currently preparing for SAT and TOEFL test and hope to get 2200 in SAT, 100 in TOEFL and 2300 in SAT subjective test!

I have not taken and will not take any APs!
i have participated in many inter school competitions but not any international competitions!
<will MIT see this?>
i have done 200 hours of social works.
PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME GETTING MIT!
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