Actual Results Thread (MIT, IVY, Military Academy)

Applying to College
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Wanted to do this as a thank you for everyone that helped and pushed me to apply for places I didn’t think I would get in. Hopefully this inspires people that are in my position to apply for their dream schools.

Schools I Applied to:
US Air Force Academy (Accepted)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Accepted and Attending)
US Naval Academy (Accepted)
Yale University (Accepted)
UT Austin (Accepted)

Well here are my stats (at the time of applying), hope this helps anyone

ACT (33 ACT)
SAT II (780 Math / 720 Chem)
PSAT(1450)

GPA-3.88/4.00
Rank 37/650

NASA High School Aero Space Scholar- Very selective program out of Texas to go down to NASA for a week and study astro. Competed Rigorous course over school year and actually went on site. (I get a science credit at my school for completion of this program)

Air Force Academy Summer Seminar Cadet- 1 of 500 kids to go during the summer and experience life as a cadet (7000 applied) national

Certification of completion and acceptance to the national guard engineering program. Selected as a freshman to complete the program

Senior Course Load: Professional Communications, AP Macro, AP Government, AP Physics, AP English 4, AP Calculus AB, Self studying astronautical engineering using MIT open course ware, Advanced Debate, Engineering Design and development

Job- Head Instructor (Only other ones are college grads) at a tutoring place. Teach kids STEM fields such as coding, 3d Design, mathematics, etc. Worked extensive hours taking apart and reassembling the 3D printer after errors.

Computer Science Club- Co founder and VP, organize 20-25 people around projects and give guidance to them about how to fix errors and progress

Robotics Club - Treasurer and Team leader: Led team of 5 people the entire year over the VEX challenge and went to states

Engineering Club- President, discuss and arrange projects for 30+ kids to work on, ie building a 3D printer out of an old projector and disk drive. (My design)

Varsity hockey team: We won regional out of 16 teams, and I was selected to participate by other coaches in our region in the State of Texas All Star game

Varsity Debate: Policy Debate Board member and 2016 debater of the year.
UIL Regional Champion
State of Texas UIL Champion

Natural Helper- Picked 1 of 12 biannually to participate in training to aide pears in case of extreme depression, anxiety, etc.

NHS

JV Lacrosse Team Captain: Eh idrc about this one, was a very young captain but still its JV

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what are your demographics? Do you have any hooks?

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@kjake2000 Not really, middle class white male.

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So you turned down to great free education opportunities.

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@NoVADad99 I had ROTC scholarship options at the other schools, so they were fairly free as well

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OP seems to be an outlier for MIT. No national/international level awards and standardized test scores/GPA weren’t great compared to the stereotypical MIT applicant. Just shows that the application process is truly a crapshoot.

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@Hamurtle Actually not as true as you would think, out of the couple hundred of people I have met that are going to be my classmates next year, only one or two had any awards that you mentioned, plus my scores are considered average for MIT as a whole (literally, the mean is a 33)

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what major? lol sorry for the questions, if u don’t wanna answer its cool

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@kjake2000 I’m going to try and major electrical engineering and computer science

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@RoadTriptoCollege2017 I don’t think that commenter was very courteous. I think you have pretty decent stats (you’re right about having the mean MIT score) and from what you are saying, it seems like your ECs were pretty extraordinary as well. Congrats on the acceptances!

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@NoVADad99 Also, the culture of both schools are completely different so I had to take that into consideration when making my choice

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@tripledouble2000 It’s all good, he has a point when I compare myself to some students. But thank you very much!!! :slight_smile: