Am I on track for MIT honors?

MStocksl
Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:34:07 +0000

i wouldn’t be so confident, for several reasons

lots of people are deferred or rejected with similar or better stats. i was deferred with similar academic stats, but they mean nothing if you don’t have interesting extracurriculars. i’m sure tons of MIT students played sports 4 years, were student body president, and have won musical awards. if you don’t seem genuinely interested in something, i don’t know that ECs are going to do anything for you. MIT-caliber ECs are like competing in national science fairs, that kind of stuff. not that you HAVE to do that, but compared to that kind of thing “student body president” doesn’t look all that great. and please don’t take this the wrong way.

summary: your academic stats are good, but unfortunately they don’t guarantee admission unless you have great ECs. which you didn’t really focus on in your post.

but then again, i don’t know any more than you do. this has just been my experience.

also, MIT honors?