Asian and nonspectacular EC's, possible?

jamsmad
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:28:00 +0000

I don’t know. Your numbers seem strong and compared to me your an EC all-star. For comparison my EC’s consisted of three varsity sports, NO community service, and three years of NHS… that’s it. I’m not sure how the admissions considers kids who do sports all the time so don’t really have much time for other stuff but yeah, that’s all I had and I got accepted.

I’ve always assumed my essay was a part of me getting into MIT (I was very proud of it). Mine wasn’t about math/science too, it was about a history paper I wrote and how the research affected me.