<p>Hello everyone
I have a really high chance to get an amazing internship at the UNITED NATIONS! I’m so happy! However i was wondering if this, can make up for my freshman and sophomore years. In my freshman year i didn’t do any EC (besides ~50h of volunteering) and in my sophomore year I studied some russian on my own, MUN and again some volunteering. The reason for this is that i had to spend many hours each day studying since the courses in my high school were in english and I barely spoke a word of it (before I used to attend an public Italian school.). Now I’m a senior and I don’t have that issue anymore. Right now my ECs are:
-MUN, with an executive position (secretary, planning to be either deputy secretary general or secretary general next year)
-Yearbook
-Journalism
-Volleyball
-Table Tennis & Badminton
-I might join the student council
For volunteering so far:
-I’m organizing a trip to help building an hospital in a small village in Ethiopia
-I volunteer in a orphanage in the weekends
Also:
-I speak Italian, English and French and I’m studying Spanish and Russian. I’m also planning to restart learning German (I studied it in middle school, however i couldn’t continue studying it in high school since it was not offered)</p>
<p>Admissions will totally understand the fact that not knowing English makes academics harder and leaves less time for ECs. It’s awesome that you seem pretty fluent now, and I think the things that you’ve listed as ECs now are pretty awesome. </p>
<p>Congratulations on the UN MIT is hard to get into, but I don’t think you’re at a disadvantage</p>
<p>Thanks PiperXP! I was also wondering, since I’m planning on majoring in course 6-7, will I be at a disadvantage since i do not have STEM ECs? I live in a developing country and there is no way of doing anything STEM related (besides medical volunteering for organizations like M</p>
<p>Nope. Admissions looks at what you did compared to the opportunities you had. I didn’t have access to (or even know about) STEM opportunities, and I got in. The fact that you’re doing what you can - edX courses and learning Python - is awesome. It shows Admissions exactly what they need to know: that you’ll make the best of the opportunity you have.</p>
<p>I do have one suggestion. I suggest doing a project that shows that you know how to code in Python. It could help you to have a portfolio. Program a small tool, or a game, or something. It doesn’t have to be epic, but it’ll help you to have something interesting that you did with Python :P</p>
<p>Remember, any internship by itself will mean nothing.
How will your overall application be stronger because of how you’ve grown and what you learned in that internship?</p>
MIT is hard to get into, but I don’t think you’re at a disadvantage</p>