Chance me for MIT

Coloradomama
Mon, 13 Nov 2017 04:10:24 +0000

Because the Beaver Works summer program is very new, I don’t know how much that will help your MIT application.
Paradoxically it may help your application at all the other schools, given the MIT name on your resume.

RSI is a well known and very competitive summer research program housed at MIT, that seems to be helpful
for participants to get into top colleges, but I don’t know how Beaver Works will be viewed, its focused on engineering, here are the details for those that want to learn more.

https://beaverworks.ll.mit.edu/CMS/bw/bwsi

You do have some great extracurriculars and I hope those programs helped you narrow your major choice between engineering, CS, math and physics. As I mentioned above, other top CS program is UIUC, really is stellar, for physics, EE and math as well. If you can stand a large program, like Berkeley, UIUC might be a bit less distracting. UIUC has a lot of students from mainland China and Chinese American students. Not sure if that would be a positive, neutral or negative for you , but
the midwestern flavor would be different than your home state. Its about 2.5 hours from Chicago as well. . There is enough to do at UIUC minus the political protests that seem to be cropping up on the west coast right now.

UCLA is another good choice for CS, if you prefer the west coast.

Cornell U is a very top computer science program as well, if you want to be in a colder climate, with lots of skiing
and hiking close by.