Chances for MIT

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>I made one of these threads as a junior, but now I have all of my stats finalized. So here we go:</p>

<p>School: Competetive Prep School in Pennsylvania</p>

<p>GPA: 4.1 UW 4.27 W
Rank: School doesn’t rank, but I know I’m top 5%.</p>

<p>SAT:
CR - 770
M - 800
W - 720
Combined - 2290 (1570 CR+M)</p>

<p>SAT II:
Physics - 800
Math II - 800
Math I - 800
US History - 770</p>

<p>Activities:
Mathletes
Academic Competition - Varsity Captain
Jazz Band - guitar
Honors Band
Varsity Water Polo - manager
NHS - math tutoring chair
JV Soccer - Captain
JV A Lacrosse - Captain
Club Soccer
Student Council (10th grade) - events chairman</p>

<p>Award/Honors:
Mathletes - top scorer on school’s team
-selected to All-League Team (winner of city Public v. Private Championship)
National Merit Semifinalist
Varsity Letter - Water Polo
AP Scholar w/ Honor
Academic Excellence in Modern Language Award
2007 National Spanish Exam - Bronze Medal
High School Egg Drop Contest - 1st Place
Merit Scholarship to high school</p>

<p>Financial Aid: very important</p>

<p>I want to study engineering, and I’m a white male.</p>

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<p>How do you have a 4.1 unweighted? Isn’t the point of unweighted that you can only go to 4.0?</p>

<p>You’re certainly strong enough academically to be competitive - I’d say it’ll depend on other factors. Your need for financial aid and intended field are irrelevant for admissions purposes (I would say the white male bit pretty much is too, but I sure as hell don’t want to open up that can of worms yet again). Some of your awards, like the National Spanish Exam and the Mathlete stuff, are cool, some of the others (scholarship to high school, NMSemifinalist, AP Scholar with Honors) are a dime a dozen.</p>

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<p>GPA is on a 4.3 scale at my school (4.3 for an A+, 4.0 for an A, 3.7 for an A-, 3.4 for a B+, etc.); that’s how I have a 4.1UW GPA.</p>

<p>Thanks for the response. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Yea, no big awards =/.</p>

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<p>Same here =/</p>

<p>As long as your essays are good, you should have a good shot.</p>

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<p>ummm dude? High school Egg drop contest winner?</p>

<p>I dunno…seems sketchy to me…I hope you’re not putting that on the App</p>

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<p>I’m interested in knowing what this Egg Drop contest is lol.</p>

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<p>Maybe its like the Nobel Prize-winning egg drop of the world! That would be so cool :)</p>

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<p>…only limtied materials are provided for you to build your anti-egg-shattering
container for the egg drop …which makes the egg drop an interesting
problem…
…I remember well the school steps that we covered in egg-spatter
…cool one to put on your ecs… :)</p>

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<p>You basically have to build a contraption of limited size and weight that can prevent an egg from breaking when thrown from a third story window. The contraption that makes it to the ground the fastest while still protecting the egg wins.</p>

<p>Now I’m debating whether or not to put this on my app since so many people are questioning it. Any other input now that I have elaborated on it?</p>

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<p>^^put it on your app…</p>

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<p>lol, it’s funny how schools do “unweighted” GPAs. My school calls its GPA system “a 4.0 system”, but my unweighted GPA is 5.041… I dont think my school understands. lol</p>

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<p>Put it on your app. I think people were just confused as to what it entailed. You may want to write an explanation of it somewhere, though.</p>

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<p>the parallels with early space pod recovery and landing rovers on Mars are
obvious – rapid descent ont he target site and protection fo the contents
—the payload being of limited weight and size…</p>

<p>:)</p>