Class of 2019 - help

DoctorAstro
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 01:33:15 +0000

Ok, so, I recently started my 9th grade year, and it actually started kind of badly because I was on vacation whenever I was supposed to get registered for school, and I even had to leave early in order to get registered on time - meaning Astronomy was already filled up, so I was placed in 3D Art which was one of the three or four classes left I could take.

Anyways, after looking at others’ 9th grade schedules on this site it made my schedule look absolutely terrible. It turns out my school doesn’t offer that many honors classes, and I don’t really know how they deal with AP classes. So there’s one problem.

And that is such a bad problem because my lifelong goal is to get into MIT. Yeah, you’re probably rolling your eyes right now because I seem like one of those people who know they have such low chances yet still make it their goal anyways, but I’m being completely serious. I’ve done a ton of research on the university, and have an idea of the major I’d take there (computer engineering).

I’m new to the whole “take this take that class” sort of thing, and I didn’t even know what the difference was between and undergrad school and a graduate school until a few weeks ago.

So, I have one request: I need help. I don’t really know what to do, and provided I made above a 95 for nearly every subject in middle school (with the exception of 6th grade literature) and was invited to take the ACT in seventh grade (though I got a measly 20, still fretting over that), I want to know what steps I should take to get into a computer and engineering-focused college such as MIT, and if my high school not having a plethora of rigorous classes such as honors chemistry in 9th grade makes a huge difference when it comes to applying for a college.