<p>What are the chances that a student with a 3.2 GPA, 0 extracurriculars, and few community service hours get into MIT? This student has an outstanding SAT score and great recommendation letters, in addition to stellar essays. This is merely a hypothetical question.</p>
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<p>not gonna happen, tons of applicants with stellar SAT/GPA/300 hours of community service get rejected</p>
<p>Thank you for the replies.</p>
<p>A school like MIT will probably realize the depth of the student’s intelligence and weigh it against their ability to handle the work as the student does not have a very good gpa. The lack of extracurricular activities will beg the question, so what does the student do with his time? With such a competitive pool of applicants, MIT will find no problem finding and taking another person with the same depth of intelligence who does have a good gpa and does meaningful things with their time out of school. Basically, no.</p>
<p>Thank you Quantifier sir, thou hast extinguished the last shred of hope this hypothetical student had.</p>
<p>I disagree. My friend was accepted two years back with a number of C’s throughout high school (2.8 unweighted), and very few extracurriculars, spending most free time on video games.</p>
<p>However, he made black MOSP, and was accepted to both MIT and Caltech. </p>
<p>But that’s a pretty special case, very smart people could literally spend all their waking hours working on math and not be able to make it to the MOSP, so he wasn’t just your average “intelligent.”</p>