Graduating Early, MIT chances?

classicalguitar
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:32:35 +0000

Ok, so here’s what I’ve got. I skipped Junior year btw.

Also Applying to: Stanford, Cornell, CMU, and VT

Race: White Male
GPA: 3.9 (unweighted), 4.3 (weighted)
SAT: CR-740 M-750 W-680
SAT2: Chem-770 Math2- 750

Senior Class Load:
-AP Chem
-BC Calc
-AP English Language
-Physics Honors
-AP Government
-APUSH
-English 12 (online)

Extracurriculars-
-ran half marathons to raise money for children with cancer (10th/12th grade)
-Tae Kwon Do, since I was 6, testing for my third degree black belt in January
-Mountain Bike competitvely during the summer
-1st place in virginia state science/engineering fair, in Energy and transportation, for a project on building pigment complexes in dye sensitized solar cells.
-advanced guitar ensemble (9th and 10th grade)
-organized fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s hospital at my Tae Kwon Do School, raised 5000 or so dollars.
-gold medals on national latin exams (1,2, and AP)
-mountain bike competitively during the summer
-build analog audio electronics (mostly sound effect modules and guitar pedals). Working on plans for a modular synthesizer.

Random stuff:
-self studied AP psychology freshman year, got a 5
-skipped 2 years of latin, from 2 to 5(AP) and got a 4 on the AP exam
-I have 4 brothers, wrote about it in one of my essays

Im sure I have other stuff i forgot, but this covers almost all of it.