Letter from parent(s) supporting applying early

Platero
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:30:32 +0000

Yeah, I understand the senior year thingy…actually although I don’t feel challenged or stimulated at my school, what made me decide to apply early is some other reason, special circumstance that doesn’t allow me to stay for senior year. And I know that MIT doesn’t take juniors just because of their personal circumstances or for their convenience. They look for juniors who exhausted local resources, which I haven’t ( I have two more AP or equivalent classes in math and science that I could use next year, and one in music, and maybe psych; probably these classes will not challenge me either but I can neither be sure nor say such things on my app) The point I want them to get is I know I’ll love MIT and take advantage of it, I know I have enough potential to do that (though I might be wrong), but what comes across on my application is maybe "hmm, although she has done well, this student still has classes to take in high school so she should take advantage from another high-school year ", which I can’t!

So becuase I’m a junior, I’ll not really be competing with other applicants, but with myself, the person I’ll be next year. I think I’ll be good at MIT now (again I might be wrong), but they think I’ll be better next year, and I can’t tell them I can’t stay until next year becuase that would completely sound like applying to MIT is for my own convenience. That is why I’m so desperate to tell them “I WANT TO GO TO MIT NOW!” but I guess there’s nothing I can do now.

Thank you everyone!