Man my scores...(questions).

Master0fBalances
Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:11:33 +0000

They know to look at schools in context because your guidance counselor sends (or should send) them a detailed report about what levels of what classes were offered at your high school, as well as hopefully detailed information about you as a student.

Also, if there’s anything you think MIT should know that your guidance counselor might not have written down and/or stressed enough, there are two sections on the application to write about that: the “grading information” section after self-reported coursework, and the “anything else?” (#14) at the very end of the app.

Personally, I used #14 to talk about why I’m taking a computer science course at the local specialized arts and technology high school instead of my school’s AP course.