MIT, Stanford, Harvard: Chances?

Weasel8488
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:46:43 +0000

First, a few suggestions:

Emphasize the following EC’s in your application:
[ul][]Teaching and volunteering in India
[]Internship at University of Houston
[]Bollywood club
[]FBISD GT Mentorship program
[/ul]

These activities are very unique. They’re the activities that adcoms will remember you by. Emphasize them by listing them first on the common app and possibly writing about one of them in your essay. Definitely choose one of them for the question that asks you to briefly describe one of your EC’s.

The rest of your EC’s are good, but they’re boring. Everyone does Mu Alpha Theta. Everyone does debate. Everyone plays an instrument. I’m exaggerating, but the point is that these activities do NOTHING to make you stand out. One exception is if you’re good enough to play in the orchestra at whatever college you attend, but I doubt you’re good enough based on what you listed.

If you package yourself right, I think you’ll be very happy come April. You’re qualified to attend every school on your list. The only question is whether you’re able to stand out in the sea of applicants.