MIT, Stanford, Harvard: Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>How do you get 6 grade points for a class?</p>

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<p>What is up with you? When you invent a time machine, contact me. :)</p>

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<p>thanks weasel and equilibrium. brought up good points</p>

<p>weasel, I would appreciate some more advice on how to highlight my unique accomplishments. </p>

<p>I also participated in a personality development program in India twice called “Seven Keys to Success”. Both times I got first place/outstanding participant. Is this worth mentioning?</p>

<p>About the internship and volunteering in India, would it be sufficient to list them in the summer activities section? In India I also worked with Rotary international and administered the polio vaccine to rural children as part of the Polio Pulse program. </p>

<p>The MIT application only allows you to list five activites/ ecs that you are involved in school and outside of school. Which five do you think I should put?
I was thinking GT Mentorship, Bollywood Bonanza club, Chess club because I founded it, orchestra because it is the activity to which I have been most dedicated for the longest time, and one more?</p>

<p>appreciate your advice :)</p>

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<p>any more chances/advice?</p>

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<p>I’m not very familiar with the MIT application, but is it possible to list internships and summer activities as part of your 5 ECs? If so, that’s what I’d do–list the four activities I mentioned along with orchestra. If there’s a separate section that asks how you spent your summers, then do what you were thinking earlier. As far as chess club goes, I’m not sure I would list it unless you have a rating above 1500. If you have an impressive rating, mention it. MIT wants students who like to “get their hands dirty”, so you should pick activities that are consistent with that. As far as the “Seven Keys to Success” thing goes, list it in the awards section and if you write an essay about India, mention it there too.</p>

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<p>thanks for your advice!</p>

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<p>Does anybody have any advice as to what should be put in the “additional information” section of the common app?</p>

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<p>I used that section to do a few things: report my AMC and AIME scores, list ECs that didn’t fit in the EC portion of the Common App, and describe my research. Just throw in whatever impressive info you didn’t already list.</p>

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<p>Are you serious?</p>

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<p>Of the three, I think that you will get into MIT, but your chances are incredible at all three. Best of luck to you!
Chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/562816-sarah-palin-doesn-t-stand-chance-do-i.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/562816-sarah-palin-doesn-t-stand-chance-do-i.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You’ll get into Harvard.</p>