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That’s not exactly what I said. I have no discipline in studying as of now, and it’s not my school’s fault. It’s definitely mine, I’m just lazy. And my school isn’t easy either. However, that said, I still have good grades, hopefully good enough to someday get me into MIT, and I’m working on my discipline now because there’s probably no way I could survive in any college without studying. And I should think that MIT courses are more advanced than AP courses :D</p>
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If you’re accepted, it means you have the necessary intelligence/knowledge to succeed at the college - as long as you apply yourself, and by that I mean study. Ad. officers can’t exactly see if you had discipline or not - many people are extremely involved in ECs and get 4.0’s without studying, have had an experience-filled life, and write great essays and are accepted. These people usually find that in MIT they’ll need to study and form study habits, something they didn’t need to do in high school. This is testimony to the fact that MIT is [way] more difficult than school.</p>
<p>I doubt you need discipline in high school in order to get accepted to MIT. As long as you can get the necessary grades, it doesn’t matter if you spent your whole life studying or not a second (the former would negatively impact you, actually, because people who have nothing but good numbers on their application are almost never accepted.) However, you will need to evolve in MIT - probably forming study habits and such. I read a blog on the MIT website about a first-year undergrad there having to study at MIT, whereas in high school he never really had to, and merely went over stuff quickly before test-taking and got great grades. Can’t find the post, though. MIT’s different and harder. There’s no denying that.
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