OK MIT, Princeton, Harvey Mudd, Cornell, Franklin Olin

aviatrix10
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:02:21 +0000

I think the important thing to remember here is that numbers aren’t everything. I had a 1460 on the SAT and pretty much all my math scores are worse than my english scores. I didn’t take the AMC, and I didn’t do math team. However, you have demonstrate that you will ADD something to the MIT campus. MIT, im sure, could have their pick of the 1600s with four years of USAMO, etc. etc. But, they still accept the rather average(compared to the rest of the pool) kids like me than can add something else besides amazing math skills. Cause that gets boring after a while. So enough with the fuss about where numbers place you, and focus on things like running that are your extracurriculars that you are good at and enjoy. I don’t know for sure what got me into MIT. I’m sure I will never know. But I DO know that it sure wasn’t my scores, all though they might have gotten me through the first weeding out part. I also know that I wrote about my ecs in my essays and about how they’ve affected my life: Science Olympiad and aviation mostly. And the interview is important as well. Focus on your personality, not your scores. Because your scores are the same as about 5000 other people applying.