Possible for me to get into MIT with these low SAT score...has it been done no hook.

<p>Is it possible for me to get into MIT (Engineering) with my stats. Emphasis on my low SAT scores.</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT Verbal: 650</li>
<li>SAT Math: 750</li>
<li>SAT Writing: 680</li>
<li>SAT Total: 2080</li>
<li>SAT II: 770 Chem 760 Math 680 Physics</li>
<li>ACT:</li>
<li>AP/IB taken/scores: 4:Chem and Physics B</li>
<li>GPA weighted:4.46</li>
<li>GPA unweighted:</li>
<li>Rank or % estimate: <10%</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Great</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Great</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Great</li>
<li>Hook (if any): 1st generation?</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: NY</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: M</li>
<li>Legacy Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Recruited Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Important ECs:
Math Team 3 years-varsity- 1st in the county
Science NHS 2 years- science team participant; tutor
Spanish NHS 2 years- tutor; volunteer
Flag Football 3 years
Asian Cultural Club 3 years
Volunteering 4 years- veterans home, retirement home, YMCA
Tutoring 4 years for math, science, history, english, spanish (through Guidance)
Medicine club 2 years</li>
</ul>

<p>Also, I take the most rigorous classes available.</p>

<p>Also applying to:</p>

<p>Northwestern, JHU, Penn, Duke, Cornell, Rice, UMich, Georgetown, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Chicago, Emory, UC LA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Cooper Union, UVa</p>

<p>Link me to your thread and ill surely return the favor. Thanks a lot.</p>

<p>25% of applicants have scores below the range posted for MIT, so of course there is a chance with scores below avg. I would be more concerned about your EC’s, it is hard to tell how you look in this area from what you have posted.</p>

<p>[MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml)</p>

<p>Probably depends on conveying a shining personality in your essays/letters of rec. =) Definitely possible if you’re a compassionate, enthusiastic person with a smoldering love for learning. Good luck!</p>

<p>it all depends on whether you and MIT “fit.”</p>

<p>read the admissions blogs and “what MIT is looking for” to see if that kind of fits you.</p>

<p>it can be done!</p>

<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Info For Schools & Counselors: What We Look For In Applicants](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/schools/what_we_look_for/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/schools/what_we_look_for/index.shtml)</p>

<p>I don’t see why you wouldn’t get in. I’ve looked at their statictics before on collegeboard.com, and I think your SAT scores are in the middle 50%. The scores are really good, in my opinion. Your math score is good especially, as well as your other science scores, which is really important to them. Good luck!</p>

<p>^ IMHO, i think blairb91 has yet to experience the epiphany that looking through chance threads induces on most people :slight_smile: The OP definitely has a chance, but like many other applicants, it will come down to the essays and how well he is able to present his unique character to the admissions office. Also, a bit of luck helps. Also, OP, don’t worry about your SAT scores too much. I think that’s a fair score and, ideally, it is used as a way to see if you can handle the work and see how your GPA matches up with other ppl’s GPAs. Not all schools are equal (unfortunately) and so a STANDARD is needed to get a sense of your academic accomplishment. Of course, this is the IDEAL admissions world… and I like to think that MIT is one of few schools that practice admissions as close to the ideal case a possible :). GL… sorry for the rambling</p>

<p>Finally…I have a partner on CC who applied to 17 colleges. We can be 17 college application buddies class2009college.</p>

<p>Don’t worry, you won’t get flat out rejected based on that scores ALONE, there has to be other factors contributing too.</p>

<p>I like your ECs; they are few and focused.
(or maybe I am biased, coz, tutoring has been my sole EC)</p>

<p>Thanks everyone for being so generous with the chances.</p>

<p>SYNCHROTRON, haha we should be 17 college apps buddies.</p>

<p>If anyone has anything to add, feel free to post it. Thanks again.</p>

<p>yamakira-</p>

<p>Are you speaking in regards to the “I suck” epiphany or the “no one has a chance!” epiphany? :)</p>

<p>i had an obsession with MIT all last year during my junior year until i took the SAT and knew I would never go…so then I had this little “I’m still going to try” syndrome for a while early in my senior year, talked to almost every professor in the engineering department, talked to the dean, talked to director of minority recruitment, i practically lived at MIT for a while. I even did the DELVE program during my junior year taking AP Psych (scored a 4 on the exam; blah. horrible!) I stayed in my cousins dorm throughout the summer while he attended his summer courses; it was awesome! Then it came time for the interview, I had already my essays and everything. I knew MIT was a fit when the interviewer said, “you know what, that’s exactly what an MIT student would say”, I stopped dead short and a tear came down my cheek. I was shocked. Then I looked over my options, although i am in the top 5% of my class there was NO WAY I would get in with a 1650. Even though I slaved over my essays, and went through with the interview, I know I wouldn’t be able to handle the rejection so I flaked on January 1st and decided not to apply. I kinda regret it but at the same time; I wouldn’t of got in, i had to face the music either now or when I got my rejection letter. I wish you guys luck, and I am definetly considering applying as a transfer! Good Luck again, and have confidence, (I’ve been obsessive about my SAT score so much that I didn’t apply but my case is entirely hopeless, but maybe it happened for a reason; can’t wait until April!)</p>

<p>Silly superwoman
You should have applied.
You say you could not have taken the rejection, yet you say you would never have gotten in, so what’s the difference? Nothing ventured, nothing gained - all because you did not want to say you got rejected and prefer to say you would have been rejected.
But thanks for sharing your story, and I hope others don’t follow your lead.
You might have been accepted and now you’ll never know.
Now, if you felt that if you HAD been accepted you would not have been equipped for the task of keeping up, then you were correct in pulling your app and not silly at all.
I wish you the best in your transfer plans.</p>

<p>Yes, I realize that now. But I think it’s meant to be, I don’t think I would have been able to keep up with MIT. I just loved the atmosphere & the people but I don’t think I would have loved the work. I hope others don’t follow in my lead either (great point). Thanks! (I have a strong feeling I won’t transfer at all; eventually being happy somewhere)</p>

<p>Sometimes our “gut” knows what is right, even when our heart and head tell us something else. Maybe not so silly after all.</p>

<p>I hope you get accepted to a school you really love.</p>

<p>You can’t get in if you don’t apply but I see how it is easier to bow out than have to face a rejection letter if it was really that improbable to be accepted. I am glad you were able to make a decision to move on so you can start thinking about other schools.</p>

<p>SAT scores certainly aren’t everything. But truthfully what you’re lacking in scores has to be made up for in other parts of the application. I know a guy who got in with a 2130. But he had done alot of computer hardware and software stuff and won a national science fair, and he even got deferred EA. I even know a guy who got in with a 1900, no hook, but he has done extensive (reallllly extensive) work with computers. Mainly the people who get in here with lower SAT scores and no hook are ridiculously passionate about something. I’m a current freshman, btw.</p>

<p>@ kcb452</p>

<p>That was extremely comforting to know.</p>

<p>My stats aren’t stellar either, but I still applied.</p>

<p>I have a feeling that the blogs are wat ‘upped’ are willingness to ‘give MIT a try’ and apply.</p>