<p>SAT: 2340 (790 V, 750 M, 800 W)
ACT: 34
SATII: Don’t believe it if you don’t want to, but I completely forgot about dec. SAT II’s I signed up for and overslept that morning. I am going to take the January one. (Math, Physics, Lit, probably)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.1x - I can pull off good grades if I try. I’ve just been lazy. This year I have mostly A’s and a couple B’s.</p>
<p>Most of my EC is drama-theatre stuff. I usually play one of the leading roles in plays and in some of musicals(can’t sing to save my life).</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m lazy, but teachers like me because I speak a lot during class discussions. Actually that’s partly how I managed to keep my GPA over 3.0 with all those papers I turned in super late, as in a month(or two) late- they like me and usually cut me some slack.</p>
<p>Oh, and I’m a full IB diploma candidate, and a white male in NE.</p>
<p>I already have couple state schools as safety(although I haven’t applied yet) and MIT is my dream school. I had an interview with them and it went well. I’m sorta hoping my grades this year and eccentric(yeah whatever I admit) personality would help.</p>
<p>dude, u dont got a prayer for MIT, sorry to break it to u, but i don’t think there are gonna take u even though you are probably ridicuously bright as shown by your scores.</p>
<p>MIT != slacker school. Unless if you have some incredible brilliance that you’ll show through your essays and interview, I don’t think so. Sorry man.</p>
<p>Argh, oh well. Is there any other school I can apply with that GPA?</p>
<p>I think the test scores run in my family. My sister beat me on both SAT and ACT, and I think she got 235 on her PSAT. She’s attending a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>I’d suggest attending a less competitive school right now, then trying to transfer. BUT only if you promise yourself that you will really apply yourself and focus on your schoolwork.</p>
<p>Look up other engineering schools like Rose-Hulman and RPI and such.</p>
<p>It would have been better if you had started this a while ago, but better late than never. </p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is a reach because of your GPA but I think worth applying to. </p>
<p>Here are some other possibilities and their application deadlines:</p>
<p>RPI - January 3rd - get the application in, transcript can follow
** You have plenty of time to get this app in if you start it. You really should look at their website. **
Case Western - January 15
U of Rochester - January 20
Rose-Hulman - March 1 </p>
<p>Rose-Hulman is very highly ranked in engineering. </p>
<p>You may also want to look at public institutions such as UW Madison and U MN - Twin Cities. </p>
<p>Your midyear grades will be considered, so <em>not</em> being lazy would be a plan.</p>
<p>Why would you ever want to go to MIT is you are a slacker? I would consider myself diligent and I still wonder if I can handle the course load at MIT.</p>
<p>Anyway, Rose Hulman is number 1 in several engineering fields. Also, there is a school in New England called Olin that is highly competetive but relatively eccentric. If you write some outstanding essays you could theoretically get in to some of these schools. For MIT though, you would want to interview and that has passed. </p>
<p>Heh sorry guys I didn’t know how competitive Rose Hulman was. I decided to throw it in there without knowing much about it except that lots of engineering majors mention it. Mibad.</p>
<p>Respectfully disagree, theoneo. Rose-Hulman admits 70% - so there is a chance. Also, only 67% of their students were in the top 10% of their class. This is the important number for the OP, because it implies that they are willing to take a chance on bright slackers at least some of the time. OP will be able to submit 2 and 3rd quarter grades so the turnaround in GPA will be obvious.</p>
<p>i think you’d be guaranteed admissions for cooper union. This school places a lot of emphasis on SAT score and it’s tuition free/ NYC/ full of smart people. You’d fit in well here.</p>