<p>so throughout high school i was pretty much a jocky kid, wrestled, football, lazy and partied every weekend. ended up with a 3.6 weighted so not bad… got horrible sat 1 scores.
500s on reading
600 on math and since i was told that writing didn’t matter i got a 480 on that.
sat 2 math 2c i got a 620 :/</p>
<p>so now im currently a sophomore in college at the Pennsylvania state university.
i’m currently a an engineering science major. </p>
<p>this summer i was suppose to get an internship at a local engineering firm but had to differ because i grew up in a family restaurant and this past summer my parents and i had decided to go to china as a whole family, which i had never experienced before. I never had the good old fashion family dinner together experience like a lot of people had. So going to china gave me a whole new perspective on life. But a week after i came back, my appendix was infected and i had to go through appendectumy? After that i went through serious depression because i was a firm believer that if i was so sick that i would need surgery than i would rather die. the whole aspect of getting something so serious and so sudden made me realize that anything can happen in an instant. So i spent a whole month by myself just thinking about things in life and realized that thanks to the medical advancements was i able to get such a swift and flawless surgery. So there and then i decided that i would like to change my interest to biomedical engineering so that one day i can help areas like rural china improve on their medical equipments etc. So i did some research and realized that i would like to transfer to MIT because my current school does not offer that major, and it is not too far and not too close from home. As you can see i’m a very family oriented person.</p>
<p>My freshmen year: semester 1
Macro Econ A-
Calc 1 A
English 101 A
Chem 110 A
Chem 111 Lab A-
First year seminar A
18.5 credits 3.87 gpa</p>
<p>Semester 2
Intro to Psych A
Calc 2 A
Calc base Physic 211 B+
Chem 294 (research) A
Chem 112 A
Chem 113 Lab A
Engineering Mech Statics A
20 Credits 3.87 gpa :/</p>
<p>Current Semester
Calc 3
Public speaking
Chem 210 Organics
Chem 294 again
Engineering Dynamics
Calc 220 Matrices
Physics 212
21 credits
Ecs:
Asian students Club vice pres, i weight lift about 10 hours a week, spend about 10 hours more on research, fencing club, and chancellors leadership club. </p>
<p>Awars : just Deans list :/</p>
<p>im also currently studying for the physics sat 2 exam as i read that you need 2 subject tests to be eligible to apply for transfer at MIT. </p>
<p>so as you can see i spent a lot of time and effort to build up my resume and stuff, and really don’t have much time to do anything else. College has really changed my life, i’ve lost my partying ways ever since my freshmen year. </p>
<p>so now my my main question is this, Should i even bother to apply to MIT this spring? i read a lot of ppl’s resumes in this forum and found that almost everybody is as good or if not better than me. I mean, the only reason i want to write this post was just to know if there is any chance at all for me to get accepted? </p>
<p>oh and um a brief history of myself, i moved to america at the age of 7, my parents never even graduated middle school in china. I grew up in a large city where there are a lot of violence and i was once a really bad person in my youth year. Fights, suspensions, stealing, hood life. An then i was obese too… i was about 160 in 5th grade lol. I think my max was 245 at 10th. Then i lost a lot of weight and went down to 190 at senior grad. oh and also because we were immigrants (US citizens now) i ended up moving a lot. I think i went through 5 different school districts from the time i came to the US till graduation.</p>