Will this essay guarantee a rejection?

monicathegreat
Tue, 31 Dec 2013 03:42:22 +0000

The high school I attended was small and didn’t offer as many AP’s as I would’ve liked to take. I took the most strenuous courses I could take every year, but I knew my education wasn’t going to stop there in the classroom. I volunteered whenever possible and joined any community service clubs my school offered. When I noticed there wasn’t enough academically driven clubs, I started my own debate group.

My passion for learning drove me to do independent research through MIT OpenCourseWare. I took several courses spanning Psychology, History, Biology, and Computer Programming. I painstakingly put together portfolios of my work to document what I had learned. Because I come from a school where no one has ever been admitted to an Institute as prestigious at MIT it hits close to home what Open CourseWare is doing.

The OpenCourseWare website gives people on opportunity to receive an MIT-caliber education from their own home. MIT set a trend by making their courses available online and now there are universities all across the nation that are following in MIT’s footsteps. Whether I am offered a spot at Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology or not, I will be pursuing an education there. I will be pursuing my education for the rest of my life.

This is my optional essay, am I pushing it? Should I just take out all the MIT super-praise and the whether or not I get accepted shtick?