Friday, August 5, 2011

Ninth Grade trying to get into MIT?

MIT regularly turns down 4.0 students and valedictorians. If your GPA is all you have going for you, you won't get in. If you can find a way to really impress them, your GPA won't matter. MIT limits you to listing 5 activities or less, and you really want to make those count - like patents, original research, publications, inventions, etc. You WILL be competing against a lot high school students who have already accomplished that. The activities you have planned won't make you stand out. And most students applying to college are a year ahead in math - most applying to the top schools are 1-3 years ahead in math.

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