My high school offered 8 AP classes, and I took 3 (Government, English, and US History).
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I was going to OSU on a full scholarship with a stipend! Woo! So even though I had almost straight As, I was ranked 11 in a class of 530 because some other kids had figured out that if they only took honors classes and had 4 or 5 study halls a day, they could get straight As and be at the top of the class. I had also taken regular geometry and algebra II, then switched to honors for precalculus and calculus. Band and choir were held during the day, so I got band and choir grades, which were obviously As. I should also mention that my school (which was a decent suburban public high school - not awesome, not terrible) had weighted grades. I was going to OSU on a full scholarship. So during fall of my senior year, between state band competition, show week for the fall play, the Macy’s parade trip, and Christmas shows for the show choir, I never got around to scheduling an interview with my EC. I did other stuff too: counseled 5th graders about drugs, NHS, quiz team, drama club, Latin club, all-Ohio choir, girls’ state… you would sort of suspect that I was doing it for my resume, except that I obviously wasn’t gunning for the Ivies. I was the captain of the 40-member color guard in a marching band which went to the Fiesta Bowl parade, Orange Bowl parade, and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. I made the elite show choir as a junior - the only girl to make it her junior year. I made all 8 shows in the extremely competitive drama department, and even had lead roles in 6 of the 8. The one thing I always had going for me was that I was very involved in the performing arts at my high school. But there are a lot of people who think that it is a bad score, and there are certainly a lot of people who think you can’t get into MIT with a 1430/2150, especially if your math score is sub-700. NOTE:I do not personally think that a 1430 SAT I (which I guess would be, say, a 2150 or so now) is a bad score. Good news: I aced the PSAT (80V, 74M, 80W) and got National Merit.
I didn’t even really care what I got on the SAT, since OSU accepted the ACT, and I wasn’t serious about applying to any east coast schools anyway.
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So - and feel free to admire the logic here - I took the SAT on October 14 my senior year as practice for the PSAT on October 17.
The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a National Merit scholar, so I knew I’d have to do really well on the PSAT. I was dead-set on attending Ohio State University, because I’m from the Columbus, Ohio, area and knew I could probably get a full ride. I am a terrible person, blah blah.īesides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of other factors going against me. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and then make sure my ex-boyfriend knew all about it. Sure, it was part of it - I knew MIT had a Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, and I knew that’s what I wanted to major in, and, hey, if one of the professors in the department wrote awesome, popular books, it sounded like a good place to be.īut more importantly, my freshman year in high school I briefly dated a senior boy whose only ambition was to attend MIT and major in aero/astro. On the back cover, it said that Pinker was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I’ve also always been a voracious reader, so I snuck it out of her room and read it. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. But today, I realized that my own high school experience was so far removed from what most people judge to be MIT-worthy that it might be worth sharing.įirst, I’ve always been psyched about brains. This doesn’t always seem to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest knowing you’re competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to make people unsure of their own merits. I have been known to mention interviews and essays and extracurricular activities. My first response is generally to spout one-liners about passion and hard work. In my various unofficial capacities as a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how, precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. (Woo, who’s been watching too much Law and Order this summer?)
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