What can I do to get into MIT?
I'ma rising junior (foreign national living in the United States) , I have all A (it says my gpa is 4.125 including one AP class), I haven't written the SAT yet (let's just say that I SOME HOW got a 730+ in math section)
My school has one official STEM club and it's only for a regional competitions, and I got rejected from that because they said Im in robotics and somehow it will be too much for me. I'm also in VEX v5, (team of 7, a lot of teamwork)I have a regional championship trophy, sportsman ship award in states , got selected and participated in worlds and I will do 2 more years of robotics. Robotics takes a lot of time from me , I'm like staying on school after hours everyday (till 9 pm on bad days). I also did air rifle shooting for a year(participated in a regional championship, didn't get a trophy or nothing), I did a state level math Olympiad (without any training and experience to any olympiads , needless to say I didn't do the best) , I have a IBC in site development from CIW , did some 3d printing in school thats About it for ECs (I'm also in honor roll, and NHS).
I was also stupid enough to think one AP class is enough for me, I could have managed 4 AP classes a year but all of them were History/English and I didn't like them enough. (I took 2 AP classes in 2 years, have a 5 on both of them but that's it, I'm thinking of taking 4 APs in senior). The reason I even participated in robotics was because I liked building and robots. After that everyone told me MIT is the best college for mathematics and robotics. My school doesn't provide much EC other than sports which I'm not good at. My robotics team was also only managed by us (no mentor, most of the team it was first year in VEX and robotics, we did our own fundraising with selling cookies that we bought with our money, but school did give us some money tho). I did take a lot of dual enrollment classes tho. So like ,am I lost cause or can I do ANYTHING to get into MIT, or should I just start looking at other colleges (any help appreciated much).
Posted Jul 9, 2025, 11:19 PM UTC