Advice to anyone applying to MIT
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One piece of advice for anyone who's applying to him. It is to truly be yourself capture things that you're passionate about. Don't pretend to be interested in something or not. So really showcase your true interests and the things that you truly like to dio. Not just your parents, not just your teacher's not just your friends, but all those people and even more if you can think of them, make the essay truly personal so that someone could read the essay without your name on it and know that you wrote it. Because if it's really generic, it's not going to stand out in the application pool and they're not. You're not going to stand out as a candidate to get into whatever school you're applying to. Obviously, grades and test scores and G P A is really important when applying to school. Essays, letters of recommendation and extracurriculars are also very important. So make sure to showcase some of those items as well, especially extracurriculars, because those are what really sets you apart as an individual, and my last piece of advice is when you're talking about your extracurriculars, don't choose things that you did for only a year or only a semester. Rather choose two or three activities that you did over the course of four years. Or maybe since you were really little but activities that you truly made an impact in. For example, if you're on a sports team and you're a captain and you're changing the program and you're leading your team to a conference championship for state championship, talk about that, don't talk about you know, you were on the track team for a year and then you quit. That's not really something that people will hear about. It's not impressive that you were in twenty different clubs, all for just a little period of time, because college admissions officers will think that you're not serious about these activities, and they will think that you might be spreading yourself too thin. Rather, they just want to hear about the select two or three activities that you did over the course of your entire high school career.