在另一帖里有人说今年USACO camper 3人被MIT defer，包括一个2x USACO camp, 1x mop，不知道是不是这个人。问题出在哪？GPA硬伤，还是小中男原罪？小中女稳录吧？
Demographics:
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Gender: Male
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Race/Ethnicity: East Asian
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Region: Competitive
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Type of School: Large public
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Hooks: First generation for MIT
Intended Major(s):
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Math, Physics, or CS
ACT/SAT/SAT II/APs:
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SAT: 1570 (770 RW, 800 Math)
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APs: 5s on Calc AB/BC, Stats, Micro, Lang, Chinese, Bio, Physics C: Mech; 4 on World History
UW/W GPA and Rank:
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GPA: 4.23 W is what is on my school transcript, which weights my Makerspace elective very disproportionately, includes non-core subjects, and doesn't include my college coursework. If I recalculate it, I get a 4.50 W.
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UW and Rank isn't provided by school. If I calculate my UW, its a 3.79. I got 6 B's in the following.
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9th grade: English, Makerspace elective, US History
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10th grade: AP Bio (but 5 on AP), Makerspace elective, World History
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11th grade: All A's, 4.6 W
Coursework
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Highest possible rigor at my school, i.e, nearly all AP/college-level courses
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9th grade: Honors English, Makerspace Elective, Honors Chinese I, Honors Algebra II, AP CSA, Honors US History, AP Chem
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10th grade: Honors English II, Makerspace Elective, Honors Chinese II, Honors Pre-Calc, Honors World History, AP Bio, Real Analysis (not DE, took at state school, but I received a transcript)
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11th grade: AP Lang, Makerspace Elective, Mobile App Development Elective, AP Chinese, AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, AP Stats, APUSH, Graph Theory (not DE, took at state school, but I received a transcript)
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12th grade: Multi, DiffEq, Abs Alg, AP Lit, Makerspace Elective, Post AP Chinese
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Note I have basically 0 freedom over my coursework. Hence this is the highest rigor possible at my school. I took additional college courses that I have a transcript for, which no one else at my hs has since the university typically does not allow high schoolers to take courses.
Awards and Honors:
Academic:
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One of (MOP, USACO Camp, Physics Camp, MIT PRIMES-USA)
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Another one of (MOP, USACO Camp, Physics Camp, MIT PRIMES-USA)
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Multiple large national individual awards in math (ARML, HMMT, PUMaC, CMIMC, MMATHS, SMT, etc).
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Large national science fair award
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National Merit semifinalist
Non-academic:
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Scholastic Regional HM in one of the writing categories
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State creative writing contest award
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Regional creative writing contest award
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PVSA Gold
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Another state creative writing contest award
Activities (for MIT)
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Prestigious undergraduate research program, published paper in subject area
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Founder/president of pretty big nonprofit in STEM, visible impact
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Co-founder of another pretty big nonprofit in STEM, visible impact
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On a well-regarded team in one of the STEM fields, described team awards
Summer Programs (for MIT)
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olympiad camps that I already mentioned in awards
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prestigious stem-adjacent program (3% acceptance rate). it's on the mit website, but it isn't one of the research programs.
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prestigious stem program (5% acceptance rate). it's on the mit website, but it isn't one of the research programs.
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humanities program (not that prestigious, idk this was just for fun)
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self-study subjects -- these are backed up by one of my research mentor LORs
Essays/LORs/Other:
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Supplements (9/10-10/10): I think these are very strong based on feedback from a past MIT AO
LORS:
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Calc Teacher (10/10): Best student he ever had
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English Teacher (6-7?/10): Mentioned I'm very strong at writing, but we don't have a very personal relationship
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Counselor: (5?/10), just a generic good letter, she said the same thing for everyone at my school
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Research mentor 1: (10/10)
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Research mentor 2: (10/10)
Decision: Deferred from MIT EA.
