I used to be a person that refused to leave my comfort zone. My art teacher hated it and constantly pushed me to leave it, to try new things, and to stop being so uptight and detail-oriented. Sophomore winter, I was working on a charcoal piece of the school chapel for my AP portfolio. I had been working for a week, and in his words, I was “stuck”, too fixated on the details to get to the actual piece. He...

My private admissions counselor was Christine Chapman with Chapman Educational Services (http://scchapmaned.com/index.php), and I had formed a relationship with...

I had my art teacher, my junior AP English teacher, and my AP Calculus teacher write my recommendations. All three...

Unless you're truly passionate about robotics, I would skip that - almost every other applicant to MIT is...

Have fun, but learn something/do something in the process. My high school summers were spent...

My college counselor was instrumental in this - he made out a list of colleges...