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You will never know if you do not apply. There is no harm in it. If you do plan on attending MIT though I would try and get your GPA as close to a 4.0 as possible.

MIT is one of the best schools for Computer Science in North America among other things so there are a lot of brilliant people applying there which means you are applying against them and there are only so many student slots per year.

Since your only 16 I think you have a few years to get your grades up.

I'm not sure if you know this but MIT also offers all their coursework for free as well as lectures and notes from classes. You can even take their tests. I know this doesn't really help because it doesn't get you a degree but its cool thing to look at and see the kinda things you would be learning and what kind of stuff they expect you to know before you apply.

Schools in North America require you to be competent in the English language and if you are foreign you usually have to take a language test as well.

Thanks for all the answer!

@Promit I guess so, but let's say, I really liked what I read . Anyway, I think I'll just have to actually do something the next years.

@Code Fox Aww, damn it . Well I hope I can raise it next year by working a bit more. What GPA is considered good? (And is this site (http://www.foreigncredits.com/Resources/Grade-Conversion/) reliable on it's conversions?) And are only the GPAs of the "normal" grades" considered or also those of the bacalaureates? ... And do I get something from doing international bacalaureates or is this completely useless?

@Tom Sloper Yeah, I will really need to work on my grades next year. I'm living pretty well in a pretty wealthy family, in a pretty wealthy region, around pretty wealthy people, so I was kind of "protected" from the "outside" in my "bubble" for my whole lifetime. Also a few years ago I easily got really really good GPAs without working a bit, so I kept on doing so and ended up dropping...

@DerekL Wow, all the material being free is kind of cool

@thatguyfromthething Thing is I'm probably the most boring guy ever. I listed pretty much all my hobbies above, and I only have two of them... I also never had to really work hard to achieve or get something (Even when I was sick for a year I didn't get any drawbacks from it - Not in school, not in my social life, nowhere.), so there isn't happening much.

Also, would anyone mind explaining the US's high school system to me? I heard so much about "AP Classes" and all that stuff, and wondered if it also exists in France? At least I never had any options to take any "extra courses" in my high school, and the "normal" courses are all imposed. You can't really choose yourself (Next year we're going to specify our path a bit though, since everyone has to choose either the scientific, "business"-like, or literature path. But it only changes the amount of certain hours, and doesn't really removes them.)

Kind regards

Also, would anyone mind explaining the US's high school system to me? I heard so much about "AP Classes" and all that stuff, and wondered if it also exists in France? At least I never had any options to take any "extra courses" in my high school, and the "normal" courses are all imposed. You can't really choose yourself (Next year we're going to specify our path a bit though, since everyone has to choose either the scientific, "business"-like, or literature path. But it only changes the amount of certain hours, and doesn't really removes them.)

AP stands for advance placement. It's pretty much just an advanced version of the course for people that understand the material better and are ahead of the normal class. The AP classes that are available depend on the school and the amount of students there that can take it. Some schools also offer college classes for early college credits, sometimes in the school and sometimes you go to a college class a few times a week at the actual college.

When I was in highschool our school offered AP classes for English, math, chemistry and physcis.

Also here is a link for MIT's open course stuff.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm