<p>I was just wondering if MIT admission counselors graduated from MIT or have engineering/math backgrounds. The reason I ask is that a math person might view essays differently than, say, a humanities major.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>The Dean of Admissions, Stu Schmill, is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from MIT. Matt McGann has a BS in Management from MIT. I think Ben has a humanities degree from a small liberal arts college. Not sure about the others. My guess is that most do not have MIT degrees or engineering/math backgrounds.</p>
<p>^Ben is no longer with the admissions office -- he took a high-up position at said small liberal arts college.</p>
<p>I'm running through everybody in my head, and I think about half of the admissions officers have MIT degrees and half don't. Still, they're all MIT admissions officers, and so they're actively trying to all read essays in the same sorts of ways. At any rate, your application is read by more than one person, so the odds are good that one or more of your readers will have a science or engineering background.</p>
<p>What Mollie said. The MIT admission team seems especially careful about developing a joint sense of what they are looking for, and if there is any special talent situation that shows up in an application, the evidence of special talent is referred to relevant faculty members. McGreggor Crowley (also an MIT alumnus) gave examples in his recent talk in my town of math, music, sports, and other talents that applicants bring to MIT, and MIT is interested in all of those talents.</p>
<p>Also, every year MIT hires an admissions counselor or two from among the graduating seniors (it's a position with a fair amount of turnover, so that doesn't mean that the admissions committee is growing by a person or two every year! :)).</p>
<p>Hey guys i know i am posting it in the wrong place but my problem has made me mad…</p>
<p>I am an Indian Student, qualified DOEACC A Level, to which WES gives 1 year undergraduate equivalence in US.
Now please tell me what’ll i apply for freshman or what… plz help me out</p>
<p>@hiker1989,
Unless you’ve matriculated in another college or university as a freshman, qualifying for advanced standing via examination won’t preclude you from applying to MIT’s freshman class.</p>
<p>@CalAlum
The college/university u r referring to ;;; should it be a US college or any other college from any country will b fine.</p>
<p>As per our standard of education, i have completed matriculation & the higher secondary & after that comes DOEACC A Level.</p>
<p>Please help…</p>
<p>most of the team are alums, or at least the critical core are. but even those who aren’t are pretty MIT-ey. in my case, i’m viewed (affectionately) as the office geek (and a strong cultural match for MIT) in many ways, even though i’m not an alum and graduated with a liberal arts degree…</p>