Currently, I am involved in a program offered by my school district (which is in a small rural/suburban area) that allows me to receive my Associate’s Degree from my local Community College.I along with 24 others in my district were accepted into the program that lasts both Junior and Senior Year. The coursework is set and cannot be changed but all of the classes are college level. When I was accepted into this, I was accepted into the Regional Governor’s School too but decided to take the Early College Route. Did this hurt my chances of applying? Or would this have little effect on the application since I took College classes and not AP.
Here are our courses:
Junior Year Curriculum (so far all A’s): Music Appreciation, College Chemistry, College Precalculus, US History, College Composition (writing intensive), College Success Skills, and Concepts of Personal & Community Health.
Senior Year Curriculum: General College Physics, Survey of World Lit., Applied Calculus, US Government, Intro to Computer Applications and Concepts, Religions of the World, and Principals of Public Speaking
It’s not totally uncommon for MIT applicants to take many or all of their classes at local colleges or universities, especially those in areas like yours, where the home high school doesn’t provide enough challenging courses. It certainly won’t hurt your application – you are going out of your way to find challenging courses for yourself, which is a good thing.
Well, the application was finished weeks ago.
There is not much you can do now whether or not you mentioned the things you wanted to mention.
Decisions are out of our hands now. Just focus on schoolwork and scholarships until decisions are out in late March.
It’s hard, I know, but there’s no use getting verification from people over the internet.
Well, I mean, presumably you decided to take the postsecondary courses because you thought they would be more challenging than courses at your high school, whether or not you feel they’re challenging enough?
Just in case any seniors who already sent in their applications are reading this thread, @Korcha is NOT corrrect. It’s not too late to realize that there are things that you wish you had put into your application. The February Updates form is the perfect place too add things that you’d like the admissions commity to know.
I’m a current junior at MIT and I took all my classes in 11th and 12th grade at the University of Minnesota. The program at the University of Minnesota seems a little different than your program but my impression from interacting knowing a number of other people who spent a year or two taking classes at the University of Minnesota is that MIT takes considerably more such students than Harvard (granted I think MIT is also just easier to get into for technical students). That being said I don’t think college admissions officers properly discount for how much harsher college classes are graded than high school classes. I’m not sure what the exact alternative is and whether the alternative would have been a more challenging curriculum.
