<p>My former highschool teacher and I were planning to visit MIT.
Can we meet Matt, or the others?
If that is possible, Do you know the perfect time to find them, or do we have to contact and arrange meeting?</p>
<p>How about professors.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Try emailing them?</p>
<p>Hey hamsi2004
I don’t know Matt’s email adress.
Do you know his email?</p>
<p>You can arrange meetings directly with professors. I had a meeting with Dr. Barry Johnston of the Chemical Engineering department when I visited in June. However, they refused to give me a personal appointment with any of the admissions staff.</p>
<p>On occasion, and schedules willing, I am aware that at least some of the admissions staff have met with candidates. The key question to ask yourself when you try to set up such a meeting is “Why do I wish to meet with this person, and/or what do I hope to gain?” </p>
<p>Is there some question that you have about MIT that has not been explained in any of the admissions material and which you cannot ask your Educational Counselor? And if so, is it something that an Admissions officer is likely to know? Are you hoping to impress them with the size of your gigantic intellect in the hope that they will remember you on the off-chance that they are assigned to read your file? Are you hoping to demonstrate your Tuvan throat singing skills over lunch, and you think that that is an appropriate venue?</p>
<p>Admissions officers are just people. Almost all of the MIT admissions officers I have met are very nice people. And like most very nice, very busy people, they would be happy to meet with you if they can, if their schedules allow it, if they are on campus and if there is some good reason to do so. But with 15,661 applications last year, they simply cannot meet with everyone.</p>
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<p>Hahaha, I wish. I might consider myself intelligent but am in no way born to wow anybody. It might be nice to meet them but I wouldn’t make it my first priority when I visit MIT in a week or so.</p>
<p>Thank you guys.
My teacher came up this visiting idea.
I have never visited nor have a relative who visited MIT or other top schools.
I came here/America as a refugee and had no idea what to do, my former highschool teacher has been pushing me all time.
He was willing to give me a ride to visit MIT (yep there are still great people in the world)</p>
<p>It looks that they are very busy, so I rather no visit them.
I was trying to say Hi, though my teacher could impress them with out me.
He has my research in his laptop.
I have nothing but his confidence, I mean my SAT are very low.</p>
<p>Hey Mikalye
That was very help full!</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>I’m not sure why you’d want to meet with an admissions officer. But some of the academic departments at MIT actively seek to meet prospective students. For example, if you visit the physics department webiste, here: [MIT</a> Department of Physics - Undergraduate](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/physics/undergrad/index.html]MIT”>http://web.mit.edu/physics/undergrad/index.html)
you will find the following welcoming message:</p>
<p>“Will you be visiting MIT to learn about the Undergraduate program? If you are interested in Physics, we would like to meet you! Click here for more details.”</p>
<p>My daughter found this webpage when she was a junior in high school. She clicked on the link and arranged for a visit to the physics department. When we arrived on the MIT campus later that year, she was welcomed by the chair of undergraduate physics. They had a conversation that lasted around 45 minutes; he later introduced her to a second faculty member. They recommended a number of classes she should visit, and so she ended up spending the entire day immersed in physics and left MIT feeling that if she gained admission, she’d find a very welcoming spot in that department.</p>
<p>That sort of experience is worth more than a thousand 5-minute chats with admissions officers.</p>
<p>Hey CalAlum
Thank you for the link.
I will try to do the same and visit the math department, though the math professors are busy for solving Riemann hypothesis!</p>