Hello, I don’t know if this is the right forum, if not please redirect me.
I am transferring as an engineering student. Technically this would be my freshman year but I will have taken college level Calculus III Physics II and Chemistry II by next semester. I began as a Humanities major when I took college courses as a “high schooler” (non traditional/ homeschool). But I took my SAT and entrance exams prior to enrolling at community college. I was a few credits shy of my associates but took a gap year. I was thinking I would transfer as a homeschool applicant but a lot of schools said I would have to be a transfer because of the credits I had. Other schools said they would only count courses I took after “graduation”. This is my year before transferring so I wanted to take all the courses I would need as requirements. All writing and humanities requirements are of course done however I did poorly on a pre calc course I took years ago. I took calc I got an A, I wouldn’t expect less than A/B in calc ii and I will take calc ii in spring. I got all A’s in chem and physics i (I’ll take physics II and calc III together)
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I guess what I’m wondering is if my track is too untraditional to get into a school like MIT despite having a great GPA and having the core requirements.
I took your regular high school physics, trig, etc. But I don’t know if that would make me competitive for an MIT applicant. Would only having science and math courses during my “freshman” year look lazy? I don’t know what else to take because I have taken beyond what I would need to transfer I just feel like only taking math and science all year might make me look lazy? I was considering adding in a statistics course but I did not want to take something that didn’t transfer and waste my parents money
Please help or offer some advice. Thank you in advance