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<p>Thank you. I’m always amazed when I see people whose background is significantly stronger than mine was (and mine was significantly stronger than some people’s) being neurotic about how everyone is supposedly going to have a stronger background than them.</p>
<p>And yeah, someone who thinks that the problems on the intro class psets are easy, may be better-served by taking advanced standing exams.</p>
<p>Edited to add: Oh, and also, if you think 18.01/18.02 are easy, but you don’t have the background to test out of them, consider 18.014/18.024, or, if you’re starting with multivariable, 18.022. Those are more theoretical options.</p>
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<p>My experience comparing with my frosh roommate (I took 5.112, she took 5.111 in the same semester) was that 5.112 is going faster all along - that it ends up covering the material of 5.111, and then a chunk more. It’s just that the divergence is more noticeable as it gets later in the semester.</p>
<p>5.112 is a nice class in its own way, but you do want to have a good background going in. Arguably, I should not have been taking it. I did manage to pass, if just barely, and with tutoring.</p>
<p>It’s really hard to transfer to another 4-year school (even if it was MIT you failed out of). Many schools have minimum “B” GPA requirements for transfers. Many (e.g., Boston University) have outright bans on admitting transfers with previous failures on their records. There are former MIT students who have transferred to “nice” 4-year schools: these students typically were wealthy and had powerful inside connections with the school they transferred to. (Example: student who failed out of MIT three times, then transferred to UCal Berkeley. His dad was an engineering prof at Berkeley. Also note that the only reason MIT readmitted him after more than one failure was because of his father: they knew he had the technical preparation for MIT and wasn’t someone from an intellectually deprived background.) </p>
<p>Getting readmitted to MIT might actually be one’s only hope of graduating from a 4-year school with a good reputation. The other option is to start over as a first-term freshman at a community college–throwing the entire MIT education in the wastebasket–then getting an associate’s, and transferring to a flagship state school. </p>
<p>Northeastern University used to have a deal with MIT to accept MIT’s flunk-outs in engineering. They stopped doing that quite a while ago, and now have a blanket prohibition against accepting MIT’s failures, and will tell any MIT flunk-out who applies to Northeastern to start over at community college. </p>
<p>What is the point of this necropost with no sources cited?</p>
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