Evaluations & School Report

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Hi guys,
Some questions from a domestic applicant studying in Turkey.</p>

<p>My teachers don't know English so they can't fill out the forms themselves. Therefore I'm planning on getting the forms translated to Turkish with one of the English as Secondary Language teachers. Then after the teachers will out the Turkish forms, have them translated back to English and fax it all to MIT. Is this a good idea? Or should they just write letters and don't fill in the report?</p>

<p>I can just translate them myself(teachers are okay with me seeing the letters), but I assume it is not considered legitimate?</p>

<p>There is no letterhead on paper in the classical sense. They don't put a logo or use a special paper. Will it be okay for teachers to just write on normal paper?</p>

<p>My school doesn't officialy know about my SAT scores as it isn't part of our system, I assume it is fine that they don't report it?(as CollegeBoard will be sending it for me)</p>

<p>We don't have Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus.. seperated into different math classes but instead one main Math class every year. Should I ask the school to make an explanation? If so, is School Profile where should they explain it?</p>

<p>Also, in Turkey, they use A4 instead of the letter size in US. Would it be a problem when faxing?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>This all sounds fine, really. You should definitely have someone else do the translating, as doing it yourself would sort of defeat the purpose.</p>

<p>But the other issues – plain paper, A4 paper, math class logistics – won’t be an issue. You can either have the school explain the math classes in the school profile, or you can do it yourself in the “anything else we should know” box.</p>

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<p>My teacher is done with translating the forms into Turkish.
However we both have a question.
Should she put that “I’m competent to translate… the document is an original translation of the…” etc. part at the bottom of the translation? Or should she write it on a blank page and sign it there and not touch the original English and Turkish forms?
I don’t know if it is even important but I also got worried because when I fax, the forms get scanned into the system. Would it correctly file original MIT forms, translated forms and a page for translation information?</p>