Help!!!

Colleges & Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>I graduated from high school this year. I couldn't apply last year for 2008 class due to some unavoidable conditions. I will be applying for freshman class of 2009. In the meantime, I want to enroll in a local college here just to spend time with profs, do some research and fruitfully spend my gap year. I wouldn't want to transfer any credits whatsoever and apply as a freshman for the 2009 class. Will I be able to do so? My first priority however is to apply (and probably get into) MIT as a freshman in 2009 and I wouldn't have any activity hamper it .... Please advise!!</p>

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<p>Email an admissions person about it - though we can offer our guesses, they can give you something concrete. (And trust me, they don’t bite.)</p>

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<p>The admissions website says that you can’t apply as a freshman if you have been enrolled as a student in a degree-granting program.</p>

<p>For example, in [this</a> blog entry](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/april_questions_omnibus_1_1.shtml]this”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/april_questions_omnibus_1_1.shtml), Matt says

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<p>So you can take classes and do research during a gap year, but not as a degree-seeking student. You can see if the local college will allow you to attend as a special student with non-degree-seeking status.</p>

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<p>I am an International student … does that change anything?</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies … I sent an email to Matt … lets see what he has to say …</p>

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<p>No, it does not change anything to be an international student. MIT still defines freshman applicants to be students who have never been enrolled in a college or university in a degree-granting program.</p>

<p>I’m very confident that Matt will give the same answer I do here – this is not a particularly complex question.</p>

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<p>Hmmm I get it! Thanks! Little disappointed though … but I guess you do leave out some trifle thing in view of the bigger and more important … Thanks!</p>

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<p>see? i told you to ask mollie :P</p>

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<p>Yeah!! Great help!</p>