<p>I was wondering about how MIT look at dual enrollment (study in university while in high school) work. And I dont mean 2-3 courses, but maybe 10-11 courses that are major specific, and assuming you want no credits for them completely. Is it even a good idea to follow such a path?</p>
<p>As long as you are still considered a high school student (which is to say that you're not done with high school and enrolled solely in a degree-seeking program), you will still be able to apply for undergraduate admissions rather than in the more competitive transfer pool.</p>
<p>Many MIT applicants (and many accepted MIT students) pursued a similar course when in high school -- it's a great way to ameliorate the effects of a not-so-challenging high school curriculum.</p>
<p>Why would you think such a dual-enrollment program would be a liability?</p>
<p>I just hope this would not portray me as someone who simply took them to get into MIT or other good universities.</p>
<p>As long as that's not why you're doing it, you should be fine. :)</p>
<p>By the fact that you dual-enrolled at a university shows that you were able to
1) Get into a university(even if it's just your local univ.)
and if you're doing well
2) You're able to thrive in that enviroment.
And if your taking major-specific classes and you plann to go into that major it shows you do have an idea of what the major is.</p>
<p>I'm also speaking from experience, I was dual-enrolled starting spring semester of Junior through all of senior year, all my classes were in mathematics(my planned major) and I'm going to MIT this fall. ^_^</p>
<p>Aislyn, did you retake the classes for which you dual-enrolled? If so, how were they different?</p>
<p>High school students who have already racked up significant college credits without matriculating at a college are quite common in MIT's applicant pool. That's what you'd expect from people who are in earnest about getting ready for a high-level learning experience.</p>
<p>I'm going to be a freshman this year ktoto .....so I'm pretty ignorant T_T</p>
<p>But I'm sending in my transcript and syllabi for all of the classes I took(Linear Algebra, Diff Eq, Math Analysis I and II, and Comp Sci for Majors I) hopefully I'll get credit for linear and diff eq.. I'll update on my results if it would help?
But I think the main thing they'll look at what level it was at.
For instance calc at the community college might be harder to transfer as opposed to calc at the Univ. level, I think.
I'm sure othere are more informed on this.</p>
<p>I was wondering if one should accept any credits........ Aren't MIT courses suppost to be 5 or 10 times as hard and more in depth than those of regular state universities? If one recieves too many credits for courses in dual -enrollment, wouldn't that kind of diminish the purpose for going to MIT in the first place? Its just what I am wondering.
I am still a sophmore, but taking 3020 Microbiology and 2045 Chemistry (junior and sophmore classes in a university), and probably will be taking senior level courses like tissue ingenereeing in the fall. I am just afraid that by the time I am a senior I will have taken so many courses that i will qualify for a bachelors degree at the local university.</p>
<p>@ktoto: you should try to get whatever you can, even by deception, and you should accept whatever you can
No, MIT GRE's are not necessarily harder than the equivalents elsewhere (my multi class was about the same at Wayne State as MIT's version, diffy q was actually harder than Wayne State's, and believe it or not WSU's real analysis and abstract algebra classes that I took were very comparable to 18.100B and 18.703
if you can get out of it its because you deserve it
you wont get out of chemistry and stuff like that though unless you are complete pwnage</p>
<p>It's worth noting that some departments are stingier with transfer credit than others -- not many people get credit for biology or chemistry classes. They won't grant credit for something unless they think it's substantially equivalent to the MIT version.</p>
<p>Getting credit for courses you've already taken frees you up to take other classes which interest you, such as graduate-level classes or other advanced electives.</p>
<p>Thank you all. You have made me feel much better, and I certainly do hope that I will be accepted to MIT in 2 years.</p>