<p>Will MIT work for the person who speaks 3 foreign languages, wants to study linguistics, enjoys science (no science awards or science activities outside of AP biology and physics) but is not crazy about math?</p>
<p>DS can do math and has done AP calculus. But AP calculus is as far as hewants to go in math.</p>
<p>Any thoughts? Is this a good school match? And by the way DS loves Boston!</p>
<p>The MIT General Institute Requirements require all MIT students to take two semesters of calculus (single-variable and multivariable), a semester of biology, a semester of chemistry, two semesters of calc-based physics (mechanics and E&M), a lab class, and two restricted electives in science and technology. In some cases, AP credit can be used, but not in all.</p>
<p>MIT is not automatically a bad fit for someone who wants to major in a non-science/engineering subject, but the idea of getting through those classes at MIT is often daunting for people who don’t really love science.</p>
<p>I would encourage him to visit and see if MIT’s environment would really work for him.</p>
<p>The poster may or may not have considered that math changes greatly in nature in college (and further at the research level), and this student may grow to like it 
someone who loved it in high school can hate it in college, and the other way around too. </p>
<p>I don’t think it’s even close to possible to like many sciences (beyond very introductory stuff) without liking math.</p>