<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>