<p>This is his first choice. All viewpoints are so appreciated.</p>
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<p>Hi my son is applying-- hopefully transfering to MIT for sophmore year with excellent everything but he has not as a freshman had a year of physics, semester of bio, semester of chemistry and year of math as they request. Instead he has had a year of honors chemistry at Washington U and a semester of Calc 3. NO bio and no physics( and he took other various courses that were very challenging-- with great grades. )</p>
<li><p>How should this be addressed? He is willing to go to school over the summer.</p></li>
<li><p>He is generally a chem major… he can make himself be more specific if there are areas of MIT with more ( comparatively) more enrollment. He actually loves the comparative lack of specificity which is required at MIT when it comes to his foreseen course intersests. Thank you for any and all thoughts. He is a wonderful person and he has finally figured out that this is the school he wants to be at. He is inordinately honest, that he really needed to “feel it”. He never applied anywhere early decision last year… and he went to the honors program for the scholarship largely becasue he could not figure out what he wanted more.</p></li>
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<p>Besides Calc 3 and Chem, what other courses has he taken thus far as a freshman? I'm applying as a sophomore transfer as well and there is no way for me to meet all of the requirements. My school, Haverford College, has requirements of its own that would have made life nearly impossible if I were to take chem AND physics AND bio. A combination of the two is feasible, but I question all three. When I found out that MIT has accepted transfers without those stated requirements, I decided to follow suit. </p>
<p>Anyway, here's what I took this year:</p>
<h2>Semester 1:</h2>
<p>Spanish (language requirement, boo!)
Physics (First year, calc-based physics)
Math: Prob/Stat and Calc 2
Intro to Artificial Intelligence (computer science/philosophy)</p>
<h2>Semester 2:</h2>
<p>Spanish
Physics E/M
Math: Number Theory
Writing Seminar (Freshman requirement)</p>
<p>As you can see, I don't really meet all of the requirements. I've met with numerous advisors and counselors here and they all said that my schedule not only helped with my school's requirements, but it would also be sufficient for my transfer application. I guess we'll see how things pan out come May. Good luck to your son.</p>
<p>Like freshman applicants, your son's biggest challenge will be # of available spots in the class coupled with a very competitive applicant pool. We accept very few transfer students each year (last year the number was in the single digits) and there are quite a few transfer applicants. The problem for your son is that many of them will have met all of the requirements.</p>
<p>Still, every case is unique and I certainly don't have enough info to say one way or the other. If there's one thing I've learned in this job, it's that anything can happen, so never lose hope.</p>
<p>Another question. Where on the application should he best communicate that he is planning to take physics over the summer?</p>
<p>He just got an A on his midterm for calc 3 which I think should help, ( he is missing a semester of math as well as the physics for the freshman year encouraged courses.)
Other than that, he has As in honors chem ( both semesters) .
He will have superlative recommendations.
Jeepers. He is such a high quality person.. and the curriculum is so perfect, I hope that is able to shine though within his applicaiton so that an allowance can be made for this coursework.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your attention and help!!!</p>