<p>Does anyone have any experience or information about this? I couldn't find much besides what's on the site for it and that's not too informative. </p>
<p>So my questions are:
1. Is it hard to get in? Are there lots of people applying every year? How many go? The site says something like 10 or 15 but that's not a lot :O and other sources say they want like 30-50 to go.
2. Is there a gpa requirement? I tried to take harder classes so my GPA (especially my pass/no record internal grades) weren't that good. I'm a sophomore and will try to bring up my GPA, but... anyways I have less than a 4.5 so I hope they don't have a cutoff for GPAs :(
3. Faculty req. I'm taking classes with something like 100 people per class even now so I don't know many faculty members personally. My UROP wasn't in my major so that won't help, probably. How well do faculty have to know you? This is like applying to colleges all over again, except in HS, your teachers know you better.
4. Extracurriculars? I'm in a few clubs, but no leadership positions or anything. I guess I'm just too busy keeping up with schoolwork. Gah. Again, this is like applying to colleges all over.</p>
<p>Go to the Study Abroad office and ask to be put on their mailing list. (It might be a good time to talk to them about CME too.) Last November, they sent out information to their list about CME info sessions. Go to the info sessions - they’ll answer all your questions.</p>
<p>As for faculty req, sitting in a classroom isn’t necessarily the best way to meet a professor anyway, even if the classes are small. Go to office hours, ask questions, ask questions about their work if it interests you, etc.</p>
<p>And it basically is applying to a college. You are, in fact, trying to go to Cambridge for a year ^^</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s necessarily problematic that your UROP advisor wasn’t in your department – what you want from a UROP supervisor’s recommendation letter is for them to say you’re smart, and a quick learner, and a promising future scholar. </p>
<p>I would also be very surprised if your P/NR grades were a factor – those do not show up on your official transcript, nor your internal MIT transcript, so I would strongly assume anyone selecting students for CME would not have access to them.</p>
<p>I think if you are a MIT student and you want to do CME, you pretty much can. There is a much greater demand for Cambridge students to come here than for MIT students to go there. The challenge is planning out a course of study that still has you graduate on time. You can do it, but at the trade off of other things, of course.</p>
<p>Also I heard a <em>rumor</em> that the program may be winding down. You should definitely email the office and ask. [The</a> Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate Exchange](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/]The”>http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/)</p>
<p>Also many MIT students go abroad for the summer to work or do research. One of the MISTI coordinators told me that in her opinion the summer option is better than going during the term. MIT does encourage globalness (it sent me to China and Germany in my first year), but not really during the term (I went IAP and summer respectively) because transferring credits is difficult.</p>
<p>If you are a current student, wouldn’t it be easier to just walk by to the Global Education office (Malgorzata is super nice! don’t worry about it) and ask them, or just ask a friend who had gone to Cambridge? If you need help in that regard, just send me a pm.</p>
<p>In any case, I’m one of those students theplaz is talking about. I would love to work abroad one summer, and plenty of my friends have loved doing it! But the social atmosphere of Cambridge is not for me (for a whole year), and I couldn’t bear to lose a year at MIT for it That said, it’s a wonderful opportunity for those who it is a good fit for.</p>
That said, it’s a wonderful opportunity for those who it is a good fit for.</p>