<p>How would you react if you were approached by a prospective student (through an intermediary friend or relative ofc) and asked about MIT application advices, curriculum and MIT experience?</p>
<p>I would ask for the interests of the student to figure out what specific things s/he’d like to know. MIT is very big and multi-faceted :)</p>
<p>This has happened to me before many times, and I’m always happy to talk. I think most people would feel the same way. </p>
<p>That’s what all of us are doing on CC, anyway, minus the intermediary friends or relatives. :)</p>
<p>I’m a current student now! sorta. :)</p>
<p>I’d talk. 
I like talking.</p>
<p>I’m happy to talk about MIT. I will talk about life there, about curriculuum and about my experiences. As to “application advice”, that tends to turn on how I have been approached. If I am approached “officially”, when I am acting as an EC, interviewing, visiting schools, speaking at a college fair, or something like that, then I am fairly circumspect. If approached in a private context, I might answer questions that I otherwise would have deflected.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone.</p>
<p>I have heard about this person from my country (which might be like, the only fellow countryman to have attended MIT) who is an alumn and i thought about contacting him but I wanted to know first whether alumns like it or not being contacted in unofficial ways.</p>
<p>I am curious though Mikalye, why would you as an EC deflect some questions?
And would it be possible to tell me at least the category of that kind of information?</p>
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It happens, rarely but occasionally, that I get asked about application tactics. For example, “what should I write my essay about?” These are questions that I personally always deflect. Ask me about MIT to your hearts content, but don’t ask me to write your application for you.</p>
<p>[… which might be like, the only fellow countryman to have attended MIT] Now that is unlikely. We have EC’s all over the world and alums in a huge number of places where we don’t have EC’s. Heck there’s an EC in the Solomon Islands. As to whether some random adult likes to be called up out of the blue and asked about their university days, that’s a question with no obviously right answer, but the safest solution is to talk to your EC.</p>
<p>Aha, I thought that was some kind of admission insight only former students knew about…not the “what should I write about or how do my scores look to you” questions.</p>
<p>And about the EC, as far as I know (and i have searched a lot) there are no alumns from my country [Albania] (do you happen to know about any?], only this guy who currently lives abroad . The bitter paradox is that we have so many Harvard alumns, my country is even listed as a country you definitely get an interview LOL.
But as of now I am doing a gap year in Germany. Heard of any EC’s in Germany? I hope I get an interview, I really want to play every card for MIT. </p>
<p>Don’t want to sound like a broken record (here on CC) but I absolutely love everything about MIT (especially the esoteric form of communication haha) and the people seem so much different from the Ivies: very down-to-earth, plain nice and with a “sweet” attitude - or maybe this is just an hallucination from my infatuation ^_^</p>
<p>I think that the means of contact would sway how I’d feel about talking to someone. I think I’d be slightly disturbed if a prefrosh found my home phone number and called me, but I’d consider an email completely acceptable from a random stranger. Maybe that’s just me ^.^</p>
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<p>I like hearing about prefrosh who are excited about MIT 
A lot of times people are so focused on getting in, and with many I wonder if it’s for the name or for what makes this place truly special.</p>
<p>Hahaha…I too want to get in, but I know for sure I won’t, so I don’t focus on chance me threads but I try to cherish every info from this amazing, exciting, extremely appealing (every adjective seems so bland o.o) place . After I’m rejected I’ll never mention it’s name again >.<…it would hurt too much…at least until grad school :)</p>