<p>I’m currently a high school student in Vietnam and I’m going to apply to MIT. I have the following question :
Because my school system is different than that of the U.S, my school will not send transcript directly to MIT. My school’s counselors only help me to translate the transcript into English, and my teacher can help me write recommendation letters. As they can not send the application documents directly to MIT, I must include it to my application with other material such as research paper written by my teacher. So I would like to ask when is the appropriate time to send such transcript and letters ? Should I include a paper which explains my transcript? </p>
There’s not a singular answer to this – different people make different choices. </p>
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It’s never a tragedy if you write something wrong on the MIT application. Fill in the biographical info to the best of your knowledge, but don’t worry if you don’t know some of the answers and can’t contact the parent in question to get them.</p>
<p>Hello. I am a first year university student in Lithuania and would like to apply to MIT. I feel that my current university does not offer me enough (i have already completed all of the assignments and finished 2 out of 5 courses for this semester even though it has barely started)
At MIT admissions website it is said that if I have enrolled at another university, I have to apply as a transfer student. However if would discontinue my enrollment here(and study on my own for the rest of the year) can I apply as a freshman? Or do i absolutely have to finish my two terms here and apply as a transfer student. Or maybe can I finish my academic year here and apply as a transfer student for freshman year. (I would like to start from the first year)
2)I have already taken IELTS. Am I still required to take TOEFL or SAT?(i am not native English speaker) P.S. Are graduate applicants ,with IELTS instead of TOEFL, at any kind of disadvantage( as it seems that IELTS is accepted for graduate admission but not for undergraduate as it says nothing about it) </p>
<p>Thank you in advance. Have a good day/night whichever you prefer :)</p>
<p>I know you guys have probably answered this question several times, but how does the athletic recruiting process work? I know a Varsity coach can submit a letter of recommendation on behalf of a recruit. Does it prevent an applicant from being rejected Early Action? The coach I spoke with said if we applied early, we would either be accepted or deferred. Do you guys read and consider what the coaches have to say, or is more like a thing you glance at and make a mental note that the coach wants the applicant?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>Also, you guys answered my question a few pages back about getting assigned an EC. Chris said that you had to submit Part 1 before getting assigned an EC, but I would like to clarify that after talking to a couple of my friends who had been assigned an EC without submitting any parts of their application, I just e-mailed the Tech Support and they assigned me one.</p>
<p>^ People who are rejected early action are people who are not qualified for MIT in some way. I believe this ends up being about 20% of the pool. If you’re a D-and-F student, I highly, highly doubt a coach recommendation will prevent you from being rejected early action. Overall, sports are treated like other extracurricular activities - it all depends on how far you push them/what you do with them/etc.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I have one more question. I’m taking Multivariable Calculus this semester at a local community college since the course is not offered at my high school. I know that MIT doesn’t accept community college courses for credit, but should I send a transcript anyway? It probably won’t have any grades or much other information on it other than that I am in fact, enrolled in the class.</p>
<p>For Activity, the honors you won while participating and indicate high school year(s) of participation and List any scholastic distinctions and non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction. </p>
<p>My Activity honors would be same from scholastic distinctions and non-scholastic distinctions. They are the five that are most important to me. Then they are repeating. Should I list something else?</p>
<p>I have a question similar to the above post—on last night’s webcast, they said that scholastic distinctions are awards won within school and non-scholastic are outside of school, but another blog on the mit admissions website said scholastic included a lot more things, such as science fair awards. </p>
<p>I know this question has probably been asked before, but the hosts on the webcast defined scholastic and non-scholastic pretty definitively…just to be sure, where would a science fair award go?</p>
<p>I have another question. For 5 essays, should we write 5 different areas? I am a chemistry person, so 3 essays I wrote are something about chemistry. Is it bad?</p>
<p>In case anybody else was wondering (i had the same question and i saw someone else post it as well) MIT has purged the database of last year’s applicants. </p>
<p>At least im assuming they did becasue i cant get into the one from last year</p>
Yes, although “substantially similar” is up to the department. For the math department in particular, I think many more people get credit through the advanced standing exams than through the transfer credit examiners.</p>
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It’s really okay to define the awards as you see fit. </p>
If you have other distinctions, you should consider listing them. You only have so much space on the application – I’d try not to repeat if possible.</p>
<p>I see. However, my Multi Variable Calc professor told me that MIT has accepted credit for his particular class in the past. So it is possible to get credit this way.</p>
Fill in the biographical info to the best of your knowledge, but don’t worry if you don’t know some of the answers and can’t contact the parent in question to get them.</p>