<p>@IsaacM - honestly, I don’t know. Once you begin the application you should be able to see if all of your scores are in our system via MyMIT. If any are missing you can call us + the CollegeBoard to check. </p>
<p>@ajeck/mollie - yep. We don’t use CB concordance tables. What we use are the data from actual MIT applicants and students to figure out which scores on which tests predict what likelihood of success academically at MIT and go from there. Just do as well as you can on the tests and we’ll take it from there.</p>
<p>ok thanks, I wasn’t sure if the MyMIT thing would tell me if my scores were in so good. Yeah I emailed the collegeboard and they said they’d only confirm if my scores were actually sent if the college first confirmed that they were not received. lol.</p>
<p>this is the part where I professionally refrain from commenting on the CollegeBoard’s practices so as to avoid cursing a blue streak on my CC account</p>
<p>Does MIT, in regards to the ACT, use Math and English scores only (I noticed these were the only ones listed on your statistics page)? If not, how much of an impact do the science section and/or reading sections have (although I’m more interested in the science)?</p>
No, but MIT only uses the scores that put the applicant in the best light, so there’s no real advantage gained by sending only the best scores to MIT. Even if all scores are sent, MIT will only consider the best ones that fit their criteria.</p>
<p>It’s a little unfortunate that, since this thread is stickied, it only shows up under the header, because a lot of these questions are getting asked again in separate threads…</p>
<p>Hello, I am an international applicant (actually future applicant or prospective applicant would be more exact :)) for Fall 2012 entrance and I am curious to know if the admissions process described on MIT’s admissions website is similiar for us international applicants. I think I have read one of your posts on this thread saying that it is useless for us to compare ourselves to american students because we are different. Can you please elaborate on the differences in the approach you have with international applicants ? Is being from a country that is not represented at MIT a plus ? </p>
<p>In brief: we can only admit ~100 international students per year to MIT, so it is more competitive. And we are also a regionalized international office, so everyone has an area of expertise and reads from there to ensure proper understanding of complex international curricula.</p>
I do try to merge really egregious FAQs, but after several years, I’ve come to the realization that no matter what I do, I cannot force people to read the first page of the FAQ thread. </p>
<p>Do you prefer to have frequently-asked questions merged here, or similar threads merged? There’s a lot of dramaz right now in another internet forum I frequent because the moderator has been merging threads with similar topics, and I wonder what people think here. Personally, I try to merge really frequently-asked questions here, to have a stickied interview thread when interviews start up (and to merge all interview questions there), and to move all admit/current student questions to the subforum. But I can be more heavy-handed with the merges if people think the forum is getting too crazy.</p>
<p>It actually does show up at the top of the forum for me also, I apparently just skip it and go straight to the unstickied posts (which I guess a lot of people must do, considering how many repeated questions there are :P)</p>
<p>also lol at internet dramaz</p>
<p>I don’t know what we can do, it’s probably fine. At least the number of “chance me” threads has gone down.</p>
<p>Question. This year is going to be my senior year of high school and I plan on applying Regular Decision. I already took an online Pre-Calculus class and got an A, but my school district requires AP Calculus AB before BC (I’d have to do it online as well). Will it hurt my admissions chances if I take Pre-Calc at a community college in the fall and Calc I (credit equivalent to AP Calc AB) in the spring of my senior year (Calc I is not offered in the fall), instead of the year-long AP Calculus AB class? I don’t see the point of spreading a one semester course over a whole year when I could be making sure my algebra/trig skills are solid and getting classroom instruction. I emailed the Caltech admissions officer and they told me that I can’t even apply without a year of calculus, which is depressing.</p>
<p>Given that the Calc BC test gives you credit for 18.01, and lots of MIT students take 18.01 anyway, lots of admitted people have not taken calculus in high school.</p>
I wouldn’t say it’s “lots”, actually – most of the people who take 18.01 have actually taken calculus before, just aren’t confident that their previous calc courses were strong enough. When I took 18.01 (for that reason), very few of my fellow students hadn’t taken a calc course before.</p>
<p>I’m a US citizen and did my entire schooling abroad. I have a permanent residence in the US and my parents are American taxpayers.</p>
<p>Would I have to compete with that extremely competitive international pool of students for admission? Will I be limited to try for one of those 100 admissions MIT offers.</p>
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