<p>could one of the more experienced of you all post a "general" template of what MIT will accept in terms of the AP physical sciences, mathematics, language courses, and ECs? This is of course excluding "personality evalutation" and subjective things like that. Also, I will have taken four years of French and I'm quitting that next year to go to ChineseIII. Will this hurt or help me? I'm so much more interested in Chinese; I could not do a fifth year of French to save the world.
Template of Academics and ECs for MIT?
French V vs. ChineseIII? HSK for Chinese fluency?</p>
<p>Search the MIT website for "common data set". For the most recent year, you will see under the "First Year Admissions" section a table listing the required and recommended high school courses MIT is expecting in its applicants. Note that there is nothing in the "Required" category, and under "Recommended" it lists 4 years each of English, mathematics, and science, and 2 years each of foreign language and social studies. (2 years of a single language: not 5 years, nor 2 languages. ;) And recommended.) Take Chinese if you're interested in it.</p>
<p>MIT will look at any AP courses you took (or self-studied for) in the context of what offerings were available to you and what else you're interested in. You are not required to have taken AP courses to be admitted. Incoming freshmen can receive some credits for scoring 5 on a select set of AP exams: you can see the list for the most recent incoming class here. (And a table of the % of Class of 2009 students who placed out of a course either via AP scores or advanced standing exams taken during Orientation here.)</p>
<p>There is no "template" of what MIT will "accept" in terms of ECs. Do what you love, and then show MIT in your app how you express the interests that are most important to you.</p>
<p>Thank you very much!!!</p>