<p>I can find virtually no info on non-trads at MIT and I expect this is because there are none/very few? Is this because there are few applying or because the school does not particularly embrace this demographic? Realistically, will age be considered a negative when applying to MIT? I'll be 38 when applying and competitive otherwise.</p>
<p>MIT requires all freshmen to live on campus for their first year (if you didn’t want to live on campus, you’d still need to pay for housing). MIT also doesn’t accept anyone as an incoming freshmen who have previously entered a degree-seeking program, IIRC - they have to apply as transfer students. I feel like these are both large deterrents to anyone who’s over 30.</p>
<p>Ty for the reply K4, to clarify I’ll be applying as a transfer student and meet the transfer requirements.</p>
<p>I met a guy in the EECS program who matriculated when he was 30.<br>
He had a junior college education but had been working on programming for a lunar module or something like that for several yearss.</p>