<p>If you haven't heard of it, it's a national Engineering curriculum aimed at middle and high schoolers. </p>
<p>It goes: Introduction to Engineering, Principals of Engineering, Digital Electronics and one of three electives (Biotech, Computer Aided Design, Aerospace), and then Engineering Design and Development. </p>
<p>Have the majority of MIT applicants completed a full four year Engineering course such as PLTW?</p>
<p>Would finishing something like this even be noticed by admissions officers?</p>
<p>My school offers PLTW courses as well, and the counselors like to talk about how wonderful it is for college admissions, but my school is more aimed toward going to local tech schools. I am wondering the same thing.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether having a certificate from that might give you a boost, yet I do believe that enrolling and finishing such a deep course [at HS level] prior to attending college can show great motiviation and desire to pursue science-related careers.</p>
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<p>I don’t see why it would not.</p>
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Definitely not. But having experience in engineering design, whether through a formal curriculum or just through backyard tinkering around, is a great help for a prospective engineer.</p>
<p>yeah, not the majority, but we do see and notice it! it is an excellent way to demonstrate interest in sci and engineering if you have the curriculum available to you.</p>
<p>Alright! Thank you all for the replies. They’ve cleared up some questions I had.</p>
<p>My daughter did 3 years of PLTW (her school started it when she was a sophmore). She liked it a lot, but her class rank suffered since it wasn’t honors or AP. She didn’t apply to MIT though.</p>