questions-take a look if you can mr.ben

<p>currently i am attending a local University, Middle East Technical University, and im majoring in Electrical Engineering. If i withdraw my registration, in other words pull out of this school,at the end of this school year (i am a freshman) and apply to MIT as a freshman next year
1= will i be considered?as a freshman?
2=do you recommend it?
3=will i be able to transfer,if not all, part of the credits received?
i will not bore you with details, but apart from the verbal section of my SAT test (i am an American Citizen, but im Turkish and i attended Turkish schools all my life, have lived in Turkey since i was 5), according to the "statistics", i am in range. Will the success i have achieved in the lessons i took here (my school is very selective -cut off admission(<strong><em>on average,first 900 out of ~2 million test takers are admitted</em></strong>)-<a href="http://www.metu.edu.tr"&gt;www.metu.edu.tr&lt;/a> for details about school), be considered? it must be realized that, the competition among students here is enormous.
4= I am attending a IT course. if i apply for admission, to start MIT in the fall 2007, by that time, i will know -certified- about 6 programming languages, and programs like MATLAB,SQL . do you think that it would be wise for me to mention this in my application?
5= I am thinking of starting up a website, for you, the admission officers at MIT, where i will upload videos of myself (playing the piano), pictures, stories... Do you think its a good idea?
6=good luck with reading the applications.
7=take care all of you.</p>

<p>and by the way, i want to learn gaelic.Do they teach gaelic at MIT???</p>

<p>I am not Ben, but knowing that Ben is extremely busy with admissions business right now, I will offer some information. Although I cannot find the direct quote on the MIT website right now, if you have been admitted to any college or university and have accepted that offer and become a student there (as you have), you cannot apply for freshman admission to MIT, you would have to apply as a transfer student. Check the MIT website under the Transfer Students section of Undergraduate Admissions for more details on what would be required of a transfer applicant.</p>

<p>I have a few things to say:</p>

<p>: You are a transfer student, and due to MIT's very high freshmen retention rate, the number of transfer students they take is usually on the border between single and double digits (last year they took 9, I believe).
: If want to learn Gaelic, you can cross-enroll at Harvard for no additional fee.
: METU is a very fine institute, I'm sure you can always go to MIT for graduate studies if you can't get in as a transfer student.</p>

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<p>Hi folly,</p>

<p>My friends have answered some of your questions for me already - I'll address the others.</p>

<p>1) Mootmom is right - if you've enrolled at another university, you will be considered as a transfer student here.</p>

<p>2) No, definitely don't withdraw - it won't change your status as a transfer applicant.</p>

<p>3) Each department is different and makes transfer credit decisions independently. For any course for which you'd like transfer credit, save the transcript and the syllabus - these will be used to determine what, if any, credit you will receive.</p>

<p>4) Yes.</p>

<p>5) Yes. :-)</p>

<p>6+7) Thanks!</p>

<p>thanks for the recommendations. I hope get to see you in person.
themanofallseasons
take care</p>