<p>Can you choose any humanities class you want or do you have to take certain ones? Also, how hard are they? I'm sure they can't be as hard as the science and engineering classes there, right?</p>
<p>I dunno, but if you flunk out of MIT merely because of the humanities part, you'll never live that one down.</p>
<p>OK, so during the summer after you are accepted, you will have to take a writing test, the FEE (Freshman Essay Evaluation). If you pass it, you can take just about humanities class offered, but it is all assigned via lottery so there is no guarantee. Most people get there first or second pick though. If you don't pass the FEE, sometime during your freshman year you have to take a CI-H class so you can learn to write, lol.
After that, you have pretty free choice of your humanities, but there are some rather complicated guidlines.
1) You must take eight humanities classes
2) Three of the classes have to be from HASS-D's from three different categories. HASS-D's are specific classes that are divided up into 5 different groups based on broad divisions of humanities. (examle, Music, Literature, History, etc.)
3) 3-4 of the classes have to be in a particular concentration of humanities (ex., Spanish)
4) 2 classes must be CI (communications intensive) classes to make sure you have been doing a good bit of writing</p>
<p>But yeah, after that you can do whatever you want! :)</p>
<p>so whats the FEE like? is it something to prep for at all or does a decent writer pass? also if you get a 5 on the engl. AP it counts also...but i dont think i will be getting a five, so i guess im looking at the FEE</p>
<p>Unless it's changed for next year, you are exempt from taking the FEE is you got a 5 on AP lit or language.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, you are exempt if you get a 5. :) And the FEE isn't that bad. You write two essays, one narrative and one based on about 10-15 pages of assigned reading. As long as you are a decent writer you should pass as long as you don't blow off the essays but spend some time on them. I know some very accomplished writers who failed the FEE, but I think it might have been because they didn't take it seriously.</p>
<p>oh so its not a timed thing? do we prepare the essays ahead of time?</p>
<p>does 800 writing exempt as well [maybe :)]?</p>
<p>"I'm sure they can't be as hard as the science and engineering classes there, right?"</p>
<p>can someone answer that?</p>
<p>SDFried, sorry, SAT scores don't count. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/writing/fee/faq.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/writing/fee/faq.html</a></p>
<p>Woo! 5's count! Awesome.</p>