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Very safe, and getting safer all the time. As a non-intimidatingly-sized female, I feel campus is completely safe, and there are only a few places in Boston or Cambridge I avoid when I’m alone and/or at night.</p>
<p>I am also a non-intimidatingly-sized female, and I wanted around campus around 4am all the time (turning in psets -.-). I’ve never felt threatened.</p>
<p>Just to add to osasis’s awesome answers about humanities and your question about being able to do humanities and ECs…First off, you’ll be required to take 1 humanities class every semester. So even if you’re in one of the more rigorously scheduled majors (more required classes), you’ll definitely at least have built in time for that much.</p>
<p>And while different majors have different requirements, everyone is required to take the same number of units- so which major you’re in shouldn’t really have too much of an effect on your ability to do ECs (except for maybe semesters/years when you’re stuck in the notoriously difficult and/or time consuming courses scattered around the institute.)</p>
<p>I’m deciding now between Caltech and MIT. I visited Caltech during their PFW, but I wasn’t able to attend MIT’s CPW although I did stay overnight through their Overnight Program. I’ve wanted to go to MIT for a few years now, but after visiting Caltech, I’m not quite as sure anymore.</p>
<p>There are two concerns I have. Caltech has a much smaller community, and to me, it seemed like that counselors/professors/administrative staff treated their students better and had more personal contact with them. Do you ever feel that at MIT, students are sometimes (for lack of a better word) neglected or lost? </p>
<p>Also, I have severe multiple food allergies (including any dairy products, beef, eggs, soy, nuts, etc…). Therefore, I can’t just grab food around campus. I have never successfully eaten out at a restaurant before. Do you know if the dining options have accommodated for other students like me before? </p>
<p>I’d like to go to MIT, but the food allergy accommodations make me a little apprehensive. When I visited, I didn’t seem to get the feeling that they had had any experiences with multiple food allergies before. I know for sure that Caltech can accommodate for my food allergies.</p>
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No, absolutely not. MIT definitely isn’t tiny, but it’s broken up into smaller communities, and the resources available at MIT are commensurate with its size.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the food allergy question, although if it were me, I’d email Campus Dining (<a href=“mailto:foodstuff@mit.edu”>foodstuff@mit.edu</a>), or the director of campus dining, Rich Berlin (<a href=“mailto:rberlin@mit.edu”>rberlin@mit.edu</a>). I strongly suspect that they have dealt with similar allergies before, and they’ll be able to tell you what kinds of accommodations are available. Remember, also, that you can choose to live in a dorm with kitchens, where you yourself can control what you put before your immune system.</p>
<p>I’ve pretty much convinced my parents to fund my education at MIT over a (nearly) full-ride from Yale, however they are very serious about enforcing me to maintain a high GPA to make it worth their money. </p>
<p>I’m a 4.0 student in High School, which I’ve always found to be easy (taken many AP Classes)… my question is, given that I’m of average intelligence (by MIT standards), and willing to work my ass off, can I get a GPA at least 4.7? How hard is it to get As majoring in Course 6?</p>
<p>When do we have to matriculate? I know it says May 1st but does that mean before 9 pm Pacific Time on April 30?</p>
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There is really no way to answer that question. For some people, it’s easy to do, and for others it isn’t, and it’s not easy to predict in advance except maybe for the superstars.</p>
<p>The good things about MIT in that situation are:
- You can do things like UROP for credit or take extra humanities classes to raise your GPA, if you find that you need to.
- MIT will not report your grades to your parents.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s worth it to tell your parents now, or if you think they’ll just figure it out along the way, but you don’t need anything near a 4.7 in course 6 to get a good job or to get into grad school.</p>
<p>Matriculation??? anyone?? BEFORE or ON May 1st?</p>
<p>On May 1st. But don’t push it until the last minute. I have a few friends who still haven’t committed yet as well.</p>