I honestly don’t think MIT’s HASS requirement is that much, and it shouldn’t discourage you from applying. In fact some of my more enjoyable classes were HASSes.
To be exact, MIT’s HASS requirement is:
- 8 HASS classes, with at least one each from humanities, arts, social sciences
- Two of them must be CI-H (or one CI-HW). Yes you have to be able to write.
- You have to declare a HASS concentration, which is usually satisfied by 3 or 4 HASS classes in that field
But you should be able to look this stuff up.