<p>i’m 22, from morocco, i’m a french-speaking student about to get an engineering school, but i want to get the MIT, and i don’t know whether i have to follow a transfer, UG or G application.
my english level is quite good, but i don’t know if my age will make the situation hard for me.
i really have a lot of potential and will, and i don’t want to lose it, that’s why i’m doing my best just to know how to apply for MIT, there i will find the environment where my ideas and visions may encounter others and so, come out with good results.
i already emailed many people and committees inside the MIT, but no one answers.
all in all, i hope that someone will help me, and i wish a good luck for everyone.</p>
<p>Do you already have a degree? If so, you’d probably be applying to graduate school. If you’ve done any sort of post-secondary studies at another institution, you’d be a transfer student. Otherwise, you would most likely be an undergraduate.</p>
<p>Your age may not be an issue, although schools will want to know why you’ve waited 4 years or so between secondary school and post-secondary, and what you’ve done during those years.</p>
<p>well, i didn’t had a normal childhood as any one, so i wasted two years when i was 12 because my father want me to do something else, but i went back to school, i didn’t like what he want for me, i did well in the last years and i get my IB " mathematics science", and i did 3years of mathematics, physics , industrial science , french , chemistry and english, i passed an exam and if i’ll be well ranked i’ll register in a good engineering school, but my dream is to get the MIT. the problem is that we don’t have the same education, i mean no clubs no researchs( else what we do during exams) and so forth,
but we have hard studies even.
as many people told me, to be an UG you must have a lot of stuff…,in addition to the fees, things seems to me impossible sometimes.
even so, i’m willing to passe the SAT, TOEFL, interviews if it possible and i’ll see after that. i hope i can prove my merit, unless i’ll get my engineering degree and i will register for MIT. but the UG is best because you will improve your skills , that what’s killing me .</p>
<p>thank you for answering mate. take care</p>
<p>did you study in a CPGE in Marrocco? If so did you take any of the national exams for admission to french engineering schools? Your best option is to complete your undergraduate studies in France if you get admitted and apply to MIT (and other US schools) as a graduate student. International UG admission to MIT is extremely hard. In addition, MIT admits hardly any transfers. You would also waste another year as you would apply for 2009 admission, when you would be 23 years old. Get your engineering degree first and worry about MIT later.</p>
<p>the exam is already passed, now we’re waiting for the results. so your suggestion is to pursue my studies here in morocco( because i may be admitted here too) till to get my engineering degree, and after that apply for MIT, i think that’s what i’m willing to do after all the informations i get from searching. one thing more is that i think after getting an engineering degree the master is what comes not the graduate studies,( i don’t know much about the system) there is also Ph.D.
i will see if i can make transfert between my engineering school and MIT,if that’s not possible i should drop it till the “master”.
thank you .</p>