Sooo a few questions MIT...

TheDude2491
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:39:17 +0000

So hello everyone, I’m just a newbie to these forums and the American college application process (I’m a international), so please bear with me.

First thing I was wondering is about the recommendation letters. It says that we need 1 letter from each a math/science teacher and a humanities teacher. So I’m kind of wondering what a humanities teacher is. Is it a language/history teacher? If so, would French count (it’s a foreign language at my school)?

Second, I realize that I also need a recommendation from my counselor; however, he retired just this school year so he won’t be at the school next year. Should I somehow ask the school for his contact information? Or would this be inappropriate because it’s no longer his job to do that anymore?

Finally, does all applicants need to have some great math/science awards or ECs to get in? Where I live, it’s basically an average school. (Only 1 person has ever went to the States in the last 10 years or so and he got into MIT and Stanford for discovering some cure for cancer or some weird things.) Basically, except for that individual, there aren’t much opportunities to go to math/science Olympiads and etc. So I’m wondering if MIT also admits people whose ECs don’t really show passion to their future major (mine is engineer)

So I hope you guys may help me out and perhaps give me some hope for next fall’s application!

Thanks to everyone in advance!