Sooo a few questions MIT...

Star_1
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:10:03 +0000

Yes, a French teacher would count as a humanities teacher.

As for the counselor, you should as the school’s new counselor to write you the official recommendation, however if you don’t feel he knows you well enough you could contact your old counselor and ask him to write you a supplemental rec (he can explain the situation to them as well). As long as you’re respectful when you ask for it, I don’t think he’d have a problem writing it for you even though its no longer his job.

And Ecs / awards… MIT definitely takes your circumstances into account when evaluating you. So if your school doesn’t have a ton of math / science opportunities, they aren’t going to hold that against you. You do have to demonstrate somehow that you can handle MIT’s GIRs (calculus, physics, biology, and chemistry), but this can be done through a combination of SAT scores, classes and their respective grades, ECs, awards, etc. You definitely don’t have to have all math / science ECs, or have won some major awards to get in (I know I didn’t). But remember it is really hard to get into MIT, especially for internationals, so you will have to give them some good reason to accept you.

Good luck!