Want to go to MIT..but not for STEM

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@rspence

You don’t need a lot of math/science awards to get into MIT. Lots of people take 18.01 simply because they didn’t or weren’t able to take calculus in high school, in which MIT still admitted them because they were still smart, driven, passionate students.

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<p>The first sentence is definitely true. I think lots might be stretching the truth a little. Only 15% of MIT freshmen start in 18.01. My guess is many if not most of that 15% have already taken some sort of calculus.</p>

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@rspence

You do have to take up to multi-variable calculus (18.02) per the GIR’s while at MIT though.

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<p>The MIT business major also requires 18.06 linear algebra, 6.041 probabilistic systems analysis, a class on optimization, and a statistics class.</p>