What is MIT's view on self studying and taking hard math classes earlier on?

Sklog_W
Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:28:17 +0000

Yeah, they definitely compare you to other people in your school. I took BC Calc sophmore year with my twin brother, we were the third and fourth people to ever do that in our high school’s history (the first was my older brother). I’ve never heard of half of the stuff you guys are talking about, I took 9 AP classes (only 10 are offered at my school) got like eight 5’s, and besides that I only did sports as EC’s. I didn’t even ever go to the science fair willingly, I had to be forced into it junior year and my project sucked.

Basically they definitely compare you to people in your school. If you live in the middle of nowhere they’re not going to expect you to make it out to a CC to take courses, or to find a research position to take in the summer, or to have ever heard of AIME.