里面是MIT对高中课程学习和EC活动的看法，希望对小孩上理工大学的准备有帮助启发

http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/highschool

Academics

A strong academic foundation in high school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the Institute when you're here. We recommend (please note that these are not "requirements")  that your high school years include the following:

• One year of high school physics
• One year of high school chemistry
• One year of high school biology
• Math, through calculus
• Two years of a foreign language
• Four years of English
• Two years of history and/or social sciences

Overall, you should try to take the most stimulating courses available to you. If your high school doesn't offer courses that challenge you, you may want to explore other options, such as local college extension or summer programs.

MIT OpenCourseWare Highlights for High School is also a resource which highlights MIT courses selected specifically to help you prepare for AP exams, learn more about the skills and concepts you learned in school and get a glimpse of what you'll soon study in college.

Extracurricular Activities

Some students feel so much pressure to get into the "right" college that they want to make sure they do everything "right" - even do the "right" extracurricular activities. Fortunately, the only right answer is to do what's right for you - not what you think is right for us.

Choose your activities because they delight, intrigue and challenge you, not because you think they'll look impressive on your application. Go out of your way to find projects, activities and experiences that stimulate your creativity and leadership, that connect you with peers and adults who bring out your best, that please you so much you don't mind the work involved. Some students find room for many activities; others prefer to concentrate on just a few. Either way, the test for any extracurricular should be whether it makes you happy - whether it feels right for you.

By the same token, some applicants struggle to turn themselves into clones of the "ideal" MIT student - you know, the one who gets triple 800s on the SAT. Fortunately, cloning is still for sheep. What we really want to see on your application is you being you - pursuing the things you love, growing, changing, taking risks, learning from your mistakes, all in your own distinctive way. College is not a costume party; you're not supposed to come dressed as someone else. Instead, college is an intense, irreplaceable four-year opportunity to become more yourself than you've ever been. What you need to show us is that you're ready to try.

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• 再赞一个！佷好的信息 -twoboys_mom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:36:31

• 怎么没地方点赞呢？很有启发。谢谢分享。 -篱笆08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:38:31

• 功课上觉得calculus最难，一般高中不一定有吧。 -linda2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:40:14

• 高中12年级应该都有 -xueshandahai- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:51:26

• 是吧，俺娃还没到。 -linda2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:10:59

• 都有。AP Calculus AB or BC. 然后，12年级有multivariable calculus. -swj2000- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:05:50

• 谢谢，看来是最后的课了。 -linda2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:11:42

• 谢谢藤爸！ -月若无痕- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:44:49

• 太想进藤则必然会去迎合藤；这是个矛盾 -DCH- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:47:13

• 不会，里面说的很清楚：做你自己。No one is perfect。无论是全面发展还是专攻1-2项 -Mich_Agent- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:51:56

• Don't set Teng as a goal. Then you can truly be yourself otherwi -DCH- ♂ (74 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:11:15

• 事在人为，用平常心对待最好 -Mich_Agent- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:54:05

• 太棒了，谢谢分享 -xueshandahai- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 20:50:20

• 点赞，不过 -skyport- ♂ (193 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:03:35

• 不一定要进藤。而是小孩上大学前是不是准备好了，准备好了，AO没有理由拒绝 -Mich_Agent- ♂ (71 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:08:42

• Getting into a college is not a difficult task at all -DCH- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:15:14

• 看好天港 -落城一哥- ♂ (208 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 23:04:33

• 谢谢一哥夸奖。没那么牛 -skyport- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 23:12:11

• 真有 -落城一哥- ♂ (90 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 23:17:41

• 非常非常地赞同。 -小团圆- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/24/2017 postreply 03:29:24

• 不要把他们作为要求，而是作为高中选课和EC的指导，各方面都准备好了自然就录取你了 -Mich_Agent- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:03:47

• 说得挺好，就是有点像鸡汤啊…这种没有准则的挑选，如果根据结果再解释，怎么都有话可说。 -MMMMM06- ♀ (112 bytes) () 03/23/2017 postreply 21:38:55

• 也有道理 -Mich_Agent- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/24/2017 postreply 05:03:38

• 谢分享！感觉be yourself 是很难掌握的说法，孩子完全be himself 基本上不了好学校 -newca- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/24/2017 postreply 05:50:18