泰蓝背景提升为大家整理了全美前30顶级学校对于学生背景的要求和看法，希望能够帮助大家申请更进一步，达到自己理想的目标，进入自己理想的大学。
麻生理工大学的活动要求一目了然，极为简单：
http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/part2
Activities
Please use our form, not a resume, to list your activities. There is only enough space to list four things - please choose the four that mean the most to you and tell us a bit about them. This will tell us more about you than any "laundry list" of everything you've ever done in high school.
You are welcome to submit a supplemental resume, but submitting a resume instead of filling out our activity list can hurt you (so don't).
MIT在活动细节解释中，只是简单的指出了请使用他们的专用表格进行填写，明确指出了请阐述4项活动，且不要阐述过多的活动，导致无法从细节中了解你。
虽然在活动一栏如此简单一笔带过，但是泰蓝背景却在推荐信的介绍中发现了更多的细节。
Recommendations: Whom to Ask
MIT requires two letters of recommendation from teachers. One recommendation ("Evaluation A") should be from a math or science teacher, and one ("Evaluation B") should be from a humanities, social science or language teacher.
You should certainly ask a teacher who has taught you in an academic class in high school (i.e. no middle school, and no basket weaving class). Ideally, this will also be a teacher who knows you as more than just a student who does well on all the tests. We find that the best recommendations are written by teachers who know an applicant well as both a student and a person.
Evaluation A potential subjects
·Math
·Biology
·Chemistry
·Physics
·Earth Science
·Environmental Science
·Computer Science
·Engineering
·Technology
·Science Research (as a class)
Evaluation B potential subjects
·English
·History
·Foreign Language
·Classics
·Economics
·Government
·Psychology
·Social Studies
·Geography
MIT在推荐信中，把推荐信明确分为了两个等级，把理工科目直接归为A等级推荐信，文科类被归为了第二等级。从这里可以看出 MIT对于学生的理工科目基础要求其实相当之高。Ideally, this will also be a teacher who knows you as more than just a student who does well on all the tests。这也是一句重点语句，他们希望老师在写推荐信中，了解学生不仅仅是一个高分学生，更希望从全面的人格角度去阐述学生，了解学生的品质。
在FIELD SUTDY 中，我们发现了更多有意思的细节:
Field of Study
We're asking about your preferred field of study because we're curious about what interests you right now—not because we have any quotas. You won't declare your major until the end of your freshman year—there's a lot of time between now and then to explore, discover new things, change your mind.
For this reason, approximately half of our students ultimately major in something entirely different from what they wrote on their application, so we couldn't use this data to predict anything even if we wanted to. Moral of the story: neither writing "theoretical nuclear intergalactic business physics" nor "underwater basket weaving" will give you an edge in the admissions process, so just be honest!
译文：
我们问的是你喜欢的研究领域，因为我们好奇你现在的兴趣是什么，不是因为我们有配额。你在大学一年级结束前不会宣布你的专业——从现在开始到探索，发现新事物，改变你的想法之间有很多的时间。
出于这个原因，我们的学生中大约有一半的学生最终选择了完全不同于他们在申请上写的东西，所以我们不能用这些数据来预测任何事情，即使我们想要。无论是写“理论核星际商业物理”还是“水下编织”都不会让你在录取过程中有优势，所以要诚实!
所以要诚实，要诚实，要诚实，重要的事情说三次。很容易就能看出，申请MIT的首要品质就是真诚，诚实的体现你对于理科的兴趣，展示你们志同道合的兴趣和眼光。
解析：
通过解读以上三段申请材料的准备，泰蓝背景提升为大家总结解析了一下几个材料准备重点：
精而美：明确指出了请列出四项课外活动，进行重点阐述和解释，为什么参加，参加的理由是什么，获得了什么收获，活动能够体现你什么品质，这些品质对你入学有什积极的意义呢？而且，虽然只让列出四项活动，但是这四个活动数量并不少，有可能需要从十个，甚至二十个活动中挑选出来才能让你有内容可以阐述。
理优先：作为全球顶级的理工科类院校,MIT对于理工可的重视在推荐信上就可见一斑，所以请重视你的理科思维和理科成绩，在推荐信的书写中，如果能有理工科的科研经历，甚至实验经历，那么推荐信内容才会显得真实立体，从个人的角度出发，不要用成绩以前盖全，体现整体精神面貌，人格有点，思维方式等等。所以在推荐信的撰写上，一定要慎重考虑，甚至推荐信的书写人也最好慎重选择，能找到理科学科的专家教授更好（条件允许）。
真诚是以后升学，未来发展的最重要品质，没有之一：坦诚面对你的兴趣，在学习领域中MIT学的非常清楚，兴趣爱好没有高低贵贱之分，每一个研究都有属于自己的价值，每个一个爱好都有闪光的地方，每一个发现都能改变世界。但是请你一定要真诚对的说明自己的兴趣爱好，发展目标，学习专业，让MIT招生官能够生动的了解你，且同事被你的真诚所打动。
