What are MITs policies on spending a year in Israel after high school?
A. MIT has been quite cooperative with students who have chosen to spend a year in Israel between high school and college. Please see MIT’s official admissions page on deferring admissions . Additionally, you can find a bit more detail in a post on the admissions office’s blog about gap years here, which even references Israel specifically multiple times. As of December 2003, MIT does not, in general, grant transfer credit for studies in yeshivot and seminaries. In some cases, it may be possible to get credit for courses taken in degree-granting programs in yeshivot and seminaries. Please direct specific queries to the appropriate transfer credit examiners in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
