The MIT Admissions Team

MIT's admissions officers are involved with all aspects of the recruitment process, from conducting information sessions for high school students and their families to reading applications and making admissions decisions. The admissions officers have a wide variety of backgrouds and interests and they look forward to reading and learning more about you during the admissions process.

MIT's Office of Admissions is not regionalized. If you have a question, contact us at admissions@mit.edu.

Favorite Musical Artist: Snow Patrol
Favorite Book: The Harry Potter series
Favoite Quote: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Favorite Musical Artist: Mumford and Sons
Favorite Hack: Solar-powered subway around the Great Dome
Favorite Vacation Spot: Anywhere with undeveloped space, trees and water

Favorite Invention: Dr. Pepper
Favorite Vacation Spot: Scotland
Favorite Quote: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver

Brenna Heintz
Admissions Counselor

Favorite Musical Artist: John Coltrane
Favorite Vacation Spot: Patagonia
Favorite Spot on Campus: Clover Food Truck on Cambridge Street. 
 

Favorite Musical Artist: Journey
Favorite Spot on Campus: Killian Court
Favorite Hack: The weather balloon at the Harvard/Yale game

Favorite Musical Artist: The Rolling Stones
Favorite Hack: Harry Potter's Scar on the Great Dome
Favorite Invention: Starbucks reusable iced beverage to-go cup

Favorite Book: Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Favorite Musical Artist: Atmosphere
Favorite Vacation Spot: Buzios, Brazil

Favorite Book: The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Favorite Hack: Police car on the dome. I respect the classics.
Favorite Quote: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Favorite Book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Favorite Spot on Campus: The Saarinen Chapel
Favorite Hack: In Case of Zombie Attack, Break Glass

Emily Sheldon
Assistant Director of Admissions

Favorite book: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Favorite hack: Tetris on the Green Building
Favorite quote: "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde

Favorite Musical Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Favorite Book: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Favorite Quote: "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E. E. Cummings

Favorite Book: Revolt of the Cockroaches
Favorite Spot on Campus: Killian Court
Favorite Vacation Spot:  Sinaloa, Mexico

Dawn Wendell
Assistant Director of Admissions

Favorite Hack: Firehose Drinking Fountain
Favorite Vacation Spot: New Zealand
Favorite Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Favorite Musical Artist: Radiohead
Favorite Book: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Favorite Hack: R2D2 on the Great Dome

Favorite Spot on Campus: Hayden Library
Favorite Hack: Solar-powered MBTA subway around the Great Dome
Favorite Vacation Spot: Barcelona, Spain