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• Apply / Understanding the process

  What we look for

  enjoy doing. Intensity, curiosity, and excitement In a nutshell, you ... quantity—you don't have to do a million things to get into college. Put your ... about something you do simply for the pleasure of it.) is not a trick
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Letters of recommendation

  school's curriculum and community. Some school counselors do not or cannot ... admitted students do not submit any supplemental recommendations. Applicants ... portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  that we do not require a high school diploma or GED from our applicants. Successful homeschooled applicants We do not have separate requirements for ... . However, we do have some qualities we look for in for homeschooled students
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Transfer credit & advanced standing

  basically like taking the final exam before the class begins. If you do well ... do poorly, you can simply take the class instead.
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  the context of your relationship with the applicant? If you do not know ... feel comfortable and do not shy away from giving us your honest ... entering college a year early, as he now plans to do. I sincerely hope that
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Transfer deadlines & requirements

  transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing or science sections or ... the highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Extracurricular activities

  Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything “right”—down to their extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  and get some recent teacher evaluations. While we do require evaluations
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For parents

  can do to prepare for MIT. These step-by-step guides will help orient
• Pages

  WISE 2025

  . Please do not make any travel arrangements on your own. Participants book ... 12th grade. If you do not have access to these courses through your ... ="We do not require you to have taken AP classes or exams prior to WISE, but
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Academic preparation

  or the ACT for transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing ... . We do this in order to consider all applicants in their best light
• Discover / Life and culture

  Housing at MIT

  , and videos compiled by the residents about who they are and what they do ...  Residential Exploration (REX), where you do even more exploring of the different residence
• Discover / About MIT

  Life after MIT

  . Here are some of the things they do next.[/intro] Careers Career ... students who don't go directly to graduate school, many do so in the future
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Essays, activities & academics

  —you're doing it wrong. Our questions For the 2025–2026 application, we're asking ... of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it
• About

  About MIT Admissions

  we do not take for granted and work very hard to keep. Our Mission The ... realizing our vision, we are guided by several principles that help us do the ... not only equally but equitably on every applicant.  However, we do the
• Apply / First-year applicants

  First-year eligibility

  The first-year application is intended for students who have [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Interview

  interviews are not usually formal affairs. You do not have to dress up for your

• MIT visits you

  [intro]Not everyone can take the time to come to MIT, so we do our best to come to you. We crisscross the U.S. as often as we can, so that you can learn more about MIT and see if it may be right for you
• Discover / The MIT education

  MIT’s educational philosophy

  [intro]MIT believes the best education occurs when students are self-motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach.[/intro] Our guiding
• Discover / Life and culture

  Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

  [intro]At MIT, "hacks" are performed by students who safely and stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ethics, loosely stated, assert that hacks must do no damage to property or