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    The MIT community

    sense of home. Our undergraduates In any given year there are ~4 ... economic mobility index of its peer schools. Long a home for those who felt ... Institute and they'll probably say "the people." The quality of the MIT

  • Explore MIT on your own

    than 130,000 square feet of makerspaces—and more on the way—MIT supports ... you click any link and watch any video that piques your interest. (And ... on our site, and you'll find those pages linked in the headers. When in
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    For home educators

    [intro]MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of our community ... . Homeschooled applicants make up less than 1% of our applicant pool (and less than
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    Arts & music

    [intro]More than half of all undergraduates take part in arts and ... of contemporary art, is home to a state-of-the-art black box performing ... creativity, both in and out of classes. Some of the many ways you can explore
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    Be yourself!

    better sense of yourself, and being a positive influence on those around ... , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... and capable of in a college application.  As admissions officers, we
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    Life after MIT

    event that takes place every September and typically welcomes hundreds of ... mentorships, and chats over coffee. According to a survey of graduating students ... Tech, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.   However, of the
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    About MITAdmissions.org

     staff are speaking for themselves in their blog posts, and not on behalf of ... MIT's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. We are located on our own ... of home at this domain, so we've just stayed here. This website is a
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    Athletics & recreation

    . About 25% of MIT students participate in varsity athletics, and on average ... , the home of MIT football, lacrosse, and track and field Briggs, O'Brien, and Barry fields, which offer acres of on-campus athletics fields for

  • Policies

    with the Class of 2028, race and ethnicity were not collected on the ... and wish to assert any of your applicable GDPR rights, please contact ... three years of campus crime and fire safety statistics and certain campus
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    Biographical & personal information

    resources on campus. Citizenship Please select the country of your primary ... As you get started on your application, here are a few things that we ... —including communicating with us and registering for standardized tests—so the email you list

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    of clubs, organizations, and activities covering every imaginable topic. Chances are, if you're into something, you can find someone else on campus ... 's the typical newspaper, radio station, and literary journal that you

  • infinite MIT

    students on projects, labs, and papers, you carry on a long tradition of ... and education; a new home for the MIT School of Architecture and ... makerspaces—and more on the way—MIT supports any student interested in making
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    Clubs & activities

    , a radio station, student government, and so on. But alongside these ... cultural appreciation and scientific investigation of chocolate, and the only group on campus that orders more than 500 pounds of chocolate a year

  • Housing and residence life

    experience, and all first-year students live in one of our 10 on ... halls—and others are more alternative, full of murals, cats, and community ... MIT residence halls Sarah C. ’23 takes us on tour of her suite in Burton
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    Extracurricular activities

    about who you are and how you spend your time outside of schoolwork ... , intrigue, and challenge you—not because you think they’ll look impressive on ... extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
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    International applicants

    MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and ... the beginning of their final year of high school, and international ... school outside of the United States, your grades and subjects of study

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part of what makes life at MIT so vibrant.[/intro] The humans of MIT move
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    Letters of recommendation

    —when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... understand that there are different types of schools out there, and you will
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    For school counselors

    letters on behalf of your applicants. For our advice and tips on writing a ... outside of the reading season. You are our professional colleagues, and we ... and mention the name and location of your school. During the reading