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  Summer programs

  your summers in the way that best suits your personal needs and goals. Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there ... the residence halls. However, several partner organizations run small
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  About MIT Admissions

  Our Office The [annotation note="MIT Admissions for short."]MIT Office of Undergraduate Admissions[/annotation] oversees the recruitment and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute
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  Veterans

  forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply Veterans may apply for admission through the same process as other ... MIT, and helps you make the most of the Institute when you’re here
• Discover / The MIT education

  MIT’s educational philosophy

  [intro]MIT believes the best education occurs when students are self ... principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in Boston's Back Bay, much has changed about the MIT education: electric
• Discover / Life and culture

  Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

  experience the hack.[/intro] At MIT, hacking refers to more than breaking into computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of hacking, the definition of hacking descends from a much older tradition of
• Discover / Learn more

  Newsletters

  campus. MIT Daily, from the MIT News Office, offers regular updates on ... . The MIT Technology Review has several newsletters that regularly report on important developments in artificial intelligence, blockchain, the
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Our selection process

  How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... admissions officers, who will summarize it for the Admissions Committee. These summaries, along with your entire application, will then go to the selection
• Discover / The MIT education

  Cross-registration

  [intro]In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the ... note='As the 1949 Lewis Report on the MIT undergraduate education wrote: “the Institute should encourage initiative, promote the spirit of free
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  Be yourself!

  , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... all the information you share with us—your coursework, your essays, what ... the context of your life.  It’s important to think of any college
• Discover / Life and culture

  Athletics & recreation

  [intro]We have the largest Division III athletics program in the ... teams, we offer the largest Division III program in the nation, in ... -America citations, the most of any DIII school in the nation. As a Division III
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Essays, activities & academics

  Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application ... makes you "look best," as opposed to the answers that are honest and easy—you're doing it wrong. Our questions For the 2025–2026 application, we're asking
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  QuestBridge

  Bridge (QB) helps talented, low-income students prepare for the college ... through the National College Match program. We encourage all students who ... applying through the program. About the National College Match As a
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  Academic foundations

  students, veterans of the U.S. military, and applicants who took an extended ... the toughest problems in the world. Building a strong academic ... that you’re ready to do the work, and helps you make the most of the

• Explore MIT on your own

  . Since folks at the Institute are always making, writing, and discovering ... .[/intro] Let's get started At the bottom of each page—starting with this one—you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual
• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How to apply for aid

  Financial Services. You can learn more about the process on their site, but here's a quick summary: Domestic students The following documents help us ... provided by the College Board that we use to determine if you qualify for a
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Transcripts

  uploading them directly into the MIT application portal By using a third ... application portal along with the Secondary School Report. To do this, applicants should enter their counselor’s information into the Recommenders
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  Returning students

  extended break from conventional education, and we value the insights and experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we ... while, we expect to see the results of your standardized tests, transcript
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  WISE 2025

  rising seniors to learn what it’s like to be an MIT student.[/intro] The ... , including the cost of transportation to and from MIT. We strongly encourage ... , or might be the first in their family to attend college. Please note
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  DACA & undocumented applicants

  Arrivals.']DACA-mented[/annotation] applicants alike submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other ... our community as well as outside the Institute. In 2017, MIT's 17th
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Admissions statistics

  beyond the stats already contributed to the MIT's standard Common Data Set ...  determine our admissions process, but they are the result of our process. In our ... included in the tables below, despite their centrality to our process. The