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  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to ... ) 73 questions with Nina W. '23 A Week of UROPing (blog by Jessica Z
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    application is complete, it will first be read by a senior admissions officer ... reading—but there are a few you really need to read. These are the blog ... Than A Job by Ben Jones Applying Sideways by Chris Peterson Bleary
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    First-year learning communities

    . “We take a spring break trip to kind of get to see that year’s topic in ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes, find your way around a new school. We get it, it can be overwhelming
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Essays, activities & academics

    trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area ... get to know you. Remember that this is not a writing test. Be honest, be ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to lending a helping hand. Describe

  • Arts and music

    get to know them is by watching them perform. Enjoy this performance by ... Orchestra, Festival Jazz Ensemble, and Rambax, a Senegalese drumming group, to name a few. Tune in below to watch the MIT Video Game Orchestra in their
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Clubs & activities

    , and get together with your friends to nerd out however your heart ... , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the ... a venue in which to learn and practice (safe) LED prop and fire

  • Next steps

    [intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We hope it helped you get to know MIT and the students that make this place so special. Before you go, we have some final resources for you to take

  • Explore MIT on your own

    [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... from home. Consider this your starting point as you get to know MIT ... —you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    quantity—you don't have to do a million things to get into college. Put your ... for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the ... . Lobbying a senator to amend bad policy changes the world. There are thousands
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How to apply for aid

    provided by the College Board that we use to determine if you qualify for a ... . CSS Profile: a tool provided by the College Board that we use to ... 30 in order to receive a financial aid offer by mid-January. Regular
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there ... , or scoping out the stars sound like a fun way to spend your summer ... that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Veterans

    their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... —especially calculus, the building block for many of our courses—is essential to a ... take a free exam through Schoolhouse to receive a certification
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto ... project-based, and require you to become a creative, skilled maker ... former you get from learning in the classroom, and the latter from making
  • About

    About MIT Admissions

    technology. The students we enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will ... admissions process, as well as our commitment to a level playing field ... , being responsible means acknowledging that we have a moral obligation to
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ... oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly ... -temperature superconducting electromagnet to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful

  • Discover

    We are makers. We are thinkers. We are explorers. In all that we do. The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose to make a better world ... , inventive and artistic, obsessed with numbers, and welcoming to talented
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after their
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    We require an official transcript sent by a school counselor or ... entity. Counselors can submit transcripts to us in three ways: By uploading them directly into the MIT application portal By using a third