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    Independent Activities Period

    regularly scheduled classes to do...whatever they want![/intro] [annotation note='With the unintentional benefit, according to then-President Howard ... ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering

  • 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
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... application is complete, it will first be read by a senior admissions officer ... proper context. Strong applications will then be evaluated by additional
  • 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 ... Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application
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    First-year learning communities

    process that gets them there.” Once the students work to develop and present their comprehensive plan during the fall semester, they get to ... . “We take a spring break trip to kind of get to see that year’s topic in

  • 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 ... get to know MIT Professor Evelyn Wang, who teaches mechanical

  • 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

    club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own, and get together with your friends to nerd out however your heart ... , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we're not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the ... quantity—you don't have to do a million things to get into college. Put your
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    students to Mechanical Engineering (ME) through hands-on classes (taught by ... We often get asked if there are particular summer programs students should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend
  • About

    About MIT Admissions

    to what they imagine might get them into MIT, and we try to remind them ... and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute ... by Stu Schmill '86, Dean of Admissions and Student Financial Services
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    Veterans

    their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply ... prospective students. While most veterans are eligible to apply for transfer
  • 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
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto ... former you get from learning in the classroom, and the latter from making things, and from trying to make them work. This "maker education" is at
  • 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 ... system is designed to ease the transition from high school by giving
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ... resources to help them get started on entrepreneurial projects of their own ...  associated with MIT, including everything from the World Wide Web to Technicolor

  • 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
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    entity. Counselors can submit transcripts to us in three ways: By ... -party service such as Naviance or SCOIR By sending PDFs to admissions ... We require an official transcript sent by a school counselor or