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    February Updates & Notes Form

    . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your ... accurately. Your counselor does not need to mail your midyear grades to us ... . The February Updates & Notes Form will be available on your
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    foundation before you come to MIT contributes to your own development, shows us that you’re ready to do the work, and helps you make the most of the Institute when you’re here.  We aim to make sure that every student we admit
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    test by the March test date. School Official Report: To be completed by ... sure to include your name, date of birth, and application reference ... all of your secondary/high school, college, and university transcripts
  • Help / Contact

    Via email

    , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get about 70,000 emails a year that are answered by a dedicated staff of about ... be patient if we don't respond in realtime."] get back to you as
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Interview

    typically use the email address you provided on your application to contact ... range from 30 minutes to two hours long. Before you meet with your EC ... interviews are not usually formal affairs. You do not have to dress up for your
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    envisioned a new education to unify mens et manus, mind and hand, theory and ... .'](re)committed it[/annotation] to acting in the public interest in perpetuity.  A new ... [intro]In 1865, the founding of MIT established a new kind of
  • 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
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    while, we expect to see the results of your standardized tests, transcript ... in getting to know you. This includes the secondary school materials ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Creative portfolios

    your MIT application. Portfolios must be submitted by the same deadline ... is designed for students who would like their work to be reviewed by ... total. If your work was performed and recorded, you may submit up to 10

  • 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 ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study
  • Discover / The MIT education

    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
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Letters of recommendation

    ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... Social studies Geography How to submit Your school counselor (or ... , social science, or language teacher. We also require materials from your
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    opportunities for you to use your skills for good globally. Some core ... [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... can expect to have at least one international experience with research
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    [intro]As hard as it might be to imagine sometimes, there is life after MIT, as shown by the ~146,000 MIT alumni living around the world ... advising at MIT is formally coordinated by the office of Career Advising &
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    (produced by our research and innovation) MIT also tends to [annotation note ... rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach.[/intro] Our guiding ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in

  • Housing and residence life

    (blog by Shuli J. ’22) Re-orienting (blog by Fatima A. ’25) Guide to ... [intro]Housing is guaranteed on campus your entire undergraduate ... -campus residence halls. And MIT allows its students to choose which residence they