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• Apply / First-year applicants

  First-year eligibility

  earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their secondary education and wish to pursue a bachelor's degree as a full ... pursuing a different field of study from the bachelor’s degree you hold. By
• Discover / The MIT education

  The first year

  by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after their ... 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 ... oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly ... -temperature superconducting electromagnet to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Interview

  About the interview At MIT we don't just want to see how you look on ... , we offer an interview with a member of the MIT Educational Council, a network of over 3,500 MIT graduates around the world who volunteer to meet
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Biographical & personal information

  account. And please make sure that it’s an email you’ll have access to ... ask you what you'd like us to call you. If you enter a preferred first ... sent to your home address unless you’ve indicated a mailing address
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

   Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work with other students ... [intro]MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and ... .[/intro] Over the past decade, we have seen a surge in homeschooled applicants
• 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 ... United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and
• Discover / Life and culture

  Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

  [intro]At MIT, "hacks" are performed by students who safely and stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ethics, loosely stated, assert that hacks must do no damage to property or
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Getting started

  Application deadlines Your application must be submitted by November ... Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for
• Discover / The MIT education

  Cross-registration

  [intro]In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the ... .[/annotation] To that end, we have established strong ties with nearby institutions to help our students develop their interests by cross-registering when
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  make decisions, and thus to become fatigued by them, and we can't avoid ... by trivia.” A third reason it's hard to manage decision fatigue is ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Admissions statistics

  people understand complex systems and make informed decisions. So, a few ... beyond the stats already contributed to the MIT's standard Common Data Set. Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Transfer eligibility

  entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the ... who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed at least two terms
• Discover / The MIT education

  Majors & minors

  , not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT ... chart below to get a quick visual sense of what you can study at MIT, read ... confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a ... or in a non-degree program to brush up on their classroom experience ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an
• Apply / Understanding the process

  First-year class profile

  citizens and excluded from all other categories). All percentages rounded to nearest whole number.  The International Students Office has a breakdown of international admitted students by country at
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For school counselors

  always happy to have a professional conversation on the phone, especially ... address at [email protected]. Be sure to identify yourself as a counselor ... applicant would like you to complete a Secondary School Report, they will

• Online info sessions

  together a little virtual-MIT-choose your own-adventure experience to get you ... ="https://mitadmissions.org/explore-on-your-own/"]Get exploring![/button_link] Ask a student Have questions about what it’s like to ... [intro]There are many ways to get to know us, right from the comfort
• Discover / Life and culture

  Arts & music

  of contemporary art, is home to a state-of-the-art black box performing ... -level training to ensembles and classes that you can join even if you’re just a ... Art, just to name a few. The arts have always been an essential part of
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two ... apply to another school during Early Action that does have a restriction