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    For school counselors

    interested in reviewing a few of the following pages to help orient you in our ... regionalized officer who exclusively presents to your school or area. All of our ... prepared to speak with you and answer your questions.[/intro] Call us We are
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    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 ... faculty and staff to shape MIT policies and further our mission to make the
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    Veterans

    Requirements, it makes students better prepared to succeed academically at MIT ... their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply
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    First-year learning communities

    to make the world a better place. Terrascope combines all of these ... the field, to talk to people who are affected by that problem, people ... By Julia Davis August 25, 2018 Your first year at MIT can seem like
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    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 ... exposure to [annotation note='By this we mean any class that teaches the core
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    Extracurricular activities

    Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything “right”—down to their extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
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    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
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    Be yourself!

    , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... interest you, both inside and outside of school making sure you're ready to ... them with energy and enthusiasm. We want students to make decisions that
  • 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
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... can expect to have at least one international experience with research ... more than 40 countries, with most opportunities fully funded by MIT
  • 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 ... -campus residence halls. And MIT allows its students to choose which residence they want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    a test by the October test date, and fall entry applicants must take a test by the March test date. School Official Report: To be completed by ... . Remaining documents should be mailed to: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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    Advising your students

    terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest them with energy and enthusiasm. We want students to make decisions that are ... ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our mission

    Our work at MIT Admissions is both bound and inspired by MIT's longstanding commitment to the public interest, a theory we put into practice ... enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will become the leaders and
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized ... envisioned a new education to unify mens et manus, mind and hand, theory and ... applied to the Massachusetts legislature for "an Act of Incorporation of the

  • 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
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    Academic preparation

    be allowed to demonstrate that you are entitled to such credit by ... until after you are admitted to MIT, at which point it is evaluated by the ... areas. To prepare for MIT’s academic program, we recommend that transfer