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Apply / First-year applicants
Essays, activities & academics
—you're doing it wrong. Our questions For the 2025–2026 application, we're asking ... of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it -
Apply / Transfer applicants
Academic preparation
or the ACT for transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing ... . We do this in order to consider all applicants in their best light -
Discover / Life and culture
Housing at MIT
, and videos compiled by the residents about who they are and what they do ... Residential Exploration (REX), where you do even more exploring of the different residence -
Discover / About MIT
Life after MIT
. Here are some of the things they do next.[/intro] Careers Career ... students who don't go directly to graduate school, many do so in the future -
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Getting started
action cycle. Just do what works for you! Application fee or waiver Our -
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About MIT Admissions
we do not take for granted and work very hard to keep. Our Mission The ... realizing our vision, we are guided by several principles that help us do the ... not only equally but equitably on every applicant. However, we do the -
Apply / First-year applicants
First-year eligibility
The first-year application is intended for students who have [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their -
Apply / First-year applicants
Interview
interviews are not usually formal affairs. You do not have to dress up for your -
Discover / The MIT education
MIT’s educational philosophy
[intro]MIT believes the best education occurs when students are self-motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach.[/intro] Our guiding -
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 / Understanding the process
Admissions statistics
. Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not -
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About MITAdmissions.org
name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense ... resource about first-year and transfer admissions. We do not conduct ... expense of the audience don't get the blogs shut down: catchall for doing -
Apply / Understanding the process
What we look for
thinking about problems, you should be excited about doing something to help ... the things they care about. We don’t expect applicants to do a million ... . Our application’s essay question, "Tell us about something you do simply -
Discover / Life and culture
The MIT community
can do is read the blogs and see for yourself. Graduate students There ... nation and the world. Graduate students do not teach undergraduate classes at MIT, but they do serve as academic and social mentors, by leading -
Apply / Preparing for MIT
Academic foundations
that you’re ready to do the work, and helps you make the most of the ... matters is that you are prepared to take, and do well in, a class that ... Core and HASS Requirement as soon as you arrive. We do this through your -
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Advising your students
ethical character. We don’t want students to do things just because they -
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Discover / Life and culture
Eating at MIT
learn to do eventually. There is no right or wrong answer overall, just a -
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Biographical & personal information
. However, we do not share your contact information with them, we reach out on