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• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there ... anything like that. If you choose to apply to MIT during Early Action, we do not place any limits on where else you may apply, nor do we require you
• Discover / The MIT education

  Independent Activities Period

  regularly scheduled classes to do...whatever they want![/intro] [annotation ... full tuition in either the fall or spring term do not have to pay ... to travel or work or nap. Basically: what you do in the month of
• Apply / First-year applicants

  International applicants

  applicants should do the same. Only accepted students are required to send ... part of the world. We do not try to convert your grades to the American ... against your classmates or students in other parts of the world; we do not
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Our selection process

  -centered process, not a school- or region-centered process. This means that we do not ... applying. We also do not consider legacy/alumni relations in our process. At ... that we do. These blogs will help you "get" what the MIT admissions
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Transcripts

  application portal along with the Secondary School Report. To do this ... application portal to submit transcripts. However, they do have the option to
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Be yourself!

  doing two things: taking the time to really explore things that ... do the work Becoming your best self What you shouldn’t do is build
• Apply / Understanding the process

  What we look for

  enjoy doing. Intensity, curiosity, and excitement In a nutshell, you ... quantity—you don't have to do a million things to get into college. Put your ... about something you do simply for the pleasure of it.) is not a trick
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Letters of recommendation

  school's curriculum and community. Some school counselors do not or cannot ... admitted students do not submit any supplemental recommendations. Applicants ... portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  that we do not require a high school diploma or GED from our applicants. Successful homeschooled applicants We do not have separate requirements for ... . However, we do have some qualities we look for in for homeschooled students
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Transfer credit & advanced standing

  basically like taking the final exam before the class begins. If you do well ... do poorly, you can simply take the class instead.
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  the context of your relationship with the applicant? If you do not know ... feel comfortable and do not shy away from giving us your honest ... entering college a year early, as he now plans to do. I sincerely hope that
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Transfer deadlines & requirements

  required for transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing or ... times, we will consider the highest score achieved in each section. We do
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  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

• Student life at MIT

  (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  and get some recent teacher evaluations. While we do require evaluations
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For parents

  can do to prepare for MIT. These step-by-step guides will help orient
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  WISE 2025

  . Please do not make any travel arrangements on your own. Participants book ... 12th grade. If you do not have access to these courses through your ... ="We do not require you to have taken AP classes or exams prior to WISE, but
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Essays, activities & academics

  —you're doing it wrong. Our questions For the 2024–2025 application, we're asking ... of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it
• 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