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

  Advising your students

  ethical character. We don’t want students to do things just because they

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  students in their college search process. These visits do not include an