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  Athletics & recreation

  Center, which houses an Olympic-size swimming pool, a smaller teaching pool ... center Alumni Pool & Wang Fitness Center, featuring lap and instructional pools, a fitness floor with stationary machines and free weights, a
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Our selection process

  decision is correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  . Homeschooled applicants make up less than 1% of our applicant pool (and less than
• Apply / First-year applicants

  QuestBridge

  Regular Action pools, and you will still qualify for our generous financial
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  [intro]Because of our highly competitive applicant pool, letters of recommendation hold substantial weight in our admissions decisions. A well-written letter for an outstanding applicant can show impressive characteristics

• Policies

  excellence that placed them at the top of our applicant pool. But we strive for
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  photoshopped brochures. And they had a swimming pool! I stood close to the edge of the pool, marveling at its surface, thinking that it was almost ... from one end of the pool to the other on fins, I was still struggling to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  up and down in the water. My classmates and I were in a pool shallow ... from back when I was five or so has me at some pool somewhere - I don ... including diving into a pool measuring nearly 14 feet at its deepest end. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one ... applicant pool; of course it's not fair that there are so few spots for so

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ’s applicant pool looks like. In other words, there are a lot of factors that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  of the applicant pool, this time considering your mid year report. And

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  than the application pool provides. At another institution the priority

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  say. What makes someone stand out in your pool?, others ask. But these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  classes out of our applicant pool, without question. If you’ve been deferred

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  apartment complex’s swimming pool and cool off the hot summer heat, with the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water - the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  laps, but the coach regarded my discretization of the pool's length into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  knowing how to swim. —anonymous learning to swim from a swimming pool. "You can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... Shulman. —Robo-CJ getting thrown into the deep end of a pool after learning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  smooth stone and pools of water surrounding it. Over thousands upon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  applicant pool this round..." and "While we wish that we could offer everyone

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019