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    the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on your chances of admission. Field of study We're asking about your
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    number, which is located on the right-hand side of the application portal. ... .S. permanent residents may apply through spring entry. Transcripts: Copies of all of your secondary/high school, college, and university transcripts
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Clubs & activities

    cultural appreciation and scientific investigation of chocolate, and the only group on campus that orders more than 500 pounds of chocolate a year ... , a radio station, student government, and so on. But alongside these
  • Discover / Learn more

    Newsletters

    campus. MIT Daily, from the MIT News Office, offers regular updates on ... on important developments in artificial intelligence, blockchain, the future of work, and technology in general.
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    of advanced research and intellectual enrichment, with a focus on ... a taste of the MIT experience while working on college ... -admission summer programs select only the best students on the basis of merit and are
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For school counselors

    letters on behalf of your applicants. For our advice and tips on writing a ... negative impact on the applicant's chances of admission. Matching a student ... regionalized officer who exclusively presents to your school or area. All of our
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    throughout the world who conduct interviews on behalf of MIT Admissions. We ... [intro]MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of our community
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    MIT's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. We are located on our own ...  staff are speaking for themselves in their blog posts, and not on behalf of ... were once a mainstay of blogs on the open web, but have been largely

  • Policies

    walk of life. Statement on the role of diversity in MIT’s educational ... process of innovation—hands-on work, often carried out in groups, that ... Institute prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of race
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    Social media

    MIT Social Media Hub If you want a snapshot into what all of the different MIT communities/offices/labs/important people/etc are posting, the ... . @MITAdmissions You can also find @MITAdmissions social media accounts on Instagram

  • Schedule your campus visit

    : One of our amazing students will take you on a tour of their favorite places on campus. Info sessions last half an hour, and student-led tours ... In-person info sessions and tours We offer two types of campus visits
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    -secondary classes while they’re still in high school. Many of these programs offer ... of how many classes you may have taken at the university level—even if ... policies on transfer credit.  Broadly speaking, there are three ways to earn
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ... computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of hacking, the definition of hacking descends from a much older tradition of
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    [intro]MIT's dozens of makerspaces, dedicated hands-on classes, and experiential programs give you training in modern means of manufacture: what has ...  mens et manus—mind and hand—puts equal emphasis on theory and practice. The

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part of what makes life at MIT so vibrant.[/intro] The humans of MIT move
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a ... while, we expect to see the results of your standardized tests, transcript
  • Help / Contact

    Visit our office

    : One of our amazing students will take you on a tour of their favorite ... station. You can learn more in the Visit MIT section of our site. If you ... two types of campus visits: Info session and student-led tour: Our
  • Discover / About MIT

    Basic facts

    that end, we seek the best possible community of scholars (and humans ... curated from the latest issue of the MIT Facts book and data from MIT Institutional Research. Elsewhere on our site, you can find current admission