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    The MIT community

    Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and even harder to leave."[/intro] The people at MIT The best asset of MIT ... try to put together the best team of students to go through MIT together
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    Getting started

    Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... then to explore, discover new things, and change your mind. What you ... being admitted. Not sure what you want to study yet? Rest assured that
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    relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To ... ) who will contribute to MIT and the world.[/intro] These basic facts are curated from the latest issue of the MIT Facts book and data from MIT
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    Transcripts

    entity. Counselors can submit transcripts to us in three ways: By ... -party service such as Naviance or SCOIR By sending PDFs to admissions ... application portal along with the Secondary School Report. To do this

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    mitadmissions.org often to see the latest from our [annotation note="Our student ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that “MIT is hard to get into, and ... like : As part of getting to know MIT better, all first-year students are
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    Letters of recommendation

     and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... like to ask so that they have as much time as possible to write about you! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of
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    Via email

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    Returning students

    in getting to know you. This includes the secondary school materials ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an ... experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    your life and your expectations around the narrow goal of trying to get ... If you’re thinking about applying to MIT, you're probably curious, love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a
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    First-year learning communities

    process that gets them there.” Once the students work to develop and present their comprehensive plan during the fall semester, they get to ... . “We take a spring break trip to kind of get to see that year’s topic in

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    [intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We hope it helped you get to know MIT and the students that make this place so special. Before you go, we have some final resources for you to take
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    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
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be ... terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest them with
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    What we look for

    quantity—you don't have to do a million things to get into college. Put your ... Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we're not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the
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    Via mail

    find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of
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    Essays, activities & academics

    get to know you. Remember that this is not a writing test. Be honest, be ... trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area ... Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application