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  • Apply / Understanding the process

    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
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    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
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Accessing advanced coursework

    be able to get high school (and sometimes college) credit through these ... ’s how to get certified: Learn math on Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers ... shareable link to your Schoolhouse certification transcript. [button_link link="https://schoolhouse.world/certification/get-certified?course=Calculus"]Get

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Veterans

    their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply ... prospective students. While most veterans are eligible to apply for transfer
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Clubs & activities

    club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own, and get together with your friends to nerd out however your heart ... , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the

  • Explore MIT on your own

    [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... from home. Consider this your starting point as you get to know MIT ... get to know MIT Professor Evelyn Wang, who teaches mechanical
  • About

    About MIT Admissions

    to what they imagine might get them into MIT, and we try to remind them ... and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute ... aspire to attend it. As one of our colleagues once wrote, we believe that

  • Request a group tour

    plenty of travel time to get to campus, taking Boston traffic into ... Groups of 6–50 students are welcome to submit a request for a private group ... . Please note this tour is designed to assist prospective undergraduate
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    blogs back in 2004, we had to use external hosting and an external domain name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense ... update our website regularly and strive to keep it as accurate (and
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    WISE 2025

    campus community by working with and getting to know current students and ... rising seniors to learn what it’s like to be an MIT student.[/intro] The ... , including the cost of transportation to and from MIT. We strongly encourage
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto ... former you get from learning in the classroom, and the latter from making things, and from trying to make them work. This "maker education" is at
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    We often get asked if there are particular summer programs students should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend ... . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How to apply for aid

    paint a detailed picture of what kind of aid you’ll need to be able to attend MIT affordably. Three steps to apply for aid. CSS Profile: a tool provided by the College Board that we use to determine if you qualify for a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after their
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    resources to help them get started on entrepreneurial projects of their own ... discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ...  associated with MIT, including everything from the World Wide Web to Technicolor
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    are required to take (or get credit for) two semesters of calculus ... analytic thinking with creative hands-on work to prepare students to solve ... foundation before you come to MIT contributes to your own development, shows us