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    A brief history of MIT

    that greater opportunities for effective service to her fellow beings ... independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized ... envisioned a new education to unify mens et manus, mind and hand, theory and
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    they have [annotation note="Exceptions may be granted to students in the ... [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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    Inventions & innovations

    discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ...  associated with MIT, including everything from the World Wide Web to Technicolor ... oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    exposure to [annotation note='By this we mean any class that teaches the core ... . While some students may be able to enroll in a class called "Calculus," the classes available to you might be called "A Level Mathematics
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    -time term equivalency to estimate your eligibility. Eligibility will be ... submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the ... who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed at least two terms

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    We are makers. We are thinkers. We are explorers. In all that we do. The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose to make a better world ... , inventive and artistic, obsessed with numbers, and welcoming to talented
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    First-year class profile

    [/annotation] of the Class of 2028. You may also be interested in this post from our ... citizens and excluded from all other categories). All percentages rounded to ... international admitted students by country at
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Arts & music

    exhibitions open to the public each year, there are more ways than ever for you ... of contemporary art, is home to a state-of-the-art black box performing ... -level training to ensembles and classes that you can join even if you’re just a
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    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... can expect to have at least one international experience with research ... more than 40 countries, with most opportunities fully funded by MIT
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    Extracurricular activities

    “right” answers on the MIT application; we want you to be yourself so we ... 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

  • Housing and residence life

    (blog by Shuli J. ’22) Re-orienting (blog by Fatima A. ’25) Guide to ... -campus residence halls. And MIT allows its students to choose which residence they want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our mission

    Our work at MIT Admissions is both bound and inspired by MIT's longstanding commitment to the public interest, a theory we put into practice ... enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will become the leaders and
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    Housing at MIT

    mentors to the undergraduate community by holding study breaks and providing ... the MIT Housing website. Choosing where to live All incoming first-year students are sent the MIT Guide to Residences. The Guide includes data about
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    February Updates & Notes Form

    . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your ... . The February Updates & Notes Form will be available on your application portal in mid-January and should be completed as soon as possible
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    Via mail

    find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... [/intro] Application materials and other 🐌 mail Most documents can be completed and ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not
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    Eating at MIT

    [intro]You can choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to ... setting. [/intro] Everyone prefers to eat differently: alone or together ...  approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to