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FAQ / First-year application
Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?
Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first -
FAQ / First-year application
Will there be a wait list this year?
Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield"), we admit about 1,400 students. However, it isn -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
What is Splash?
For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft -
FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?
competition that awards up to $20,000 per team for the best ideas to tackle -
FAQ / Interview
What if my interview is waived?
Unfortunately, even with over 3,500 alumni volunteer Educational Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required classes but consider an ideal preparation to include calculus, physics -
Blog / Challenges
New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done
machine for something Build 3 new things in the makerspaces Travel ... lectures for at least one class Watch 5 Studio Ghibli movies Watch ... something advertised on Dormspam Attend a sporting event for another -
Blog / Travel
[liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues
airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane ... their business in for the entirety of the 6 hour flight. 8:30pm ... enough for dinner. [caption id="attachment_115909" align -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.
appreciated the grading scheme for the class—fixed grade cutoffs with 20 “extra ... extra credit project for this class, I attended a panel where I got to ... ="attachment_112262" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] an assignment for 21W.744 -
Blog / Athletics
Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball
can talk to for help.” Squash student-athlete: “Being a student athlete ... never take for granted.” Favorite sport-related memory? Swimming student ... proud of us for making it to Regionals.” Squash student-athlete: “During -
Blog / MISTI
A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark
that was open past six yesterday. Luckily for me, however, there was a ... than they do for $5 in the MIT vending machines"]can,[/annotation] and ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a -
Blog / Challenges
living away from home lessons learned
year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly -
Blog / Classes
four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule
I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... seeing shooting stars for the first time because we’d gone hundreds of ... data for my thesis right now. It’s involved multiple reinstalls of Python -
Blog / Athletics
Skating or School? Why not both?
have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... -time. Exams and psets I don't have enough time to study for or complete. Classes ... , training. The skating season is year-round, no breaks, hardly any room for -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"
. And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...
find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... those kids that would hide somewhere for six hours with a thick book (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT
went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend ... together—or as back together as we can be until she comes home for Christmas