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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 -
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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 / Classes
Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april
In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... an enriching time for me, and I learned more about what kinds of things ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at -
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 / Academics & Research
done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers
For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more ... adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... of teaching at MIT as well! I’ve been a TA for Single-Variable and -
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 / Challenges
lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!
less a zombie for that. Speaking of which, sleep is very important ... important things include saving this cookie for Selena[/caption] I mention ... , and ended the semester with new ideas for my existing stories and a -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Is This All? how do i live without regret?
, took it for granted, didn't challenge herself enough so she dropped her ... research and just applied to grad school for media studies? Why am I going ... dancing in exchange for smiles and claps from my grandparents. At around -
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