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• Discover / Life and culture

  The MIT community

  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 ... anything we could tell you would fail to capture it. The next best thing you
• Discover / About MIT

  Inventions & innovations

   associated with MIT, including everything from the World Wide Web to Technicolor ... detection of gravitational waves reaching the Earth (in collaboration with ... diagnostic tool with the potential to transform research and global public
• Apply / First-year applicants

  QuestBridge

  . Please see the Student Financial Services website for details on how to ... to apply. Financial aid and the National College Match MIT is only ... to MIT directly. In addition to the QB application, you will also need
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Biographical & personal information

  on your application should match the email that you used to create your ... option later in the application. Addresses We want to know your home ... resources on campus. Citizenship Please select the country of your primary
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  , the reader is left feeling the writer is reaching for something to say ... compelling reason to admit someone, so information on the class material does ... . Try to give a complete sketch of the student and the context of their
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  Essays, activities & academics

  Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application ... makes you "look best," as opposed to the answers that are honest and easy ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to lending a helping hand. Describe
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  February Updates & Notes Form

  . The February Updates & Notes Form will be available on your ... after completion of the fall semester (or after completion of the second ... currently attending school; MIT has all of my grades." option on the form
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Veterans

  encourage you to share as much about your military experience on the MIT ... ’s important to you. The essays provide you an opportunity to reflect on your ... their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Be yourself!

  , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... the context of your life.  It’s important to think of any college ... who you are today, who you’d like to become, and why MIT is the right
• Apply / First-year applicants

  First-year eligibility

  they have [annotation note="Exceptions may be granted to students in the ... The first-year application is intended for students who have [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Creative portfolios

  Room.
 For more information on each type of portfolio, please review the ... submitting the Research Supplement via SlideRoom. If you have worked on more ... to submit a letter of recommendation directly through the Slide
• Discover / The MIT education

  The first year

  of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no ... designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after their ... system is designed to ease the transition from high school by giving
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Transfer eligibility

  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 ... apply to transfer to MIT is during your second term of study. Maximum of

• Explore MIT on your own

  new things—whether on campus or off—there's more than enough to explore ... —you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual ... on our site, and you'll find those pages linked in the headers. When in

• infinite MIT

  expanded to over 65 murals in the tunnels and Banana Lounge (26-110) on ... environment. The Metropolitan Storage Warehouse is on track to become a hub for ... mitadmissions.org often to see the latest from our [annotation note="Our student
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  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 ... extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
• Apply / Parents and educators

  Advising your students

  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 ... . We want students to challenge themselves appropriately in the areas
• Discover / About MIT

  A brief history of MIT

  remain open to members of the public. The charter was granted on April 10 ... the United States to [annotation note='You can read her thesis, on kinds ... , and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world
• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How to apply for aid

  Financial Services. You can learn more about the process on their site, but ... provided by the College Board that we use to determine if you qualify for a need-based MIT Scholarship FAFSA: the form you need to fill out to see
• Help / Contact

  Visit our office

  best option to get to the Welcome Center! Depending on where you are ... you to park further out on the Red Line—Alewife, South Station, etc ... .617.253.3400 between 9 AM and 4 PM ET, Monday through Friday. Getting to the Welcome