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    Life after MIT

    [intro]As hard as it might be to imagine sometimes, there is life ... admissions. We believe that there is only one road to—and through—MIT. It is ... mission. There is no prescribed path after MIT: it's a choose your own
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    Interview

    About the interview At MIT we don't just want to see how you look on paper; we're interested in the whole person. That's why, whenever possible ... network of over 3,500 MIT graduates around the world who volunteer to meet
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    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... MIT, we try to be as transparent as possible about our admissions ... application is complete, it will first be read by a senior admissions officer
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    A brief history of MIT

    , after the end of the Cold War, it's probably safe to say that the recent ... grant endowed MIT with the resources to construct its earliest academic ... .'](re)committed it[/annotation] to acting in the public interest in perpetuity.  A new
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    February Updates & Notes Form

    application portal in mid-January and should be completed as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester (or after completion of the second ... . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your
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    General Institute Requirements

    specializing in your course(s) of study. It is possible to earn ... practical discovery and improvement.” To achieve this diverse education ... , and social sciences, including three to four in a concentration of your
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    Via tesseract

    learned to take short cuts wherever possible." "Sort of like in math?" Meg ... section of skirt in Mrs. Who's right hand to that in her left, it would be ... took a portion of her white robe in her hands and held it tight. "You
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    Creative portfolios

    portfolio to the reviewer best equipped to take a first look at it. Project ... submitted if they feature work that is both significant to you and relevant to ... to you. Please answer a brief questionnaire about your research
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    Advising your students

    ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be ... possible selves. It could be helping them find enrichment opportunities, or ... terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest them with
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    Essays, activities & academics

    . We see thousands of different transcripts, so it really helps us to ... -reported information (in order to avoid accidental misrepresentation, it might help to ... .). Use one entry only per class. For example, it’s not necessary to use a
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    About MIT Admissions

    aspire to attend it. As one of our colleagues once wrote, we believe that ... it's very difficult to disentangle privilege from opportunity and act ... best we possibly can to consider each student's achievements and
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    Academic foundations

    recommend that you take [annotation note="We have found that it's possible to ... such, it’s difficult for us to provide clear-cut rules that are useful ... .S. who have access to coursework modeled after curricula available in
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    update our website regularly and strive to keep it as accurate (and ... its conversations. We have also always offered the ability to comment ... blogs back in 2004, we had to use external hosting and an external domain
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    Via email

    , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get ... emails tend to spike especially around the application deadlines, so please be patient if we don't respond in realtime."] get back to you as
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    Undergraduate research

    [intro]One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States ... you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands ...  credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your
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    How much it costs

    [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT ... -free. Those who do borrow tend to have debt at graduation lower than the ... salary of $126,438 for graduates entering industry according to the most
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    Letters of recommendation

    like to ask so that they have as much time as possible to write about you! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ...  and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to
  • Discover / Life and culture

    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 ... certain IM skill divisions, it's somewhat more fun to watch than to play