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• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... to get the grades you want, and you'll do it, and everything will be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  MIT Transfer applicants will receive their decisions today! All applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email ... college the best they can be. Like most things in life, what you put into

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  fact that you will be competing with your peers for the same jobs. Think ... -electronic tracks like the Tron soundtrack to be very good background music. ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  (or FASAP, or Arts at MIT. It also may be the class with the most names ever!) being the best class ever. All the way back in September, we ... designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  maximizing the opportunity because your intention is to transfer out, you will ... at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made ... necessarily mean likely. The ratio of transfer spaces to transfer applicants is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  not we will use the waitlist this year, and if so how many students we ... students choose to enroll by the May 1 deadline. After that time, we will ... the transfer students we are able to admit. And of course, like in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... a vital part of the MIT community. Among other things, transfers have ... Emily, who many of you interacted with during the transfer admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you ... ’ve learned after a year at MIT is that the standards for failing are so, so ... feel kind of better. The words come out and the fear of being judged and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and ... the place. Then second semester came. I thought I would be okay if I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT require standardized tests for transfer applicants?

  We require the SAT or the ACT from first year and transfer applicants. Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details.
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level of math, whichever meets your ability level) and ... calculus and physics at the college level. Depending on your major, you may
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to send an official college transcript?

  application process will be recorded as "College Transcript" in our database. If you submit an unofficial college transcript, the information will be ... will be required to submit an official college transcript.
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  exam, but a few exams along the way. I would’ve failed another class, if ... point in moving any further. The universe seemed to be telling me that I ... that were meant to be broken. The universe is just teaching the same

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... , our wait list will close, and will not be admitting any additional ... It's been a bit more than two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  things go with the FCC. At that point, we will consider our wait list “closed” and will not be admitting any additional students for the Class of ... bad self. I know it will be great.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014