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    Creative portfolios

    permitted per applicant. Portfolio fee and fee waivers The fee to submit each ... SlideRoom portfolio must be in progress to receive a fee waiver; we cannot ... your MIT application. Portfolios must be submitted by the same deadline
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    The following components should be submitted online: Transfer ... test by the March test date. School Official Report: To be completed by ... passed for the 2025 Transfer Application. Transcripts: Copies of all of
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on ... being admitted. Not sure what you want to study yet? Rest assured that
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    For school counselors

    need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any ... always happy to have a professional conversation on the phone, especially ... hope to both learn from you what is happening on the ground in high
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer deadlines & requirements

    electronic form built into the MIT transfer application to request the School ... required for transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing section ... . In order to apply for transfer admission, you must take the required
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during ... Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two ... to estimate your eligibility. Keep in mind that eligibility will be
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    policies on transfer credit.  Broadly speaking, there are three ways to earn ... supporting materials to these departments over the summer before your first year, and the departments will make credit-granting decisions over the
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    Academic preparation

    or the ACT for transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing ... . In order to apply for transfer admission, you must take the required ... areas. To prepare for MIT’s academic program, we recommend that transfer

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    About MIT Admissions

    reality that the vast majority of our applicants will not be offered ... we do not take for granted and work very hard to keep. Our Mission The ... technology. The students we enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

    ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... full tuition in either the fall or spring term do not have to pay ... note='With the unintentional benefit, according to then-President Howard
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    WISE 2025

    rising seniors to learn what it’s like to be an MIT student.[/intro] The ... , or might be the first in their family to attend college. Please note ... territories to be eligible to attend. Program overview WISE begins in the
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    who you are today, who you’d like to become, and why MIT is the right ... , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a better place. It can be tricky to sum up all that you’re passionate about
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    secondary education, but may not apply using the first-year application if they have [annotation note="Exceptions may be granted to students in the ... [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or
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    International applicants

    final grades, and we understand that they will not be available until the ... system, or to find other sorts of equivalence. You will not be competing ... , you may not be familiar with the application process for American
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Veterans

    afford to come to MIT. As a veteran of the U.S. armed forces, you may be ... aid, their financial need will be calculated according to their ... , the most important thing is to be your authentic self. If you have
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    search the world for students who we think will be a good fit at MIT, and ... anything we could tell you would fail to capture it. The next best thing you ... community is the single biggest reason why admitted students enroll, and why
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    ," the classes available to you might be called "A Level Mathematics ... to the MIT education:     https://youtu.be ... courses in these areas may not be well-prepared—or well-matched—for the MIT
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    What we look for

    Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we're not looking ... are also not afraid to fail. When people take risks in life, they learn ... should be invested in the things that really mean something to you (we