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• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How much it costs

  [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT education. We offer aid that meets 100% of your demonstrated financial need ... . We offer full-need financial aid, which means we meet 100% of your
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  First-year learning communities

  and need to know,” Ramsay said. ESG is a community in and out of the ... lounge each day really does just create this space where people come to ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes
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  WISE 2025

  ’ll provide you with a participation letter to take back to your school if you need one. What you need for the application There are a few things that ... why here. To best assess a student’s potential fit for the program, we

• Policies

  providing an inclusive and accessible environment. To that end, we have a ...  attribution (give appropriate credit to MIT admissions and the blogger, and provide a link to the ... ), October 2015 A diverse student body is and has long been critical to the

• infinite MIT

  like to be a student here. There are videos to watch, blogs to read ... authentically about what it's like to be a student here. So we encourage you to ... learn from each other.[/intro] When we admit a class of students to MIT
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Be yourself!

  , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... application as a chance to share your personal context: what has shaped you into ... community so much because we don’t just admit individuals, we admit a class
• Apply / First-year applicants

  February Updates & Notes Form

  accurately. Your counselor does not need to mail your midyear grades to us ... quarter, if your school uses a quarter-based system). Trimester schedule If your school uses a trimester schedule, please use your first
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  just didn't bother to put much effort into the recommendation. This is a ... beyond their own self-advocacy.[/intro] A guide to writing evaluations for ... . Try to give a complete sketch of the student and the context of their
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Summer programs

  . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there ... free to attend or (like MIT) offer generous need-based financial aid. MIT ... , or scoping out the stars sound like a fun way to spend your summer
• Apply / First-year applicants

  DACA & undocumented applicants

  consider your (in)ability to pay for MIT in our admissions process."]need ... preservation of DACA and advocating for a pathway to citizenship, and MIT filed ... subcommittee of the Boston Teachers’ Union, has created a resource for applying
• Discover / About MIT

  Inventions & innovations

  oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly ... plane over a sustained, steady flight, thus eliminating the need for ... -temperature superconducting electromagnet to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful
• Help / Contact

  Via mail

  [intro]Although we prefer that you email us if you need us, you will find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not
• Apply / First-year applicants

  QuestBridge

  MIT is proud to be a QuestBridge partner About QuestBridge Quest ... to MIT directly. In addition to the QB application, you will also need ... be emailed to you if you are selected as a finalist. Transcripts
• Apply / Understanding the process

  First-year class profile

  percentages are [annotation note="Except for when a number would round to zero, but is higher than zero, which is indicated by <1%."]rounded to the ... according to the [annotation note='The IPEDS methodology is a federal standard
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Essays, activities & academics

  get to know you. Remember that this is not a writing test. Be honest, be ... too much—spending a lot of time stressing or strategizing about what ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to lending a helping hand. Describe
• Discover / Learn more

  Books about MIT

   by Institute Historian T. F. Peterson, which provides a lively introduction to ... , and impact on the world. Here are some of our favorites: A Widening ... how MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a
• Discover / The MIT education

  Independent Activities Period

  ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... machine to a crash course in stand-up comedy. Other students take the time ... [intro]Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a four-week period in
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Letters of recommendation

   and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... 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
• Apply / First-year applicants

  International applicants

  colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how ... considered by MIT to be an international student. If you are a U.S. citizen or ... , whether you are a domestic applicant or an international applicant does
• Discover / The MIT education

  Majors & minors

  , not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT ... credentialing and more on the substance of what you need to learn to effectively ... chart below to get a quick visual sense of what you can study at MIT, read