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  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    reading—but there are a few you really need to read. These are the blog ... How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel like your application has entered a black hole. So what really happens
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    our faculty, or at least to become more like them: smart, hardworking ... 't require a password, and its museums and libraries are open to the public ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and
  • 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
  • Help / Contact

    Via email

    , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get about 70,000 emails a year that are answered by a dedicated staff of about four people. We average a response within 24 hours, but the number of
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    school does not have a school counselor, your transcript may be submitted ... to be submitted and processed, we will add it to your application as a ... We require an official transcript sent by a school counselor or
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    Estimate your cost

    a more in-depth review and to determine Pell eligibility you will need ... Calculator is a tool designed by the College Board to help you assess what your ... take no more than 20 minutes of your time. You will need to answer some
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    envisioned a new education to unify mens et manus, mind and hand, theory and ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology," which was to include a museum, a society ... congressman and senator in a state's congressional delegation—to fund colleges
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their secondary education and wish to pursue a bachelor's degree as a full
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    apply to another school during Early Action that does have a restriction ... fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Eating at MIT

    [intro]You can choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to ... learn to do eventually. There is no right or wrong answer overall, just a ... 't use all of their meals can choose to donate them to classmates through a
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a ... or in a non-degree program to brush up on their classroom experience ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the ... year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    [intro]Housing is a very important part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its ... -campus residence halls.[/intro] We believe that students should have a great deal of
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For parents

    you in the process and tell you what you and your child need to know ... the admissions process as a rite of passage—a challenging initiation ... only: finding the right fit. This means finding a community where your
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    MIT to develop a broad base of knowledge across [annotation note ... students are much more likely to succeed at MIT academically when they have ... -calculus, which are designed to lay the groundwork for a calculus course that
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    mentorships, and chats over coffee. According to a survey of graduating students ... , and our alumni are proud of that.  Everything else There's a lot more to ... [intro]As hard as it might be to imagine sometimes, there is life
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

     Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work with other students ... [intro]MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and ... .[/intro] Over the past decade, we have seen a surge in homeschooled applicants
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Creative portfolios

    to you. Please answer a brief questionnaire about your research ... . Nominate your research advisor, mentor, or Principal Investigator to submit a ... play two instruments equally well, you may optionally choose to submit a