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• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  . Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details. Standardized tests are required for every first-year application to MIT. However ... application. We do not have minimum scores for the tests as scores are
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can you mail me materials internationally?

  Due to increasing mail costs and in an effort to be environmentally-conscious, we no longer mail materials internationally, and we do very limited mailing within the U.S. You may however, sign up for our monthly newsletter
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  The transfer application costs $75. Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need
• FAQ / Afford

  What is need-blind admissions?

  MIT's need-blind admissions process ensures that you will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process because of your financial need. Our admissions process is need-blind for all students, foreign and domestic.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... you've discovered my secret: in addition to spending time at home with ... train stations for the past three weeks. It's long, hard work, hence my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  .01, which I'm grateful for since I had a really bad basis in physics and math ... air mattresses and they've come in handy. we host people for lots of ... Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  and enjoy. As for the football: the TV in the background is set to the ... rubbing victory in the face of the losing team for an entire year. I'm not ... day- whatever is in store for you.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  realize... Spring semester so far, the new battle for architect majors in ... in a historical African village for a while, like this: In addition ... Well...if there’s one thing you can know for sure about studying at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid ... the class is in 26-100 and is basically a graduate requirement for over ... infinite corridor is total chaos as tourists and students battle for

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are ... their project in simple terms for the intelligent layperson, and to help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  destination isn't in downtown someplace, you'd probably have to walk for half an hour. I have a friend who's also living in Mountain View for the summer ... for housing in the Bay for my internship this summer. I rang up some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  know that he graduated first? =p). For some reason (to be discussed in ... in the US) in the Japanese society. For example, "MIT" was often ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was ... for the tests to be rescheduled . Upon his graduation in Spring 1936 ... years. He also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, solo, in 1965, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to ... , and I like to think that I speak Japanese (I took it for 3 years in high school and for the last 3 semesters here). In terms of school, I’m a course

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  for 'Our Last Night'-- a post-hardcore band Joey was deeply involved in ... Occasionally as I lie in bed at night puzzling over the hecticness ... math (courses 8 & 18). He's in my fraternity- Sigma Chi- so we live

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US ... "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  Bergen Record wrote: Nobody cuts Mr. Goodman's class. In Robert Goodman ... tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... class a cool place. In recognition, he's been selected as the New Jersey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  ?), well-intentioned development workers saw a need for water in an area with ... 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  for this potentially very useful database. In order to do this, she is ... examples for the points made in Professor Condry's book. Ideally, this ... glasses, and gloves. If Anna Teytelman, a sophomore in Management Science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity ... ... The sign-up sheets for the teams would be in the lobby of the dorm, and ... Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004