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    Visit our office

    Center The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday ... . Getting to the Welcome Center The MBTA's Red Line is your best option to get ... strongly encourage visitors not to drive to campus. Cambridge traffic is

  • Maps, directions, parking

    MIT section of our site. The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 5 PM ... Line is your best option to get to the Welcome Center! Depending on where ...  other public lots in Kendall Square, it is pretty expensive and unpredictably
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    . You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its ... . It's up to you. Residence halls We have 10 residence halls [annotation ... project and is anticipated to reopen in fall 2025.']in operation
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    that you want what is best for your students. However, there are many ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be ... energy and enthusiasm. We want students to make decisions that are
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    better place. It can be tricky to sum up all that you’re passionate about ... the context of your life.  It’s important to think of any college ... who you are today, who you’d like to become, and why MIT is the right
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Eating at MIT

    learn to do eventually. There is no right or wrong answer overall, just a ... [intro]You can choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to ... setting. [/intro] Everyone prefers to eat differently: alone or together

  • Policies

    such qualified candidates, it is necessary to collect and process certain ... Nondiscrimination policy Privacy policy Accessibility MIT is committed to ... .org is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. In short, you are free to
  • Discover / Learn more

    Books about MIT

    their MIT Press descriptions, but if you don't want to buy them, many are ... , values, and controversies in which the college admissions process is embedded Countless Connecting Threads: MIT's History Revealed through Its
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

    January is entirely up to you. IAP is also the time during which many ... [intro]Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a four-week period in ... regularly scheduled classes to do...whatever they want![/intro] [annotation
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    income is less than $100,000 (with typical assets) are not expected to ... shouldn't keep you out. Our goal is to admit and enroll the best students ... [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT
  • Help / Contact

    Via phone

    Our phone number is 1.617.253.3400. That's it. That's the number you'd call. This probably didn't need to be its own page, but now that it's here, you can watch this true and factual documentary video of what it
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can ... .[/intro] Your first year When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university, not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT
  • Help / Contact

    Via mail

    find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via email. Plus it is green and doesn't kill trees! 🌲🌳🌴 ... related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    spirit is collaboration and cooperation; you can see it all over the ... are very common. MIT is known for its interdisciplinary research ... resilience—because risk leads to failure as often as it leads to success. The
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    [intro]As hard as it might be to imagine sometimes, there is life ... admissions. We believe that there is only one road to—and through—MIT. It is ... world one day as well. It is a point of policy and principle that MIT
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Extracurricular activities

    ’t shape your whole personal context, and our goal is to understand more ... Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything “right”—down to their

  • Next steps

    [intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We hope it helped you get to know MIT and the students that make this place ... about what it’s like to be an MIT student? Send an email to askastudent
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    (RA). What's the difference? Only the dates of the deadlines! It is ... is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two ... period, devoting more time to each application, and 2) it provides
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... application is complete, it will first be read by a senior admissions officer ... and debate an application before it is placed in the admit pile. Student