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    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    -secondary classes while they’re still in high school. Many of these programs offer ... of how many classes you may have taken at the university level—even if ... transfer credit or advanced standing at MIT. These policies and processes
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    For school counselors

    [intro]Our admissions process is not regionalized, so there is no regionalized officer who exclusively presents to your school or area. All of our ... outside of the reading season. You are our professional colleagues, and we
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    QuestBridge

    application process and apply for four-year scholarships at top U.S. schools ... streamlined application process, the National College Match helps high-achieving, high-school seniors, regardless of citizenship, to apply to QB partner
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    For home educators

    [intro]MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of our community ... . Homeschooled applicants make up less than 1% of our applicant pool (and less than
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    WISE 2025

    financial aid application process. Travel The cost of transportation to and ... -prepared for MIT have at least some exposure calculus and physics by the end of ... admissions decisions for WISE are independent of those made by for first
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

    mentorship. The projects span every stage of the process of academic inquiry, beginning with the drafting of a plan, continuing through the process of ... [intro]One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States
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    information about our admissions process, enrichment programs, and stories from ... future of work, and technology in general.
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Admissions statistics

     determine our admissions process, but they are the result of our process. In our holistic admissions process, we consider quantifications like test scores, but we also ... included in the tables below, despite their centrality to our process. The
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no record. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, students may
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    First-year learning communities

    By Julia Davis August 25, 2018 Your first year at MIT can seem like a whole lot of change happening at once. In the span of a few weeks ... are part of much smaller academic groups, the first-year learning
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    Majors & minors

    learn through programs that are at the leading edge of their field ... best; you are then free to choose from among any of MIT's courses of ... schools MIT is organized into several schools of study: School of
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    passed for the 2025 Transfer Application. Transcripts: Copies of all of ... uploaded within the MIT transfer application. Two letters of recommendation: We recommend that one letter of recommendation come from a math or

  • MIT visits you

    them as well! Check out the list of where we're headed and where we ... cover academics, affordability, campus life, and our application process. There is a Q&A period at the end of session as well. Plan your
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    Letters of recommendation

    We require letters of recommendation from two teachers. We recommend ...  and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    advising at MIT is formally coordinated by the office of Career Advising & ... Institute (e.g. by joining the Educational Council of alumni interviewers), as ... after MIT, as shown by the ~146,000 MIT alumni living around the world

  • Student life at MIT

    ) 73 questions with Nina W. '23 A Week of UROPing (blog by Jessica Z ... likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part

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    We are makers. We are thinkers. We are explorers. In all that we do. The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose to make a better world ... people regardless of where they come from.
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    Other videos

    people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of our favorite videos produced by other offices that highlight the humans of MIT. [embed]https://youtu.be/TA1UX8NCD08[/embed] [embed