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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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    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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    Academic foundations

    .']the foundations of calculus[/annotation] by the time they graduate. These cumulative ... some physics, chemistry, and/or biology by the end of high school, which ... students, veterans of the U.S. military, and applicants who took an extended
  • 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
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    First-year class profile

    publishes a breakdown of international students by country. U.S. citizens ... For the MIT Class of 2029 Some facts and figures about the [annotation note="Class of 2029 data as of the enrolled student census conducted
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    Visit our office

    station. You can learn more in the Visit MIT section of our site. If you ... two types of campus visits: Info session and student-led tour: Our info sessions are hosted by admissions officers who share details about
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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 ... independent of those made by for first-year admissions, and whether or not you

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    Admissions at MIT Welcome Center MIT Admissions offers two types of ... hosted by admissions officers who share details about academics, campus life, the application process, and financial aid. A student-led campus
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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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    information about our admissions process, enrichment programs, and stories from ... future of work, and technology in general.
  • 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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    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

    .S. permanent residents may apply through spring entry. Transcripts: Copies of all of your secondary/high school, college, and university transcripts should be uploaded within the MIT transfer application. Two letters of
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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
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    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.