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  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT education. We offer aid that meets 100% of your demonstrated financial need ... . We offer full-need financial aid, which means we meet 100% of your
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Essays, activities & academics

    get to know you. Remember that this is not a writing test. Be honest, be ... too much—spending a lot of time stressing or strategizing about what ... these short answer essay questions: What field of study appeals to you
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Clubs & activities

    , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the ... a venue in which to learn and practice (safe) LED prop and fire ... club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own
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    First-year learning communities

    and need to know,” Ramsay said. ESG is a community in and out of the ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes ... . These groups help to provide a close-knit community and academic environment to
  • 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
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for ... the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    QuestBridge

    MIT is proud to be a QuestBridge partner About QuestBridge Quest ... to MIT directly. In addition to the QB application, you will also need ... be emailed to you if you are selected as a finalist. Transcripts
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to
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    WISE 2025

    ’ll provide you with a participation letter to take back to your school if you need one. What you need for the application There are a few things that ... why here. To best assess a student’s potential fit for the program, we
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how ... considered by MIT to be an international student. If you are a U.S. citizen or ... , whether you are a domestic applicant or an international applicant does
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    mentorships, and chats over coffee. According to a survey of graduating students ... to graduate school. These and other data, including popular fields ... , and our alumni are proud of that.  Everything else There's a lot more to
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    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 ... pursuing a different field of study from the bachelor’s degree you hold. By
  • 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 ... who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed at least two terms
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    -motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach.[/intro] Our guiding principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    -temperature superconducting electromagnet to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful ... oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly ... plane over a sustained, steady flight, thus eliminating the need for
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    Admissions videos

    released, and making a video to announce Pi Day became an unexpected ... the country to be shown at meetings for prospective students for a ... by faculty of the need to work ethically in the production of science

  • infinite MIT

    like to be a student here. There are videos to watch, blogs to read ... authentically about what it's like to be a student here. So we encourage you to ... learn from each other.[/intro] When we admit a class of students to MIT
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there ... free to attend or (like MIT) offer generous need-based financial aid. MIT ... , or scoping out the stars sound like a fun way to spend your summer