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FAQ / First-year application
Do I have to send an official college transcript?
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FAQ / First-year application
Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?
Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first -
FAQ / First-year application
Will there be a wait list this year?
Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield"), we admit about 1,400 students. However, it isn -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
What is Splash?
For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft -
FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that -
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FAQ / Transfer
Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?
There's no expectation for you to submit additional documents beyond the required application. If there are other pieces of information that you feel would add important context to your application, you may submit -
FAQ / Interview
What if my interview is waived?
Unfortunately, even with over 3,500 alumni volunteer Educational Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required classes but consider an ideal preparation to include calculus, physics -
Blog / Announcements
MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼
answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning ... you are checking your email (including your spam folder) for regular -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!
space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games ... a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt ... Yellow Team identified was that for guitarists, it's hard to write down -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s 2015! Happy New Year
originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis. But I decided to take a break ... past semester in the Destiny Lounge of Random Hall, an abode for ... unholy amount of Netflix. But we were better off for doing it together, and -
Blog / Admissions
How To Write A College Essay and other things too
Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... change the way you think about writing. I keep Orwell's rules for writing ... . But the same is true for college essays, as Orwell doubtlessly -
Blog / Admissions
Kickoff! and away we go...
for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was ... , at Regionals, they'll compete against a field of dozens for the chance to qualify for the Championship Event in Atlanta. But the competition -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.
finding the information you're looking for is like searching for magnetic ... -colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your ... student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to -
Blog / How to Food
Come together (and eat)
Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering ... dining halls, it's good for all of them. So if you live in Next and you ... for the house (if you're still confused as to why the FSILG houses care -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6
batteries – all things necessary for the light from this paragraph to be ... ’re using a CRT display for whatever reason, the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the invention of the cathode ray tube.) QLED Displays -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz
mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it