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• Discover / The MIT education

  The first year

  by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... typically spent taking some General Institute Requirements (GIRs) while ... of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no

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• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  [intro]Because of our highly competitive applicant pool, letters of ... information and impressions we cannot glean from the rest of the application. Try to give a complete sketch of the student and the context of their
• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How much it costs

  education. We offer aid that meets 100% of your demonstrated financial need.[/intro] The big picture The full price of an MIT education is $85,960 for the ... . We offer full-need financial aid, which means we meet 100% of your
• Discover / The MIT education

  Independent Activities Period

  January during which faculty and students are freed from the rigors of ... Johnson, of saving fuel during the energy crisis.']Established in 1971,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering
• Apply / Understanding the process

  First-year class profile

  For the MIT Class of 2028 Some facts and figures about the [annotation note="Class of 2028 data as of August 2024."]1,102 members[/annotation] of the Class of 2028. You may also be interested in this post from our
• Discover / The MIT education

  Undergraduate research

  [intro]One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States ... thousands of projects each year with 94% of MIT graduating seniors conducting ... —redefining the nature of research at MIT. Hundreds of academic papers published
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Getting started

  the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need ... your chances of admission. Field of study We're asking about your preferred field of study because we're curious about what interests you right
• Apply / Parents and educators

  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
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Composite profile for 2024-2027

  Composite profile for the MIT Classes of 2024–2027 In this composite profile, we have averaged the demographic composition of the first-year classes of 2024-2027; i.e., the MIT student body as a current undergraduate
• Discover / Life and culture

  Clubs & activities

  cultural appreciation and scientific investigation of chocolate, and the only group on campus that orders more than 500 pounds of chocolate a year Science Fiction Society, home to the largest open-stacks library of science
• Discover / Learn more

  Other videos

  people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of ... of MIT. [embed]https://youtu.be/TA1UX8NCD08[/embed] [embed
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Essays, activities & academics

  consists of several short response questions and essays designed to help us ... too much—spending a lot of time stressing or strategizing about what ... these short answer essay questions: What field of study appeals to you

• Student life at MIT

  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 of what makes life at MIT so vibrant.[/intro] The humans of MIT move
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a ... while, we expect to see the results of your standardized tests, transcript
• Help / Contact

  Via tesseract

  "That, of course, is the impractical, long way around. We have learned to take short cuts wherever possible." "Sort of like in math?" Meg ... , my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge." Mrs. Who
• Apply / First-year applicants

  International applicants

  MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and ... applying to an American school like MIT works. Some of the information in ...  and local advising centers. Am I international? For the purposes of the
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Be yourself!

  and capable of in a college application.  As admissions officers, we ... the context of your life.  It’s important to think of any college ... place for your next step. This kind of self-reflection isn’t easy, and if
• Apply / Parents and educators

  Advising your students

  Dean of Admissions, Stu Schmill '86, wrote in a blog post: In simple ... think they have to. We don’t want students to take advanced classes out of a sense of competition, rather than the joy of learning. We don’t want
• Help / Contact

  Via email

  about 70,000 emails a year that are answered by a dedicated staff of about four people. We average a response within 24 hours, but the number of