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    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
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    Assistant Director, Special Cohorts

    other MIT offices. How does this role advance the mission and vision of ... entrepreneurial abilities —  even by the standards of MIT students generally —  who will benefit from the unmatched resources of an education at the
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    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
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    About MIT Admissions

    reality that the vast majority of our applicants will not be offered ... ."]MIT Office of Undergraduate Admissions[/annotation] oversees the recruitment and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute
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    Eating at MIT

    eat. Your options If you choose to live in one of the six ... Bon Appétit, offer options for food sensitivities and special diets ... 't use all of their meals can choose to donate them to classmates through a

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    MIT section of our site. The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 5 PM ... . Cambridge traffic is usually awful, the layout of the roads is confusing, and
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    Visit our office

    station. You can learn more in the Visit MIT section of our site. Welcome Center The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday ... usually awful, the layout of the roads is confusing, and, although there is

  • MIT visits you

    them as well! Check out the list of where we're headed below, and we ... are free and open to anyone who would like to attend. They typically ... application process. There is a Q&A period at the end of session as well
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    First-year learning communities

    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 ... students as they go through their first year at MIT. Each of the three
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    and capable of in a college application.  As admissions officers, we open your MIT application without knowing anything about you, and we use ... the context of your life.  It’s important to think of any college
  • 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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    WISE 2024

    , including the cost of transportation to and from MIT. We strongly encourage ... : You must attend high school in the United States or one of its ... financial aid application process. Travel The cost of transportation to and
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Creative portfolios

    Room.
 For more information on each type of portfolio, please review the ... significant research project outside of high school classes may consider ... experience. Include a PDF of your abstract or research poster, if available
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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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    General Institute Requirements

    curriculum and foundation for the rest of your education.[/intro] William ... studies...of the philosopher are often the most beneficent sources of ... of study. They include the: Science core: six foundational courses
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    Inventions & innovations

    of world-changing advancements. These innovations translate the novel discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ... Globe published a ranked list of 150 inventions and discoveries
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    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
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    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